Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into step-by-step guides

Re:Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into st... by jghn on Sunday April 21, 2024 @12:08PM (#40106845)

As someone who can’t stand the modern trend away from text and towards video, I can’t praise this idea enough. The number of circumstances where a video is better than text with some clarifying pictures is quite small

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Re:Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into st... by mavamaarten on Sunday April 21, 2024 @01:04PM (#40107312)

Yeah. The only way to find some written instructions these days is searching for reddit specifically. Which I'm not a big fan of, either.

I've had multiple instances where I had a simple issue with zero decent Google results, and a YouTube result with literally the exact question I had in the title. I had to sift through 12 minutes of "like and subscribe", a dude clicking around in various screens mumbling some stuff... I would have been very happy with a simple blog post

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Re:Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into st... by aka_sh on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:32PM (#40108511)

Totally agree with you on that. I hope this lives up to your expectations. Thank you!

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Re:Show HN: I made a website that converts YT videos into st... by SoftTalker on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:42PM (#40108592)

100% agree. Video can be helpful for supplementary illustration, to show exactly how to orient parts in an assembly, etc. but at the cost of (often) sitting through a lot of rambling monologue that is not.

I haven't tried this yet but it would be helpful if each step included a link to the spot in the video where that step is shown, so that in case you need it it's easy to find.

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