vidskiller

youtube intelligence engine. 16 AI templates that extract actionable output from any video. code, playbooks, bias audits, agent skills. free at

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

built a tool that watches youtube videos (not just the transcript) and extracts different types of structured output depending on what you need.

16 templates: code extraction, bias detection, playbook building, agent skill specs. free to try

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

@0xZane_ would love to see what you’re doing with it! thanks for connecting

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

built a tool that watches youtube videos (not just the transcript) and extracts different types of structured output depending on what you need.

16 templates: code extraction, bias detection, playbook building, agent skill specs. free to try

[Zane @0xZane_]

@vidskiller Useful for content analysis

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

@venturetwins lol incredible things happening

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@Codie_Sanchez Excellent point! Scary how good voice agents are getting

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

@yashhq_22 very well put! a lot happening so quickly

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

@gregisenberg Great work, would love to see more of what you’re cooking up

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

@leap_xyz ❤️❤️😭

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

KEY FINDING:

Chamath admitted to a mistake in Nov 2021 of not de-risking his portfolio sufficiently, despite signals from "best capital allocators" like Musk and Bezos, because he confused "growing fame" with "growing skill," highlighting how even top investors succumb to ego.

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

ran a bias audit on a crypto video with 500K views
findings... trust score came back 2.8/10

the information asymmetry in crypto YT is wild. built a tool to quantify it 😎

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

ran knowledge extraction on a trading video... the AI caught the speaker claiming their model 'smashed all benchmarks' while the on-screen data showed it lost in 5 out of 9 categories

🥴🤨🤔

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

the math on watching youtube tutorials

average tutorial: 15 min
pausing to copy commands: +10 min
rewinding to catch config values: +8 min
googling what you missed: +12 min
total: 45 min for 15 min of content

or: paste URL → 40 seconds → everything extracted, copy-paste ready

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

KEY FINDING:

◆ Emergence of "agentic payments" via platforms like Stripe, enabling AI agents to issue virtual cards for transactions (e.g., ordering lunch), signals direct financial integration of autonomous agents into real-world commerce, moving beyond mere info processing.

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

weird use case i didn't plan for but people keep doing:

watching a strategy video where someone explains how they do something, then running Skill Seed on it

it extracts the decision logic and YAML workflow specs, basically converts "how i do X" videos into agent skill cards

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

KEY FINDING:

◆ The most critical factor for YT success, often overlooked by creators, is selecting a topic with high "viral probability" (audience demand/curiosity triggers), as even perfect SEO, retention, and thumbnails are useless if nobody is searching for that topic.

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

most YT "AI summary" tools read the transcript

the problem: in a 15 min tutorial, about 40% of the useful information is only shown on screen

terminal commands, config files, folder structures, UI clicks, error messages
none of that is in the transcript

vidskiller solves it ❤️‍🔥

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

The Key Findings feature surfaces unexpected insights to the top of most analyses. Free to try at vidskiller now

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

KEY FINDING:

◆ YouTube's algorithm now prioritizes "satisfaction over retention," meaning it cares more about whether a viewer stays on the platform after your video, rather than just how long they watched your specific video.

more YT insights below 📼❤️

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

◆ "Niche quilting" is highlighted as a highly effective new strategy where creators find viral video formats from other niches and adapt them to their own topic, as copying direct competitors is now a "path to nowhere."

[vidskiller @vidskiller]

Most YouTube creators are optimizing the wrong metrics in 2026.

Watch time is dead. The algorithm now rewards Audience Retention Velocity in the first 15 seconds + comment velocity. I’ve seen channels 3x CTR by fixing just this.

Who wants the framework? 👇