Eightify

Overview Eightify is the AI YouTube summarizer that turned "TL;DR for a video" into a workable product — a browser extension that sits quietly next to any YouTube video and, on demand, produces a structured summary with the eight key points, timestamped links back to the moments those points are made, and a chat window to ask follow up questions of the transcript. Founded in 2023 by Alex Ivanovs and Vlad Yudin and shipped originally as a quick "summarize this YouTube video in ChatGPT" prototype, Eightify grew into a full product with over a million installs on the Chrome Web Store, a Safari extension, a mobile experience, and a serious business built around the specific job of collapsing a 45 minute video into a two minute read. What Eightify actually does, cleanly stated, is take any YouTube video that has a transcript (essentially all of them, thanks to YouTube's auto captions) and produce a structured summary card with eight key insights, each anchored to a timestamp you can click to jump into the video at that exact moment. Beyond the summary, Eightify offers a chat interface — ask questions of the video's content, get answers grounded in the transcript, follow up on specific claims. There is also multi language translation, playlist summarization for course content, and export to Notion, Slack, and email. The whole thing lives in a side panel next to YouTube and stays out of the way when you are just watching. The one line positioning: Eightify is…