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Show HN: PDF Export YouTube Transcriptions

cristyg0101 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:48:02 +0000

made a small tool some time ago to extract transcripts from YouTube videos, later there was a need to download them, so I added PDF export. pretty barebones, but good for saving/sharing transcripts without having to copy/paste into a doc. Would appreciate feedback particularly in terms of formatting for longer videos.

check it here: https://pelicantools.app/tools/youtube-to-transcript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543052

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Notes about a random free project I did 30 days ago (yt video transcriptions)

cristyg0101 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:30:58 +0000

So about one month ago I did setup a fairly simple youtube transcription website, I have been vibe coding it for around 2 days and shipped the initial version;

The whole thing about it is because I want to crack the SEO game once for all and Im changing my strategy by offering useful tools to people.

All my previous attempts were focused on making the next useless blog where i generated articles with AI; that Google would ban after one week.

After 30 days my website is still indexed and live on google, and for now I consider it a win.

But besides the other projects that I built in past years, this is actually being used by people; for this Im really glad some people use the website by a random guy on the internet, its not exorbitant usage at the moment I get around 5 to 10 youtube transcriptions per day.

So the cool thing that Im experiencing with it now is the observability layer I have implemented inside it;

The whole stack is fairly simple Sveltekit + shadcn + python backend support;

For people that dont know: observability is a wide topic that encompasses all the ways you can trace the behavior and the way a software is running; usually to catch bugs before they become a problem for many users;

Im using sentry.io with the python sdk; since the most sensible part is the process where the backend goes to ask google for the youtube video and gets it transcription; many things can go wrong there;

Even by using known libraries you still get confronted with un-chaught exceptions edge cases and dead ends.

So my main use case for observability is to improve it on the go; all the super mega software engineers that want to dunk on me please do it, this is just a random project nobody pays me for so I do it my way, so I believe its perfectly normal to ship not a 100% tested software that I can improve over time;

The whole project has 0 integration and unit tests;

for the curious: https://pelicantools.app/tools/youtube-to-transcript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401003

Points: 2

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New comment by cristyg0101 in "Show HN: Extendable API Gateway Written in Go"

cristyg0101 — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:52:34 +0000

interesting idea

New comment by cristyg0101 in "Ask HN: What AI tools are you using every day?"

cristyg0101 — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:12:31 +0000

perplexity

New comment by cristyg0101 in "Ask HN: Im a back end dev, how do you go from designing the UI with AI?"

cristyg0101 — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:40:39 +0000

for sure I do know the basics, but you dont spin up html css bloat, that later becomes a nightmare to maintain, I tend to want to make frontends with web components, and each frameworks provides their own

New comment by cristyg0101 in "Ask HN: Im a back end dev, how do you go from designing the UI with AI?"

cristyg0101 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:55:49 +0000

so basically you write everything up from scrath without using any UI kits?

New comment by cristyg0101 in "Ask HN: Im a back end dev, how do you go from designing the UI with AI?"

cristyg0101 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:45:09 +0000

what is your usual workflow? if you have to start from scratch?

New comment by cristyg0101 in "Ask HN: Im a back end dev, how do you go from designing the UI with AI?"

cristyg0101 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:21:23 +0000

The way I do it today is:

1. Find a UI kit ready, shadcn / shadcn-svelte

2. Define my fonts and borders and theme <- My design

3. Implement the business

But in that second step there might be much more to do.

Ask HN: Im a back end dev, how do you go from designing the UI with AI?

cristyg0101 — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:56:52 +0000

As I was saying Im a backend dev, I lose my mind writing frontend code, given the power of the new designing tools, what is the typical workflow me as somebody not very good at design to make an UI and then implement it as a front end?

Lets say we use claude design, or the google tool.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145787

Points: 3

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YouTube to Transcript, timestamped video transcriptions

cristyg0101 — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:44:42 +0000

Article URL: https://pelicantools.app/tools/youtube-to-transcript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134051

Points: 1

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New comment by cristyg0101 in "Browser made for AI coding agents – playwright or pencil.dev alternative [video]"

cristyg0101 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:54:16 +0000

nice thats something I was looking for actually not in this form but still good enough!

New comment by cristyg0101 in "The Internet Used to Feel Smaller"

cristyg0101 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:40:16 +0000

great point! It really feels like that, for me personally last years Ive been basically only via X, Facebook, Instagram.

And the general idea is that we got used to absorb content passively, instead of looking for it actively.

New comment by cristyg0101 in "Ask HN: What would you like to be working on?"

cristyg0101 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:18:28 +0000

what does exactly A universal remote control for shared spaces, mean?

New comment by cristyg0101 in "Ask HN: What would you like to be working on?"

cristyg0101 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:15:26 +0000

idk

New comment by cristyg0101 in "Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?"

cristyg0101 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:07:01 +0000

I tipically use Sonnet 4.6 to have new ideas on how to develop my existing ideas, and iterate over them, I find it perfect for this.

New comment by cristyg0101 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

cristyg0101 — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:33:39 +0000

Currently developing https://pelicantools.app, a collection of tools to rework YouTube. Any YouTube video can be transcribed to an elegant text or a complete article.

If you're a creator, researcher or developer looking to reap the rewards of a video without consuming it fully, then it's helpful.

Whole thing is up and running on vercel.

It's a work in progress — would be great to get some input!