Shorty
AI YouTube & Spotify Summarizer
Turns videos, podcasts, and documents into quick, digestible takeaways. 50% month-over-month growth.
The Story
Shorty started as a personal frustration: I was spending hours watching YouTube videos and listening to podcasts just to extract a few key ideas. I built a Chrome extension that summarizes them in seconds.
The technical challenge was getting clean transcripts from YouTube, Spotify, and arbitrary podcast feeds. I built Python microservices with Selenium + TOR rotation to scrape and process content without hitting rate limits.
After launching on the Chrome Web Store, growth accelerated 50% month-over-month as creators started sharing it. The extension is now available on iOS, Android, Firefox, and the Microsoft Store.