Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

Looks cool, love work in this direction. I wonder how learning rates w this would compare to taking notes on paper like in a traditional lecture, which some studies show improves learning [0].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;why-writing-by-hand-is-better-for-memory-and-learning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;why-writing-by-ha...</a>

Really neat idea actually! I love the landing page, both the interactive part and particularly the visual style. One thing that I would note though, is that scrolling down, I expected the images to be interactive since they blend in with the rest of the page and look like interactive elements. I would either try to make it more obvious that they are example images, or actually make them interactive

I tried signing up for the free trial subscription, and am starting to regret it.<p>I successfully entered my credit card details (4 times), yet it still says I don&#x27;t have an active subscription. So besides not being able to try this app, there is also no way to cancel my automatic payments, which starts on Jan 18.<p>After fixing this onboarding problem, I suggest making it possible to try without giving any personal information. (I expected the video player on the landing page to be functional, but I guess just the note section is.)<p>Also there are many typos on the site. Like &quot;loged in as&quot;

1. It would be nice if there was a short video, gif, or webm showing TubePen working. I see the image examples and they are nice, but seeing it &quot;in motion&quot; would be a nice reassurance before signing up.<p>2. I use brave browser on mobile to watch youtube, so videos automatically set to m.youtube.com&#x2F;whatever. In order for me to try TubePem on mobile I had to drop the leading &quot;m&quot; subdomain <i>and</i> switch youtube to TubePen. Not sure if you could get things working with the subdomain m.tubepen.com, but it might be nice.<p>Anyway, cool idea. I hope it does well. :)

What I&#x27;d like from a site like this is to be quizzed on the videos I watch, right after watching and maybe a few days after. I think that would have a large effect on learning.

Congrats on launch. I see many people learning on YouTube, that might be useful tool. Probably you can easily integrate it with LLM and generate summary and quizzes based on videos

Love the concept—TubePen is super cool! A couple of quick thoughts:<p>1. Make it so we can just paste the video URL instead of editing it ourselves. Way easier. 2. Let people try it without logging in first. Login walls are hurt conversions!<p>Seriously, though, this has so much potential. Can’t wait to see where it goes!

looks great. I made a similar app called Scribe where you can highlight passages of the transcript. It&#x27;s working on the web but also as an iOS app. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appblit.com&#x2F;scribe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appblit.com&#x2F;scribe</a><p>To solve the server IP sometimes being blocked by YouTube, the app fetches the transcripts in the browser.

I don&#x27;t get it. nothing on the landing page &quot;works&quot;? what&#x27;s going on here?

nice!-&gt; how well does the url replacement work across different browsers and devices?

neat