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Building @usefocal and

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

Hover cards are live on Focal 🎉

Verdict on every YouTube thumbnail before you click. scroll your feed, skip the bad ones, never waste another afternoon.

this is the update i've been most excited to ship. Hope you love it as much as i do.😀

[Focal @usefocal]

A critical bug in our summary pipeline has been fixed.

You can now get your summary and watch verdicts as you browse YouTube.

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

Check out Focal on Peerlist and leave an upvote.

Focal: Youtube Summarizer & Gatekeeper by Steven Daniel

https://t.co/jedO8lKdha

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

This is limiting God.

Light mechanics ≠ Workings of God.

[Viral Gospel @viralgospelhq]

Pastor Emmanuel Iren illustrates how to receive God's word using physics.
This is so powerful!

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

Focal would have told you that before watching the video save you the time.

[Paddy Galloway @PaddyG96]

Ok I just watched the video. It’s bad.

Intro doesn’t deliver on title. No story, directionless. Sloppy captions with mistakes. With all due respect as it is a first video.

Will be an interesting test to see if a great title can carry a mediocre video.

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

My Brain Turns YouTube Into a Black Hole. So I Built Focal.

https://t.co/E24W2KPgVG

[tinylaunch @tinylaunch]

Here are the latest top ranking launches.

July 6th–July 12th
🥇 Karmy
🥈 FlowGroove @berlogabob
🥉 Focal @_enodaniel

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

I built something I genuinely needed.

I kept opening YouTube videos, watching 10 minutes, then realizing they were just filler dressed up as content. Same info repeated 4 times, 3-minute intros, nothing I couldn't have gotten in 2 sentences.

So I built Focal. You paste a video (or just hit the extension button on YouTube), it reads the transcript and tells you: WATCH, SKIM, or SKIP — with actual reasons why. Timestamped bullets, density score, the moments that actually matter.

3 days into launch on TinyLaunch and people are using it way more than I expected. Turns out a lot of us have the same relationship with YouTube.

If you've ever watched a 20-minute video and felt robbed — go try it. And if you like what we're doing, an upvote on TinyLaunch would genuinely mean a lot right now, it's early days.

🔗 https://t.co/K1TnzVPRYQ

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

I built something I genuinely needed.

I kept opening YouTube videos, watching 10 minutes, then realizing they were just filler dressed up as content. Same info repeated 4 times, 3-minute intros, nothing I couldn't have gotten in 2 sentences.

So I built Focal. You paste a video (or just hit the extension button on YouTube), it reads the transcript and tells you: WATCH, SKIM, or SKIP — with actual reasons why. Timestamped bullets, density score, the moments that actually matter.

3 days into launch on TinyLaunch and people are using it way more than I expected. Turns out a lot of us have the same relationship with YouTube.

If you've ever watched a 20-minute video and felt robbed — go try it. And if you like what we're doing, an upvote on TinyLaunch would genuinely mean a lot right now, it's early days.

🔗 https://t.co/K1TnzVPRYQ

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

We're live on tinylaunch

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

Check out Focal on https://t.co/lBpQCvQW9k

https://t.co/2nTNQMjVQP

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

Check out Focal on https://t.co/lBpQCvQW9k

https://t.co/2nTNQMjVQP

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

Check out Focal on https://t.co/lBpQCvQW9k

https://t.co/2nTNQMjVQP

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

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[Daniel @_enodaniel]

https://t.co/IlByf44HoM

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

@vitaliidodonov MRR

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

@lucaspatiri_ UGC

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

and we're live!!

With voxnotes, your thoughts are actually private by default.

Check it out now. https://t.co/VmL1VsTcKK

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

I'm back.

Here's what happened while i was away.

- looked into voxnotes code critically and found a mess; a consequence of iterating over features with Claude Code.

so I cleaned it up with the following prompt in plan mode.
"use 'npx fallow' output to audit the state of the code."

After reviewing the plan and implementation, the maintainability score (defined by fallow) increased from 83% to 90%. I'm okay with that.

What's next: remove complications in the sync feature.

- started building Niche Intelligence: a solution that helps indie hackers find opportuinities within a niche based on data. Launching Soon.

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

Here's what we believe:

Most apps hide the AI processing your voice. We're putting it in your hands.

Choose your Whisper model. Know exactly what's running. Own the tradeoff.

Privacy isn't a feature. It's the foundation.

Launch coming soon. Stay close.

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

Something's coming to VoxNotes.

Before we launch, we wanted to make sure you actually control the AI running on your device.

Privacy Mode will let you choose your Whisper model. Tiny to Large. Speed to accuracy. All on-device.

Your data, your tradeoff, your call.