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Show HN: Sidenote – a web app to take timestamped notes on YouTube videos

by emgo on 11/5/20, 9:25 PM with 7 comments

  • by emgo on 11/5/20, 9:27 PM

    Hi all, I'm a long-time lurker, first-time poster. I just finished the MVP of my quarantine project, a web app to take notes with timestamps on YouTube videos, now online at https://sidenote.me

    This is something I use for myself to create my own summaries of conference talks and content-rich videos, also so that I can easily jump back to the moment of the video that’s referred in my notes. Here is an example: https://sidenote.me/note/kFedP0DrC6la/how-i-study-languages-...

    For now it’s just a little tool I built for myself, and I decided to open it up for others to create and share their notes as well if they find it useful.

    Given that I'm not selling anything, I haven’t figure out yet how to grow a user base and even less how to monetize it. If anyone has ideas about that, please share.

    Thanks for reading up until now, all feedback is welcome!

  • by siddienahar on 11/6/20, 8:54 AM

    Congratulations on building and launching SideNote. You should also checkout https://www.tuberslab.com/ which is a browser extension that does exactly what SideNote do.

    The added benefit of using TubersLab is I don't have to take the YouTube video to new web app, I just get the ability right there.

  • by mapster on 11/7/20, 5:57 AM

    Very neat! I made a similar app called vidinotes - there is a review on YT about it

  • by purplecats on 11/6/20, 6:52 AM

    seems to work well. how do you source the index for a video?