u/Aggravating-Soft-381

Prismiq

We’ve been building an AI-powered learning/study tool using Claude focused on turning content into:

• Summaries
• Notes
• Flashcards
• Quizzes
• Glossaries

Current formats:
✅ PDFs
✅ Websites
✅ Images / notes

Main problem:
👉 YouTube is still our biggest technical gap.

The challenges we’re running into:

• Long lecture handling
• Better transcript/context retention
• Accuracy across long-form educational videos
• Chunking without losing important concepts
• Maintaining useful flashcards/glossary quality from video content
• Cost efficiency while keeping output quality high

We’ve tested multiple approaches, but YouTube feels significantly harder than PDFs/websites because of transcript inconsistency + context loss.

Would really appreciate insight from others building with Claude or similar LLM workflows:

• Best strategies for long YouTube transcript chunking?
• How are you handling transcript cleaning + structure?
• Better methods for concept retention across long videos?
• Prompt engineering ideas for study-quality outputs instead of shallow summaries?
• Cost/performance balance suggestions?

We’re less focused on “quick summaries” and more focused on:
Helping users actually learn faster.

If anyone here has tackled similar workflows, architecture ideas or lessons would genuinely help a lot.

Prismiq

We’ve used a lot of AI study tools lately, and even when they summarize lectures…

We still ended up doing too much manually.

Things that felt missing:

• Better flashcards
• Glossaries
• Quiz systems
• Real study retention

So we started building Prismiq.

Current mission:
Turn lectures, notes, and content into something easier to study.

Biggest thing we’re still improving:
👉 YouTube lectures

Students:
What would actually make a study AI tool useful enough for daily use?

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Prismiq

We’ve been building an AI-powered learning/study tool using Claude focused on turning content into:

• Summaries
• Notes
• Flashcards
• Quizzes
• Glossaries

Current formats:
✅ PDFs
✅ Websites
✅ Images / notes

Main problem:
👉 YouTube is still our biggest technical gap.

The challenges we’re running into:

• Long lecture handling
• Better transcript/context retention
• Accuracy across long-form educational videos
• Chunking without losing important concepts
• Maintaining useful flashcards/glossary quality from video content
• Cost efficiency while keeping output quality high

We’ve tested multiple approaches, but YouTube feels significantly harder than PDFs/websites because of transcript inconsistency + context loss.

https://preview.redd.it/52dryejs2a0h1.png?width=1026&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e997afbd7dc26ae26517296b4930ad4b4010c5f

https://preview.redd.it/sn95sqvs2a0h1.png?width=894&format=png&auto=webp&s=9788ff83aee5ffe0f4a2a8112364011b72fc2b96

Would really appreciate insight from others building with Claude or similar LLM workflows:

• Best strategies for long YouTube transcript chunking?
• How are you handling transcript cleaning + structure?
• Better methods for concept retention across long videos?
• Prompt engineering ideas for study-quality outputs instead of shallow summaries?
• Cost/performance balance suggestions?

We’re less focused on “quick summaries” and more focused on:
Helping users actually learn faster.

If anyone here has tackled similar workflows, architecture ideas or lessons would genuinely help a lot.

Prismiq

After trying multiple AI tools for lectures, study notes, and productivity, we kept noticing the same problem:

Most tools summarize well…
But they often stop there.

We still had to:

• Rework notes manually
• Create better flashcards
• Look up difficult concepts
• Use multiple apps

That gap made us start building Prismiq.

Goal:
Turn content into actual learning tools:

• Notes
• Flashcards
• Quizzes
• Glossaries

PDFs, websites, and images are working well so far.

Main thing we’re actively improving:
👉 Better YouTube handling

Would genuinely love honest feedback from people who use tools like this:
What do current AI summarizers still get wrong?

https://preview.redd.it/sn70b4dy0a0h1.png?width=1026&format=png&auto=webp&s=c06757479ffd8ac51c99ada5f814a50c0ff408c1

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https://prismiqai.vercel.app/

We’ve tried a lot of AI tools for studying especially for YouTube lectures, PDFs, and notes and we kept running into the same issue:

Most tools are good at summarizing…
but they don’t really help much with learning.

The biggest gaps we kept noticing:

• Long YouTube lectures still take too much time
• Summaries often miss key concepts
• Flashcards feel generic
• Almost no proper glossary for difficult terms
• Too many tools for different tasks
• Pricing is often too high for students

So we started building "Prismiq" an AI learning workflow focused more on helping people actually study, not just summarize.

Current focus:

• Summaries
• Notes
• Flashcards
• Quizzes
• Glossaries
• PDFs / Websites / Images

We’re still actively improving YouTube handling (probably the hardest part), but instead of waiting for “perfect,” we wanted real feedback early.

If you use AI tools for learning/productivity:

• What frustrates you most?
• What’s still missing?
• What would actually make this useful daily?

Try it, roast it, break it honest feedback matters more than hype right now.