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Turn any YouTube video into a 2-minute read.

Structured summaries with key takeaways and action items. Stop scrubbing through 40-minute videos for the one thing you needed.

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How I Made $1M in 12 Months as a Solo Founder
Alex Hormozi · 34 min video → 2 min read
Key Takeaways3
  1. 01Revenue came from selling a $3,000 service before building software — validation before code.
  2. 0280% of growth came from one channel (cold outbound), not trying five things at once.
  3. 03He nearly quit at month 4 when MRR was only $8K. The unlock was raising prices 3x.
Action Items2
  • List 3 services you could sell manually before building the product.
  • Pick one acquisition channel and commit to it for 90 days.
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How it works

How it works

01
Paste

Paste a link

Any YouTube video with captions. Lectures, podcasts, tutorials, interviews — all work.

youtube.com/watch?v=a8B3kP9
⌘ + V
02
Distill

AI reads the transcript

We extract the full transcript and distill it into structured takeaways, a narrative summary, and concrete action items.

Takeaway 1
Takeaway 2
Takeaway 3
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Decide

Read in 2 minutes

Get the full picture without the filler. Know if the video is worth your time before you commit to it.

2:00read time
Original
42:18
Vydcut
2:00
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What you get

Not just a wall of text — a structured learning toolkit.

Structured summaries

Every video becomes the same shape: takeaways, narrative summary, action items. Skimmable in seconds, deep when you want.

Key Takeaways
Narrative Summary
Action Items

Audio Summaries

Pro

2-minute audio version for walks or commutes. Like having someone brief you on the video.

Chrome Extension

Summarize button right on YouTube. Alt+S shortcut. No tab switching needed.

Searchable history

Pro

Every summary saved, searchable, exportable to Notion, PDF, or Markdown.

What did Naval say about leverage?
The Almanack chapter 4 · 8 mo ago
Naval on JRE · 2 mo ago
Naval interview Tim Ferriss · 3 wk ago

Keyboard-first

Built for people who paste, skim, save, move on. Every action has a shortcut.

⌘KOpen
⌘↵Summarize
SSave
EExport

Export & History

Send summaries to Notion, download as PDF. Full search across everything you've summarized.

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Built for

People who'd rather read than scrub.

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Students
Lecture playlists, condensed before exams.
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Founders
Founder podcasts in 2 minutes, not 3 hours.
🔬
Researchers
Conference talks, indexed and searchable.
✦
Curious people
Watch less. Learn more. Move on.
Chrome Extension

Summarize without leaving YouTube

Install the Vydcut Chrome extension and get a ✂️ Summarize button on every YouTube video page. One click — summary slides in from the side. No tab switching, no URL copying. Just click and learn.

✓One-click summarize on any YouTube video
✓Side panel with takeaways — no tab switching
✓Keyboard shortcut: Alt+S
✓Offline cache — instant results for seen videos
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Key Takeaways
1.Start with services, not SaaS...
2.Use your unique advantages...
3.Consistency beats talent...
Action Items
→Identify 3 local businesses...
Pricing

Pricing

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  • Key takeaways + summary
  • Action items
  • Chrome extension
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  • Audio summaries
  • Full history & search
  • Export to PDF & Notion
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FAQ

Questions

We work from the video's actual transcript, not auto-generated guesses. The AI extracts and structures what was said — it doesn't hallucinate new content. That said, no summary replaces watching the full thing if precision matters.
Any video with captions (auto-generated or uploaded). That covers the vast majority of YouTube. If a video has no transcript available, we'll let you know.
You could paste a transcript into ChatGPT and prompt it yourself. Vydcut does that in one click — with consistent formatting, action items, audio summaries, history, and a Chrome extension. It's the difference between cooking from scratch and ordering delivery.
Yes. No contracts, no hoops. Cancel from your account settings and you keep access until the end of your billing period.
We store your summaries so you can search and revisit them. We don't sell your data or use it to train models. Delete your account and everything goes with it.
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