Feedix — AI turns your YouTube subs into a daily email digest
Hey IH!
I'm a cloud engineer by day, solo founder at night. I want to share the story behind Feedix.
Why I Built This
I follow a lot of YouTube channels — cloud tech, dev tutorials, industry talks, investment&finance. The content is genuinely valuable, but I realized something:
I don't need to watch most of these videos. I just need the information inside them.
We live in an era of information overload. Everything moves fast, content is everywhere, and there's no way to absorb it all. I was spending hours watching videos when I could've gotten the same knowledge by reading for 3 minutes.
So I wanted something simple: take my YouTube subscriptions, extract the key insights, and send them to me as readable articles. No video. No algorithm. No screen time. Just knowledge, in text form.
Nothing like that existed, so I built it myself.
What Feedix Does
1. Connect your Google account
2. Pick the channels you care about
3. Get AI-generated editorial summaries delivered to your inbox
Read in 3 minutes what took 30 minutes to watch. It's not bullet points — it's full editorial-style articles with smart timestamps if you want to jump into the actual video.
The Hard Part
Building the product was the easy part. I'm an engineer , I can figure out Infra level , application level and all of that.
But Marketing is a completely different beast.
I had no audience, no following, no experience promoting anything. I still struggle with it honestly. I know how to build things, but getting people to discover and try them? That's the real challenge nobody prepares you for.
If you're a technical founder reading this, you probably know exactly what I mean.
The Moment That Kept Me Going
When my first paying customer signed up, I just felt grateful. It wasn't about the $5.90. It was proof that someone out there found this useful enough to pay for it. That one person gave me the energy to keep pushing.
Shortly after, Feedix hit #11 on Product Hunt, which was surreal for a first solo side project in my life.
I'd love to connect with other solo founders here, especially if you've been through the "I built it but how do I get people to use it" phase. Any advice or feedback is welcome.
Check it out: [feedix.app](https://feedix.app)
Great build. Nailing summary depth is the real challenge. How do you evaluate whether the AI captures real insights vs generating plausible-sounding hallucinations?
Your idea addresses a real problem—information overload—and turning long-form video content into concise, readable insights can be genuinely valuable for people who want to learn faster. However, the bigger challenge for technical founders is usually distribution and audience building, because even great tools need consistent visibility and trust before users adopt them.
Information overload from YouTube is a real problem, and turning videos into quick editorial summaries is a strong angle. Watching a quick demo of a video being converted into a readable digest would probably make the benefit obvious in seconds. I work with founders on launch and demo videos for tools like this, so if you ever want to present Feedix that way I’d love to help.
This hits a real pain point that most people don't articulate but definitely feel. I subscribe to way too many dev/AI/product channels on YouTube, and the guilt of having 200+ unwatched videos in my Watch Later playlist is real.
I've built content repurposing tools before, and the thing that's hardest to get right is the summary depth trade-off. If you summarize too aggressively, you lose the 'aha' moments that made the video worth watching. If you're too comprehensive, the email becomes as long as just watching the 2x speed version.
How are you handling videos that are primarily visual or demo-heavy? For example, if someone posts a coding tutorial where they're live-building something, does Feedix extract the code snippets and key commands, or just describe what they did?
Also curious about your roadmap for selective attention. Some channels I follow post 5 videos a week, but only 1 is usually relevant to me.
From a fellow solo technical founder who struggles with marketing: congrats on #11 on PH. That's huge for a first launch.