u/Thomasperge

At work we share a lot of YouTube videos. Demos, presentations, talks. Nobody watches them and we always miss important things.

It was creating so much confusion in the team. People would come to meetings without watching the video, we would spend 20 minutes explaining something that was already in there. It became a real problem.

Found YouShort and we use it now for everything. You type your question about the video and it answers you directly. No more excuses for not knowing what was in it. Thought it might help some of you too.

DM me if you want the link.

Google announced "Ask YouTube" at Google I/O this afternoon. You type a question directly in YouTube search, and instead of getting a list of videos, it pulls the answers from multiple videos and shows you a comparison directly in the results.

That's basically what YouShort does but at a bigger scale.

I've been working on this for months. Building the extension, finding early users, doing collabs to get the first downloads. And then Google wakes up one morning and ships the same thing in 10 minutes at their keynote.

At least now I know I was building the right thing 😅

The idea came from a simple problem : I watch a lot of YouTube tutorials and every time I have a question I have to scrub through the whole video to find the answer. It was killing me.

So I built YouShort. It's a Chrome extension that sits next to the video. You type your question, it answers and tells you exactly where in the video the info is.

Did a collab with an Instagram page a week ago, 200 downloads since then which I didn't expect at all.

Dropped the link in the comments if anyone's curious.