[NewUser76312]

Hey this is really cool, I literally had the same idea about a month ago but ultimately decided to not pursue it. Glad someone else did.

A few quick Qs -

1) Do you use the available auto-generated transcripts from youtube? Or do you do any audio parsing? I know transcripts aren't always available.

2) Do you have any plans to monetize in some way, do you think it would be possible? It's definitely a neat product but a tad generic and replicable, so I'm curious.

[stong1]

1.) We do no TTS of our own. We either use the original transcripts uploaded manually by the YouTuber or we use the auto-generated ones supplied by Google.

2.) No, I plan to keep it free as the operational costs are relatively minimal.

[NewUser76312]

Thanks for your response. Yeah that's nice and simple. I wonder how much you'll burn keeping it up for free, are we talking like on the order of $20/mo? If you use models like 4o-mini it might even be less, that thing is insanely cheap and not terrible. Cheers