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Hover any YouTube thumbnail and Precap tells you what the video actually delivers: the answer to the title's question, three key points and a clickbait score, in the video's own language. Free to start, no account, no setup.
I'm Victor, an electrical engineering & computer science student who builds things on the side.
I'm exactly the person who clicks "I tried the $1,600 phone for 30 days"… and 18 minutes later, usually when I should be studying, learns the answer is "it's fine, I guess." 🙃
Precap started as a weekend project to fix that for myself. You hover over any YouTube thumbnail and see what the video actually delivers – before you click:
→ the answer to the question in the title
→ three concrete key points
→ a clickbait score (with a one-line "here's what it really delivers")
I showed it to a few friends, they kept using it, so… here we are. 🚀
Things I cared about:
• No account, no setup – install, hover, done
• Any language – the summary is always in the video's language
• Privacy – Precap only looks at a video when you click its button. No tracking, no history, no ads
• Free to start – 10 summaries, then 3 a day. Popular videos are instant because summaries are shared (and don't count)
• Want unlimited? Precap Pro is 6.99 € once for a whole year. No subscription – I'm tired of subscriptions too 🙃 (Or plug in your own free Gemini key.)
Fun fact from building it: YouTube now AI-dubs videos into other languages – that broke my language detection for days and made Arabic summaries pop up for English tech reviews 😅
I'm building this solo and for fun, so I'd genuinely love your feedback!
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About Precap on Product Hunt
“YouTube summaries before you click”
Precap was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #336 on the daily leaderboard. Hover any YouTube thumbnail and Precap tells you what the video actually delivers: the answer to the title's question, three key points and a clickbait score, in the video's own language. Free to start, no account, no setup.
Precap was featured in Chrome Extensions (52.9k followers), Artificial Intelligence (483k followers) and YouTube (17k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 157.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Precap?
Precap was hunted by Victor. 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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Victor
Hey all 👋
I'm Victor, an electrical engineering & computer science student who builds things on the side.
I'm exactly the person who clicks "I tried the $1,600 phone for 30 days"… and 18 minutes later, usually when I should be studying, learns the answer is "it's fine, I guess." 🙃
Precap started as a weekend project to fix that for myself. You hover over any YouTube thumbnail and see what the video actually delivers – before you click:
→ the answer to the question in the title
→ three concrete key points
→ a clickbait score (with a one-line "here's what it really delivers")
I showed it to a few friends, they kept using it, so… here we are. 🚀
Things I cared about:
• No account, no setup – install, hover, done
• Any language – the summary is always in the video's language
• Privacy – Precap only looks at a video when you click its button. No tracking, no history, no ads
• Free to start – 10 summaries, then 3 a day. Popular videos are instant because summaries are shared (and don't count)
• Want unlimited? Precap Pro is 6.99 € once for a whole year. No subscription – I'm tired of subscriptions too 🙃 (Or plug in your own free Gemini key.)
Fun fact from building it: YouTube now AI-dubs videos into other languages – that broke my language detection for days and made Arabic summaries pop up for English tech reviews 😅
I'm building this solo and for fun, so I'd genuinely love your feedback!