Let me start by saying, I’m no dev. Just vibe coding my way through the many ideas that pop into my head.
This one started because I’d often find myself watching YouTube videos and spotting something interesting, a grinder, maybe a coffee machine I hadn’t seen before (I’m a bit of a coffee nerd). And then I’d go down the rabbit hole trying to figure out what that product was.
So I built ScanTube to solve that itch. It scans YouTube videos, reads the video header/description and uses AI (in the back) to identify products, it then spits out direct amazon link of said products for those of us with acquisition syndrome.
Since it runs on AI, there’s an underlying cost involved. I wanted to keep it free to use, so the most natural way to offset that was by generating affiliate links instead of doing the whole sub model. That way, users don’t pay anything extra, and I can keep it running (hopefully)
Tell me what you think, interesting, lame, feedback, tips on improvement - anything at all.
Right now its only published for US, UK and Canada.
Cheers!
danc2050•9mo ago
I have an extension as well that generates affiliate links in Amazon. Though I love the idea and think it's neat, I would highly doubt you will recoup the AI costs given the affiliate percentage on most items.
Scantubeai•9mo ago
This one started because I’d often find myself watching YouTube videos and spotting something interesting, a grinder, maybe a coffee machine I hadn’t seen before (I’m a bit of a coffee nerd). And then I’d go down the rabbit hole trying to figure out what that product was.
So I built ScanTube to solve that itch. It scans YouTube videos, reads the video header/description and uses AI (in the back) to identify products, it then spits out direct amazon link of said products for those of us with acquisition syndrome.
Since it runs on AI, there’s an underlying cost involved. I wanted to keep it free to use, so the most natural way to offset that was by generating affiliate links instead of doing the whole sub model. That way, users don’t pay anything extra, and I can keep it running (hopefully)
Check it out: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/igbkefccdbflmhmmfhc...
Tell me what you think, interesting, lame, feedback, tips on improvement - anything at all.
Right now its only published for US, UK and Canada.
Cheers!