I turned YouTube tutorials into something you can actually talk to — meet AskMyTuto
Hey IH 👋
I've spent over a decade learning from YouTube and paid courses. And honestly, watching a tutorial was never a great experience — you rewind because you missed something, you Google a term and lose your place, you switch tabs to ask a side question and forget where you stopped. "Tutorial hell" is real, and it's not a knowledge problem — it's a tooling problem. Video players are built for watching, not learning.
So I built AskMyTuto: paste any YouTube tutorial URL, and it becomes an interactive AI mentor. You can ask a question about the exact moment you're watching and get a context-aware answer — not a generic search result pulled from a transcript. You can capture a frame and ask "extract this code" or "what's on screen," and the AI actually sees that moment. You can go off-topic with a side question (SideAsk) without losing your place. And you can export the whole session — notes, frames, chat — to PDF, Notion, or Markdown.
It's not just for developers — it works on any YouTube tutorial (languages, exam prep, business, repairs, design) — but I've gone deep on coding tutorials specifically: line-by-line code explanations, bug-fixing challenges, mini exercises generated from the video you're watching, and a one-click launch into a live StackBlitz project.
Where I'm at: just launched, small number of early users, pre-revenue. Free 7-day trial, no card required, paid plans from $9/mo.
The closest thing out there is NoteGPT (summarize/chat with a transcript after the fact). Tools like Mindgrasp and NotebookLM are broader study tools across PDFs and lectures. What none of them do is stay live with you while you're watching — they treat the video as a document to summarize, not a moment to be present in.
Would genuinely love feedback from this community — especially:
Does the frame-capture feature make sense the first time you try it, or does it need a better intro?
What would make you trust an AI's explanation of a video moment over just rewinding it yourself?
Any tutorial you learn from regularly that you'd want to try this on?
Link: https://askmytuto.com
Thanks for reading 🙏
