AI Video Search Engine (avse)

AI

semantic video search

SHOW HN2023

145points
49comments
#434of 3,109 in 2023
Top 14%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

7 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.

Idea: 4 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Finds relevant sections of long videos well

    From 1 comment
    • Thank you for answering and indexing the video so quickly. I'm blown away how good this works! I searched for the query just like you said and it really found exactly the…
      remuskaos on HN
  • Solves the hidden-gems problem in long videos

    From 1 comment
    • This is great, I've been looking for exactly that! Often times there are "hidden gems" of knowledge in longer videos, for example how some calculations for a specific problem are…
      remuskaos on HN

Objections

  • Ranking and relevance are weak; search is not a solved problem

    From 2 comments
    • The problem with this project is that it doesn't really solve the valuable problem, which is ranking/relevance. It's effectively just a very simple "indexer", if you can even…
      ZephyrBlu on HN
    • > but wouldn't able to accurately contextualise the actual content of the video based on the users question which is the focus on the tool Are you sure this is what users want?…
      ZephyrBlu on HN
  • Results are sensitive to exact query phrasing

    From 2 comments
    • Thank you for answering and indexing the video so quickly. I'm blown away how good this works! I searched for the query just like you said and it really found exactly the…
      remuskaos on HN
    • It doesn't sound ideal that it's so phrasing dependant - 5th on a list of 9 videos is poor if you're searching without knowing which video you're looking for and without knowing…
      swores on HN
  • Only indexes selected channels, so many queries return irrelevant results

    From 2 comments
    • It does not work at indexing anything else than AI? Tried searching for something like zero knowledge proofs and it showed me courses in Java. Interesting approach though
      eleijonmarck on HN
    • I haven't been able to get a good search result yet. I tried "how do i improve my lap times at bathurst in assetto corsa competizione" and got a couple of irrelevant results…
      mvdtnz on HN

Requests

  • Support for TikTok and automatic indexing

    From 1 comment
  • Include or exclude channels in results

    From 1 comment
    • Thank you for answering and indexing the video so quickly. I'm blown away how good this works! I searched for the query just like you said and it really found exactly the…
      remuskaos on HN
  • Dark mode and topic tabs in the UI

    From 2 comments
    • This is wonderful. A fantastic step towards indexing video... I have some ideas I'd like to share - something to improve this project: 1: Are you only scraping the video id and…
      altruios on HN
    • This is amazing... UX Feedback: The vid bubbles are HUGE. https://i.imgur.com/TjHhtRr.png It would be great to have TopicTabs... I search for "X" and it gives me one of the topic…
      samstave on HN
  • Transcribe audio with Whisper for videos without captions

    From 1 comment

Questions

  • How were chunk sizes chosen for RAG

    From 1 comment
    • How did you decide the chunking size? I’m working on a similar project and it seems our sweet spot was around 800 . But would really love to hear what others are doing here for…
      social_quotient on HN
  • How to add videos to the index

    From 2 comments
    • This is great, I've been looking for exactly that! Often times there are "hidden gems" of knowledge in longer videos, for example how some calculations for a specific problem are…
      remuskaos on HN
    • I like this. Another idea maybe is to build a podcast search engine too. The descriptions are there but many times the content is built up to ensure a particular podcast running…
      thisisit on HN

Alternatives named

  • askYouTube.ai

    From 1 comment
    • Also checkout www.askYouTube.ai Which does essentially this but requires no indexing of videos!
      twayt on HN
  • dexa.ai

    From 1 comment
    • Have you tried dexa.ai? Here is an example with Hubermanlab Podcast - https://dexa.ai/huberman
      umate on HN
  • videogist

    From 1 comment
    • There is a service that produces descriptions of each scene: https://www.videogist.co/ But I don't know about searchability.
      viddi on HN

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