Earlier this month I changed one number on our homepage. The little badge under the headline used to say "TRUSTED BY 7,000+ USERS." Now it says "10,000+." It's a two-character edit in a translation file. It also represents ~3,500 people who, in the last few weeks, pasted a YouTube link into a tool built by a tiny team and got exactly what they needed. We didn't raise money. We didn't run a single ad. We wrote a product that does one unglamorous thing — turn video into text — and we made it fast, accurate, and available in 100+ languages. 10,527 users. $1,000+ in revenue. 22,835 transcripts. Still bootstrapped, still shipping. Onto the next badge edit.

Just shipped Study — the new study mode on YouTubeTranscript.dev Turn any YouTube video into a complete study kit: notes, flashcards, quizzes, and an AI tutor that actually cites the video. Already used by students and educators at UC Santa Barbara, Carnegie Mellon, Boston University, Texas A&M, Indiana University, and Monash. Free to try. No credit card. → youtubetranscript.dev/edtech

5,000 users. 🚀 YouTubeTranscript.dev just hit a milestone I've been staring at on the dashboard for weeks. We built an API that does one thing really well — fetches YouTube transcripts so your apps, agents, and pipelines don't have to. No scraping. No headless browsers. No rate limit nightmares. Just clean transcript data, fast. Thank you to every developer who signed up, shipped something with it, and sent feedback. You're the reason we're still building. Onward to 10k. 👊 youtubetranscript.dev #milestone #buildinpublic #api #developertools #saas

# Simple tools still work YouTubeTranscript.dev gets 40–50 new users every day. That's it. No viral launch, no growth hacks, no aggressive marketing. Just a tool that does one thing — pulls transcripts out of YouTube videos — and does it well. People keep saying the internet is too saturated, that you can't ship small tools anymore, that everything has to be an AI-powered platform with a $50/mo subscription and a roadmap. I disagree. There's still huge demand for things that load fast, solve a real problem, and get out of your way. 40–50 users a day compounds. It compounds into SDKs people actually install, an MCP server that gets pinged thousands of times, a Chrome extension that sits quietly in someone's toolbar saving them 30 seconds a day. None of it is glamorous. All of it is useful. If you're sitting on an idea for a "too simple" tool — build it. Someone needs it. Probably 40–50 someones, every single day.

youtubetranscript.dev update: ARR $1,862 (+26.6%) 4,500+ total users built for one job: get the transcript. turns out doing one thing well still works.

Applebot loves YouTubeTranscript.dev 🤖 Our Cloudflare dashboard just caught something interesting: Applebot sent 26.95k requests last period. That's a 479.55% spike. AI crawlers overall hit 31.4k requests (152% up from before), but Apple's indexing our transcripts harder than anyone else. They're clearly building something with search and AI in mind.

Crossed 3,500 Users 🎉 We shipped a lot in the last few weeks: 🎬 Create YouTube thumbnails 👀 Interactive Viewer 🌍 More translation support for transcripts (8 locales) ⚡ Increased performance across the board 3,500 of you are using it. Thanks 🙌

Create Viral Thumbnails In Seconds Saves $1000+ you'd spend on thumbnail designers and 10+ hours of manual work. youtubetranscript.dev/thumbnail-dev

Hey @marclou — quick suggestion for the feed: Right now it feels like a flat stream, and it’s a bit overwhelming to sift through. It’d be really useful to have filters like **Top (Today / This Week / This Month)**, similar to how Reddit structures content. That way, instead of just a chronological list, users can quickly surface the most valuable or relevant posts without digging through noise/spam. Even a simple toggle between *Latest* and *Top* would make a big difference.

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Just shipped: Interactive Viewer 🎬 Watch any YouTube video with: → Live synced subtitles → AI transcription (when captions don't exist) → Clickable transcript sidebar → Full customization No captions? No problem. Try it free → www.youtubetranscript.dev/viewer

Ever tried to get captions from a YouTube video... only to find there are none? 😤 Auto-captions disabled. Non-English content. Old videos. Podcasts with zero CC. We got tired of it too. So we built something that doesn't care if captions exist or not. YouTubeTranscript.dev transcribes directly from audio using AI. 100+ languages. 99%+ accuracy on clear audio. Works on ANY YouTube video. No captions? No problem. Try it free → www.youtubetranscript.dev