We’re three developers — endlessly curious, perpetually short on time. The kind of people who keep forty tabs open because each one is “important.” Half of them are YouTube videos: founder podcasts, market deep-dives, technical breakdowns, talks we genuinely want to learn from.
The problem isn’t that the content is bad. It’s the opposite. It’s great. There’s just too much of it, and most of it is two hours long. By the time the thumbnail loaded, the day was already gone.
YouTube is the largest open library humans have ever built. It is also a platform that rewards creators for making videos longer. Watch time is the metric. A tight twelve-minute breakdown loses to the same idea stretched across ninety. That’s good for the algorithm. It’s less good for anyone trying to learn quickly.
We kept wishing the videos would just… summarize themselves. Tell us the actual claims, the timestamps that matter, the insight buried at minute fifty-three. Skip the intro, the recap, the sponsor read. Get to the substance.
That kept being too much to ask. So we built it.
Brevyd reads the video so you don’t have to. You follow the creators you care about. We pull the transcript, hand it to a real model — Claude — and produce a structured briefing: the TL;DR, the key insights, the moments worth jumping to, sourced with timestamps that link straight into the video. If something catches you, you watch that thirty seconds and move on.
It’s not anti-creator. We still send watch time when an insight earns it. It’s pro-time: yours.
We’re building Brevyd because we want it to exist for ourselves first. The version of the internet we grew up on was built around speed of thought — RSS readers, link aggregators, text you could scan in seconds. Video flipped that. A great talk now hides behind a forty-five minute commitment, and most people never make it.
If reading a book’s table of contents is fair game, skimming a podcast should be too. That’s the small idea underneath all of this.
Brevyd is operated by Derivo Labs LLC, the company we set up to ship the small, useful tools we wish other people would build. Brevyd is our first product under that roof — three engineers, one shared frustration, and a stubborn belief that software should give time back, not take more of it.
We’re a tiny team with a long roadmap. If you want to shape what comes next, write to us — we read every message.