MyLens AI instantly turns any YouTube video into an interactive AI timeline of key moments. You can see all the key parts of long videos at a glance, click to only watch what matters most, and skip the noise. You can even expand sections or dive deeper into any parts with AI. It is a smarter way to watch and understand any YouTube content 10X faster.
👋 Hey Product Hunt!
I’m Ardalan, one of the co-founders of MyLens AI. We’ve been playing around with this idea for a while, and today we’re finally sharing it — AI Timelines for YouTube videos.
YouTube is huge — full of amazing talks, podcasts, interviews, and deep dives. But most of us don’t have time to sit through hours of video every day.
We wanted a way to remove the unnecessary sections and help people watch and understand key parts 10× faster — to see what are the key topics inside the video first and then jump into just the parts that matter to them — watch a few minutes here and there to get the main points quickly.
So we built this:
Paste any YouTube link, and MyLens AI instantly creates an interactive timeline of the video’s key moments.
You can:
🧠 Click any point to get the AI citation and jump to that exact moment on YouTube
🔍 Expand sections to reveal more context or insights
🎯 Drill Down to go deeper and understand each part with details.
It’s been surprisingly fun and insightful to use — perfect for professionals, teams, researchers, and educators who learn and share knowledge through video.
Would love to know what you think — or drop a long video link and we’ll show you how it looks as an AI Timeline.
— Ardalan & the MyLens Team
Great idea! It would be awesome if you could also extract a concise summary and key facts.
it will save us a lots of time. But how it will understand which part of the video is important or not ?
This is a real nice touch , What i fear , it can be replaced by a small app in the notebooklm/google ai studio in future. I hope it will not happen.
Huge congrats on the launch, this is so cool. The idea is super imaginative: I can even imagine it turning my screen recordings into a “memory index” so that, together with an AI agent, I could have a personal assistant with a timeline of my own memories.
Tried this earlier and it actually surprised me. I’m always jumping through long videos, and this saved me a bunch of time without me even trying. It’s the kind of thing you start using once and then wonder why it wasn’t around sooner.
Does MyLens AI adapt to different video styles? For example educational videos, interviews and storytelling videos all have very different pacing. I’m wondering if the system adjusts its timeline logic based on the type of content or if it treats all videos the same.
How does MyLens AI decide which moments in a video are actually ‘important’? Does it understand the context of the conversation, or is it mainly looking for topic changes and keywords?
Btw, congrats on the launch!
I tried it on a talk I saved a while back, and it did help me get the main parts faster. I usually forget half the things I want to watch, so this made it easier to catch up. I’m wondering how it works with longer podcasts too. Could be useful for that.
Can MyLens AI handle really long videos, like 3–4 hour podcasts? And does the timeline stay smooth, or does it get too crowded with too many key moments?
A question for you: When a video jumps between topics a lot (like podcasts that go off-track every 2 minutes) how does MyLens AI keep the timeline clean and not messy? Does it group similar parts together or treat every small tangent as a key moment?
Congrats on the launch 👏
Most videos are full of stuff we don’t need, and this helped me skip all that without feeling bad about it. Nice to see someone actually breaking the pattern for once.
I watch a lot of tech videos and most of them drag on forever. This helped me jump to the parts I actually care about. I can see myself using this when I’m in a hurry.
I don’t always have the time to sit through long videos, so this helped me see what’s inside without wasting my evening. I’d like to see how it works with news clips too. Could be helpful for that.
You know what, MyLens for Youtube gave me a bit of a shock in a good way. I tried it on a long video I’d been avoiding for days and I got what I needed in minutes. It just makes watching stuff feel lighter, not a big task. Honestly, fair play to you lot for making something that actually takes stress off people.
Congratulations on the launch 👏
MyLens for YouTube brings real clarity to long-form content this is a smart and practical upgrade for anyone who learns through video. Excited to see it grow.
I always lose track in long videos, so something that shows the main parts is really lil my pain. Does it work the same for videos that have no talking like game videos or travel vlogs?
How does MyLens AI decide which moments in a video are ‘key’? Is it analyzing the transcript, visual cues or a mix of both? And does the timeline get more accurate over time as people interact with it?
I watch a lot of long videos, and I never finish them because I get bored trying to find the good parts.
This makes it so much easier to just see what matters. I can see myself using this a lot.
This is kinda cool, not gonna lie. Long YouTube videos drain my energy 😂 so being able to jump to the important parts actually sounds useful.
I am excited how accurate it with different type of video.
