Lookie AI — A faster way to absorb knowledge from YouTube

👋🏻 Hi Product Hunt community! I'm Steven, the founder of Lookie AI. Lookie is a productivity tool that turns YouTube into your personal knowledge bank! Like many of you, I often turn to YouTube for everything—whether it's travel tips, finding great places to eat, or learning something new for work. But I feel two major pain points during this process: 👉 Pain point 1: It takes a lot of time to gather useful knowledge from videos. 👉 Pain point 2: I always had to open a separate notes app to store and manage the information. Enter Lookie, by sharing the video with Lookie in a single click, you get: 📝 Preview & Summary within Youtube: Lookie generates a summary and preview for the long videos you want to consume, so you don’t have to spend hours consuming content. Quickly grasp the key information from the video, cutting out the clutter. ⚡Save information with Highlights: Using the highlights in Lookie, you can save the important information from the video in a structured way, making sure you are always a click away from the information you absorbed. 🤖 AI Chat bot for the video: Long videos often leave you with some questions, and Lookie’s AI chat bot for the video would be there for the rescue. Once you’ve shared the video with Lookie, you can ask the AI chatbot any question from the video, and you will have your answers right at your fingertips. 🌍 Consume global content: With Lookie’s AI, language is no barrier when it comes to Youtube videos. It supports translations from 200+ languages, allowing you to gather as much information as you can, surpassing the language barrier. Till now, Lookie has been in private beta, and we have had 3500+ users who are using it to save time, and learn more! 🧠 Students are using Lookie to absorb knowledge from long videos in lesser time, and managing all of it efficiently in a single app. 🧳 People travelling abroad are using it to quickly find the best places to visit, by consuming local videos on the go. 👔 Busy professionals are using Lookie to consume videos to learn more about their market, and brush up their skills by consuming longer videos in almost 1/4th time. With Lookie, we hope to make your YouTube experience not just about watching, but also about creating meaningful knowledge. We are live on both Play Store and Apple Store, and I’d love if you can give Lookie a try and let us know how you like it! https://onelink.to/lookie-ai To celebrate our Product Hunt launch, we're offering a special discount on our premium plan for a limited time—don’t miss out! I'd love to hear your valuable feedback and will work quickly to improve the product based on your suggestions :) Make YouTube your brain! ⚡🧠

This sure is a very useful tool, and from my first test, the summarization works well. I tested the Android app, and there are currently bugs and missing features, e.g., the language selector and translate feature do not work, and I can't switch between short, medium and detailed summaries.

I might be late but better late than never!... Congratulations on the launch, this looks useful. I will be definitely checking it out

Hi team! Great app that saves tons of time! I used to watch long professional videos and sometimes It is often very difficult to perceive and structure information in your head in order to extract the most important points without spending hours on it. Great job! Congrats 👏

Congratulations on your launch @future_oh! As a big consumer of YouTube, I'm really looking forward to trying this out. Very interesting idea!

Very useful for people like me who watched videos for learning! Congratulations on your launch! Is there a plan to be able to save or bookmark videos within the app, as well as export the answers to PDF?

The description for Lookie Ai sounds phenomenal and would truly like to try the iOS app. Two things have halted me wanting to use it - no regular email account option and not iPadOS native unfortunately. Hopefully these two are on a roadmap? Super happy to see the reception you’re getting, this does sound quite promising!

Lookie AI sounds like a great tool for summarizing lengthy podcasts and educational content! Do we have features to create and manage YouTube playlists as well? Kudos to @future_oh and the team on the launch!

Hey @future_oh, Lookie sounds like a game-changer for anyone who frequently turns to YouTube for learning and inspiration. The ability to generate previews and summaries directly within YouTube is a huge time-saver, especially for those of us who find ourselves deep diving into lengthy videos. The highlight feature seems perfect for keeping track of key insights without juggling multiple apps—finally, a solution to the chaos of endless note-taking! And the AI chatbot? Genius. Having instant answers to questions from the video content is a feature I didn't know I needed until now. Plus, the language translation capability opens up a whole new world of content previously inaccessible. Can’t wait to give Lookie a spin and see how it enhances my YouTube experience. Congratulations on the launch, and here's to transforming YouTube into a smarter learning hub! 🚀

This is so cool. It will enable knowledge workers to declutter the information overload they feel due to excess use of Internet and absorb only the relevant info.

Question: Is it a chat with YouTube videos app?

Hi, @future_oh, would love to know if you're planning to expand to languages other than English as well? Asking this because a few friends on mine who are preparing for competitive examinations often refer to videos in their regional languages. Congrats to the whole team on the launch👏

Congratulations on the launch! I could see this saving me heaps of time! Do plan to add support for exporting to other notetaking apps like Notion or Obsidian? It'd be cool to combine notes from Lookie with my existing notetaking app!

Can you also „save” some key insights? I have tons of pages with notes and I’m not sure anymore from which source those notes are😂

A Browser "APP" would be great ::: I hardly ever consume video on my mobile , but seems like an AWESOME product , I actually created something very similar for my own need using Python , but this is better & has good features ::: Well Done :::

It's a really cool product Amazing! I can't believe I can check the information accurately while watching YouTube! Thank you and respect you for making the products that not only me but also many people need! It's the best product I've ever seen ❤️ Congratulations on your launch! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Lookie will save a lot of time. Can't wait to explore more. Congrats on the launch. Good luck!

👋 Hi everyone! As someone who often uses YouTube to learn new things, I’ve always found it tough to keep track of the useful information I come across in long videos. I’d end up pausing, rewinding, and juggling between multiple apps to take notes, which got pretty frustrating. That’s what led me to help design Lookie—a tool meant to simplify this whole process by giving you a summary of the video and a way to save the key points. I wanted to build something that could cut down the time I spent gathering information and make it easier to remember what I learned. I'd love to hear if others have had similar struggles with learning from YouTube and how you manage it! 😊

Seems like a very daily usage product specially helping cut the streaming time without impacting the details and learnings required. I hope this brings fortune to its users and the makers. All the very best Team!

Hey Steven, How does the AI handle technical or specialized content when generating summaries? Are there any plans to integrate with other video platforms beyond YouTube? Congrats on the launch!