Focal

Know what a YouTube video is about before you’re hooked. Personal YouTube Video Gatekeeper. Save time on YouTube.

[Focal @usefocal]

We just shipped something you're going to use every single time you open YouTube

Hover any thumbnail → instant Watch / Skim / Skip verdict, no click required

your feed will never feel the same.

[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.

[Focal @usefocal]

@PaddyG96 Focal can tell you if the video is worth your time before you’re hooked.

[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

[Focal @usefocal]

We're live on tinylaunch

[Daniel @_enodaniel]

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

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[Daniel @_enodaniel]

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