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Skipper AI — YouTube Sponsor Skip
Skip YT sponsor segments with YouTube's built-in Gemini AI
Skipper AI automatically detects sponsor segments in newly uploaded YouTube videos by leveraging YouTube's built-in Ask Gemini feature. When community timestamps aren't available yet, it fills the gap and automatically falls back to SponsorBlock once they are.
Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Jagdish, the maker of Skipper AI.
The idea came from a simple frustration.
I love SponsorBlock and still use it every day, but it can't skip sponsor segments on newly uploaded videos because community timestamps don't exist yet.
I started wondering:
What if YouTube's own "Ask Gemini" feature could identify sponsor segments during that gap?
That weekend experiment eventually became Skipper AI.
Instead of running my own LLM (and paying for inference on every video), Skipper AI leverages YouTube's built-in Ask Gemini feature whenever it's available, then automatically falls back to SponsorBlock once community timestamps exist.
The project is completely open source because I wanted people to be able to inspect the implementation, suggest improvements, and contribute.
Some things I'd especially love feedback on:
- Detection accuracy
- UI/UX
- Edge cases where it skips too much or misses sponsor segments
- Ideas for improving the overall experience
I've already received some fantastic feedback from Reddit and Medium, and several features on the roadmap came directly from those discussions.
Thanks for checking it out! I'm happy to answer any technical questions about the implementation or the architecture.
About Skipper AI — YouTube Sponsor Skip on Product Hunt
“Skip YT sponsor segments with YouTube's built-in Gemini AI”
Skipper AI — YouTube Sponsor Skip was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #157 on the daily leaderboard. Skipper AI automatically detects sponsor segments in newly uploaded YouTube videos by leveraging YouTube's built-in Ask Gemini feature. When community timestamps aren't available yet, it fills the gap and automatically falls back to SponsorBlock once they are.
On the analytics side, Skipper AI — YouTube Sponsor Skip competes within Chrome Extensions, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 643k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Skipper AI — YouTube Sponsor Skip performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Skipper AI — YouTube Sponsor Skip?
Skipper AI — YouTube Sponsor Skip was hunted by Jagdish pal. 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.
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