Launched this week
Focus Room
Turn YouTube into your personal learning platform
217 followers
Turn YouTube into your personal learning platform
217 followers
Focus Room turns YouTube into a personal learning platform with a structured, course-inspired interface. Convert educational videos and playlists into organized courses, navigate lessons using timestamped topics, generate concise summaries, create notes and to-do lists, track your progress, and bookmark courses for later. With unnecessary recommendations and distractions removed, Focus Room helps transform passive watching into focused, consistent learning.
Quiz Deck
Hey everyone 👋
I’m excited to share something I’ve built called Focus Room!
I built Focus Room because YouTube has some of the best educational content online, but recommendations, Shorts, comments, and unrelated videos can make focused learning difficult.
Key features:
Open a video or playlist in a Coursera-inspired learning interface.
Follow structured courses created from educational YouTube playlists.
Generate summaries, take timestamped notes, and manage learning tasks.
Track your course progress and bookmark courses for later.
Add focusroom.club/ before a supported YouTube URL to open it directly in Focus Room.
@akshaj_dev , Congrats on the launch. I see this error on Signup.
email rate limit exceeded
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@nikita_upadhayay I’ve fixed signup flow. Please give it another try
I was genuinely excited to try this out, but I ran into a couple of issues almost immediately. The first one was during sign-up. When I clicked the email confirmation link, it redirected me to:
http://localhost:3000/?error=access_denied&error_code=otp_expired&error_description=Email+link+is+invalid+or+has+expired
At first I assumed the account wasn't created, but I was actually able to log in afterward, which made the flow pretty confusing. Then, when I tried searching for something, I got this error instead:
We couldn’t load playlist results.
Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Search Queries' and limit 'Search Queries per day' of service 'youtube.googleapis.com'.
It looks like the app has already exhausted its YouTube API quota for the day.
I still like the idea behind the product and was looking forward to trying it, but so far I couldn't
Quiz Deck
@matheusdsantosr_dev Thanks for trying out Focus Room! The issue has now been fixed.
@matheusdsantosr_dev @akshaj_dev
getting same error still
Quiz Deck
@yodalr the issue has been fixed,please check again
@akshaj_dev yes works now, I checked it and my feedback would be to add video "publisehd dates" to each video in your plalist and span of dates to the overview, otherwise one cannot really trust any playlist NOT to be aged, unless you are looking for timeless things like gardening or smth.
the quota exhaustion someone hit above is the thing i would design around first, not a launch day bug. anything sitting on the youtube data api inherits a hard daily ceiling, and search is the expensive call, so your cost scales with usage while the product is free.
caching resolved playlists and topic maps per video id rather than per user would buy a lot of headroom. two people working through the same calculus playlist should only cost you once
Congratulations on the launch! The most useful business advice I found was on YouTube and in books, and the problem with the YouTube part was that none of it stayed anywhere. I would watch something useful and then rewatch half of it later to find the one section I needed, so timestamped notes solve most of that for me. Can those notes be exported or do they live inside Focus Room?
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@alieksia Thank you! Currently notes can’t be exported but its definitely something I’ve been thinking about and plan to add in the future
@akshaj_dev, I just wanted to chime in and say exporting notes would be a great feature, ideally with some kind of tool that pulls everything into one document, including the full course notes and extras. After finishing a course, I like to gather everything in one place and recap it. I’d love to see this added to the roadmap!
Anyway, congrats on the launch (love the idea)!
Hi, i like your idea and am very interested to try this app. But i got an error:"We couldn’t load playlist results.
Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Search Queries' and limit 'Search Queries per day' of service 'youtube.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:492833098910'."
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@jeff_lee20 please check again
I could see this being useful for university students too. Have you had many students using it for lectures and study playlists?
Product suggestion: The page layout needs to be optimized. The video is the core element. However, in the default opened page, the video area occupies too little space. If users switch to full screen, they will not be able to use the provided tool to record the content.