Built Scribely — Turn Any YouTube Video into Handwritten Notes in Seconds ✍️
I noticed a common problem among students and professionals: we save tons of YouTube lectures, tutorials, podcasts, and webinars, but rarely revisit them because watching hours of content again takes too much time.
So I built Scribely.
Scribely converts YouTube videos into clean handwritten-style notes, summaries, and cheat sheets within seconds. The goal was to make revision and learning much faster while still keeping the notes visually engaging.
Some features:
• AI-generated handwritten notes
• 15+ handwriting styles
• Quick cheat sheets for revision
• Structured summaries from long videos
People are already using it for:
Exam preparation
Interview revision
Webinar summaries
Learning from tutorials faster
The best part — I already got my first paying users, which made me realize this problem is actually real.
Built using React and AI APIs with a custom note rendering pipeline.
Still improving the product every day and would genuinely love feedback from the Indie Hackers community — especially around growth and distribution. 🙌
Getting first paying users is the proof the problem is real — you're past the hardest part. The growth problem you're asking about is almost always upstream of distribution though. Before more channels, the question is whether your current page is converting the traffic you already have.
With a tool like Scribely the leak is usually the gap between "this looks cool" and "I actually need this right now." Students and professionals both use it but they buy for completely different reasons — exam prep is urgency-driven, webinar summaries are habit-driven. If your page tries to speak to both equally, it ends up converting neither fully.
What does your current pricing page look like — is it one plan or tiered?
Currently my pricing consists of two plans - free tier and pro tier. You can check out it here - scribely_site/pricing.