YouTube Productivity Mode

Reduce distractions on YouTube and gain back your focus

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Reduce distractions on YouTube and gain back your focus

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Switch YPM in “Productivity Mode” to blur all the thumbnails on YouTube so that the catchy and clickbaity thumbnails don’t grab your attention. So now if you get redirected to YouTube while working/studying, the recommended thumbnails won’t catch your eyes.

Launch tags:Browser Extensions•Chrome Extensions•Productivity

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hi! congrats on the launch. Great product! I would love to blur the titles of the videos too. Is that possible?

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6yr ago

YouTube Productivity Mode

Maker

Thanks @matias_tucci for your kind words.. What exactly do you plan to achieve by blurring the titles? I would like to understand this a little more and we can then happily spend more time and hack some solution out for it.

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6yr ago

Annotate.tv

@siddharth_nahar1 thanks for answering. In my case most of the time I click on a video is because of the title, not the thumbnail. So if I'm watching a video but I read an interesting title in the suggestions panel I want to instantly click it.

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6yr ago

YouTube Productivity Mode

Maker

@matias_tucci I understand your point. When we built this out and took early feedback, we noticed that majority of the viewers take action bcz of the thumbnail. It also felt intuitive to us as well. Also, no matter what, YouTube actually is a place of good resource for learning and that's the reason we shy'd away from blocking YouTube completely and tried only to reduce the visual stimuli. I take your feedback and will form an opinion over it. Change or not, I'll keep you in loop :+1

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6yr ago

It's a nice product good job with a great execution. But how do you feel compare to other productivity apps that already block websites and apps ?

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6yr ago

YouTube Productivity Mode

Maker

@mounemoune I just happened to answer this on another thread. We strongly believe that YouTube is a great resource of learning. You must have noticed that YT videos are embedded on quite many blogs and resources. With that thesis, we formed an opinion that we won't block user from accessing the resource but we will attempt to reduce other visual stimuli that leads to distraction. What do you think about our hypothesis? I would like to hear your opinion on it.

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6yr ago

@siddharth_nahar1 I understand better your opinion. I agree that youtube can be embedded in many ressources. I only thought about searching myself on Youtube then I could just deactivate the blocker. It's a nice approach !

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6yr ago

Nir and Far

Wonderful! I can't tell you how happy this makes me! I'm so glad my book, Indistractable, inspired you to create this! What a great way to "hack back" distractions. Congrats to @siddharth_nahar1 and the entire team!

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6yr ago

YouTube Productivity Mode

Maker

Thanks @nireyal for your words of appreciation. It means so much to us to see that our creation is delivering value to the community. It's sheer JOY OF CREATION for us and we are dancing here.. :D We have made our piece of software open-source and we are hopeful that fellow hackers would make more improvements to this. Thanks again. Have a good day :)

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6yr ago

YouTube Productivity Mode

Maker

Hello PH Community :) It's a delightful moment for us to share our product with you all. After using it ourselves and a few friends who helped us with their feedback, we are excited and hopeful that you will find our product valuable. This product is inspired from Indistractable by Nir Eyal. According to the book, one source of distraction are the external triggers that lead us to distracting activities and thus leave less time for things that we actually intend to do. YouTube is one such place on the internet where we often wander and get lost from the focus track that we plan to be on. No doubt YouTube is a great place to learn but it does have a lot of distracting content too. Taking cue from the book, we created YouTube Productivity Mode, with an objective to reduce the triggers. Switch YPM in “Productivity Mode” to blur all the thumbnails on YouTube so that the catchy and clickbaity thumbnails don’t grab your attention. So now if you get redirected to YouTube while working/studying, the recommended thumbnails won’t catch your eyes and you will hopefully switch back to your task again without losing your focus. By default, YPM works on “Leisure Mode”, only blocking ads without blurring the thumbnails. It means browse YouTube™ the way it is. Fun & Entertaining! We would love to hear about our product from you all. Have a good day :) EDIT: We are making our project open-source. Play around and add something cool and valuable to it. https://github.com/webtaculars-c...

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6yr ago

Congrats guys on the launch. Having used this extension in alpha and beta stage, I appreciate the iterations you have done on it. Keep building :)

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6yr ago

YouTube Productivity Mode

Maker

@agrawal_chinmay Thanks bhai..you have seen our earlier version and now this. With your help, we improved our pitching point and it's definitely better than before. Your thoughts/comments are always welcome and appreciated :)

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6yr ago

Good Idea guyzz.. Just wondering, if it includes any filter for showing any videos relevant to your work becoz u need youtube and stackoverflow (developer's prospective) for your learning and help. Yes, the title helps, but as per your findings, lot of folks do see the thumbnail. But, yes kudos to your determination for your work.

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6yr ago

YouTube Productivity Mode

Maker

Thanks @ds_08 , What you see is the simplest version hacked over weekend. At this moment, we do not employ any filtering over the video results you see. Like you mentioned, YouTube is important for you for your work. Our thesis was also same considering that YT is important resource for people to learn and we don't won't to block the platform. Instead, we are attempting to reduce other visual triggers/stimuli (which often becomes noise and hence distracting). A smarter version of our extension should work exactly like you describe.

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6yr ago

YouTube Productivity Mode

Maker

After so many requests from the community, we are making our project open-source. Play around and add something cool and valuable to it. https://github.com/webtaculars-c... P.S. Some updates are pending on GitHub and we also need to update the readme. We will do that ASAP.

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6yr ago

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