AskYC - Startup advice from GPT Q&A bot based on YCombinator's YouTube
Direct link to the AskYC: https://transcribe.param.codes/ask/yc AskYC is a GPT-based Q&A bot that's based on every video on YC's youtube channel.
AskYC - Startup advice from GPT Q&A bot based on YCombinator's YouTube launched on March 5, 2023 with 14 votes, #1,802 of 5,007 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
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AskYC is a GPT-based question-and-answer bot trained on Y Combinator's YouTube video library. Users can ask questions about startup advice and receive answers drawn from YC's extensive video content. The tool is designed for entrepreneurs and founders seeking guidance on building and scaling startups, pulling insights directly from YC's recorded talks and interviews.
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GPT-based Q&A bot based on YCombinator's YouTube channel
First off, here’s a link to AskYC: https://transcribe.param.codes/ask/yc In short, AskYC is a GPT-based Q&A bot that’s based on every video on the YCombinator YouTube channel (except for a few very new ones). I spent the weekend hacking together its final parts after I’d been working on it for the last 2 weeks with Suyash . The outputs are quite nice, mostly because the YouTube content is really good. For example, here’s a screenshot: I transcribed these videos using Transcriber and then generated the embeddings for these transcriptions using llama-index . I’ll jump into the technical details in a future post, but in the meanwhile, if you have any feedback or even any ideas for something…from newsletter.param.codes
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