Hey all 👋

I'm Victor, an electrical engineering & computer science student who builds things on the side.

I'm exactly the person who clicks "I tried the $1,600 phone for 30 days"… and 18 minutes later, usually when I should be studying, learns the answer is "it's fine, I guess." 🙃

Precap started as a weekend project to fix that for myself. You hover over any YouTube thumbnail and see what the video actually delivers – before you click:

→ the answer to the question in the title

→ three concrete key points

→ a clickbait score (with a one-line "here's what it really delivers")

I showed it to a few friends, they kept using it, so… here we are. 🚀

Things I cared about:

• No account, no setup – install, hover, done

• Any language – the summary is always in the video's language

• Privacy – Precap only looks at a video when you click its button. No tracking, no history, no ads

• Free to start – 10 summaries, then 3 a day. Popular videos are instant because summaries are shared (and don't count)

• Want unlimited? Precap Pro is 6.99 € once for a whole year. No subscription – I'm tired of subscriptions too 🙃 (Or plug in your own free Gemini key.)

Fun fact from building it: YouTube now AI-dubs videos into other languages – that broke my language detection for days and made Arabic summaries pop up for English tech reviews 😅

I'm building this solo and for fun, so I'd genuinely love your feedback!