Built from a habit.
For years I have opened a transcript before pressing play. Worthwatch is that habit, made quick, for anyone who learns from video.
The habit.
Most days I watch tutorials, talks, and long interviews for work. Most of them are longer than they need to be, and the title tells me nothing about where the useful part is.
So I read the transcript first. Thirty seconds of scrolling tells me whether to press play, and where. I wanted that in one click, with the minute marked.
What Worthwatch is.
A Chrome extension that reads a video's captions in your browser and gives a verdict: watch, skim, or skip. With it, the reason, the points, the start of the substance, and what to skip.
A web app that does the same from a pasted link. A morning digest that does it for every new video from the channels you follow.
It is a judgment from the transcript. It admits that on every video, and it is wrong sometimes. It is still a better start than the thumbnail.
Who makes it.
I am Brett Wharton, Founder of NexusMKTG in Boston. I have built 200+ websites and apps. Worthwatch is one of a small set of tools I am building and running myself.
Questions, a verdict that read wrong, a channel the digest could not find: write to me and I answer myself.
How it is run.
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Independent
Worthwatch is not affiliated with YouTube or Google. Their names appear only to say what the tool works with.
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Nothing is scraped
The extension reads captions on the page in your own browser. The server reads public channel feeds and buys transcripts for the digest from a transcript provider.
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Nothing is kept that you did not save
Transcripts are analyzed and discarded unless you save a verdict. Nothing is used to train a model.
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Priced to be a habit
5 verdicts a day are free. Pro removes the limit and adds the digest, and the first 300 Founding seats are Pro for as long as Worthwatch runs. The pricing page has the numbers.