I built a tool to fight YouTube clickbait with AI summaries

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Hi HN, I built this to solve my own problem: wasting time on clickbait YouTube videos that bury one minute of value in a 20-minute runtime. My solution is Peekatube, a simple tool that gets you the key info first. - The Core Feature: It pulls a video's transcript and generates an AI summary so you know if it's worth watching. - It's Fast: With the help of a proxy and gemini-2.5-flash-lite, getting the full transcript and summary takes only 3-4 seconds on average. This is a live beta. The ultimate goal is to build this into a Chrome extension that works right on the YouTube homepage. I would love to hear your brutally honest feedback. What's the one thing you'd add or change? I'll be here all day to answer questions. Thanks!

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