Long-time iOS dev just shipped my first web SaaS — VidNotes turns YouTube videos into Notion-ready notes
Hey, I've been making iOS apps for years and never shipped anything on the web. This year I built VidNotes (vidnotes.ai) — you paste a YouTube link and get a clean note out. PDF, Word, PowerPoint, or pushed straight into your Notion workspace.
The thing that took me forever to get right: it works on videos that have no captions at all. Falls back to Whisper on the audio, and works fine on non-English videos too.
A few bits that turned out kinda nice:
- If you export to Notion twice, it updates the SAME page instead of making duplicates.
- 5 note styles × 4 writing tones × 9 languages — same video can come out as a quick bullet recap or a textbook-style chapter.
- Screenshots get auto-pulled from the video at section boundaries.
Be brutal — what's confusing, what's broken, what I should kill.