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Play Saver
Watch Smarter, Reclaim Your Time
Do you watch videos, lectures, or tutorials at 1.5x or 2x speed? Have you ever wondered exactly how much of your life you're getting back by doing so? Play Saver is a lightweight, effortless extension that automatically calculates and tracks the time you save by watching any web video at faster playback speeds.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Farhad, the maker behind Play Saver.
The Inspiration:
Like many of you here, I’m obsessed with optimizing my time. I have a habit of watching coding tutorials, courses, and long podcasts at 1.5x or 2x speed. I always knew it was a great productivity hack, but recently I got curious about the actual math: Exactly how much of my life am I getting back? Is it just a few hours a month, or entire days over a year?
I couldn't find a simple tool to calculate this, so I built Play Saver to scratch my own itch.
What it does:
Play Saver is an ultra-lightweight (~32KB) Chrome extension that sits quietly in the background. Whenever you watch a video at a faster playback speed on almost any platform (YouTube, Coursera, Vimeo, etc.), it automatically calculates your "reclaimed time" down to the exact second.
A few things I prioritized while building it:
Real-time feedback: It features an optional live on-screen overlay so you can watch the seconds you are saving tick up in real-time. It’s a great little dopamine hit to keep you motivated during long courses!
Zero bloat: I wanted it to be frictionless, so it uses practically zero browser resources.
100% Privacy: All the math and tracking happens strictly locally on your machine. I don't collect or see any of your data.
This is my very first time officially launching a Chrome extension, and I'm really excited to share it with this community.
I would absolutely love to hear your feedback, roast my code/UI, or tell me what features I should add for V2. I'll be hanging out in the comments all day!
What is your default playback speed, and what does your "time saved" score look like today? ⏱️
About Play Saver on Product Hunt
“Watch Smarter, Reclaim Your Time”
Play Saver was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #148 on the daily leaderboard. Do you watch videos, lectures, or tutorials at 1.5x or 2x speed? Have you ever wondered exactly how much of your life you're getting back by doing so? Play Saver is a lightweight, effortless extension that automatically calculates and tracks the time you save by watching any web video at faster playback speeds.
On the analytics side, Play Saver competes within Chrome Extensions, Productivity and Time Tracking — topics that collectively have 715.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Play Saver performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Play Saver?
Play Saver was hunted by Farhad Hossain. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Play Saver including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Farhad Hossain