Show IH: New tool to notify founders whenever their brand or product is mentioned on YouTube 🔥
I just launched VideoMentions.com! It's a SaaS app that notifies founders whenever YouTubers mention their brand or product.
It works like this:
- You tell VideoMentions what keywords to listen for, and which YouTube channels to monitor.
- VideoMentions sends you an email whenever a video is published with those keywords in its title, description, or the YouTuber's spoken words. ✨
Please check it out, if that sounds useful!
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The short video on the homepage shows how to use VideoMentions and what the emails look like. Please let me know if you have any questions about it, below. Thanks!
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Looks like a cool product. A small question: How do you monitor for the "YouTube's spoken words?" I found a bunch of good speech-to-text APIs but almost no free libraries. Have you trained your own model? Have you found a library which works well for this?
Hey @zerotousers! 👋 Thank you! I appreciate you checking it out!
When a video is uploaded to YouTube, YouTube runs the audio through its own voice-to-text algorithm to create the auto-generated captions/transcription data for the video. When VideoMentions sees that a new video has been published on a channel that it's monitoring, it gets the XML captions data for that video, converts it to JSON, then searches through it for any instances of the keywords. So fortunately for this SaaS app, I can lean on the voice-to-text transcription that YouTube provides without the need to roll my own solution for that. 👍
Oh nice! Cool product - what made you come up with this idea?
Thanks @Indiesaas! In my day job, I educate developers on how to build headless WordPress websites. I wanted to get notified anytime a tech YouTuber talks about that topic. I thought to myself "surely someone's already built a service that does that...", but when I looked around the web, I couldn't find one. There are products that listen for keywords in YouTube titles, descriptions or comments, but not one that listens for the spoken words within videos. So I decided to build a web app that does that for me to use, and figured others may benefit from it, too!
Very cool product!
Thanks @MaxwellDavis! 🙌