Chat with the YouTube channels AI builders learn from. Get receipts back.
You remember a creator said it but not which episode. Taffy has already indexed 2,511 videos and their comments from 14 AI-builder channels, including Y Combinator, a16z and Greg Isenberg. Ask a question and get an answer with the exact video and timestamp.
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Startup Building
First users, funding, validation, and stack, synthesized from Y Combinator, Lenny's Podcast, Starter Story, The Brett Way, and Greg Isenberg.
Ask about Startup Building →Pasting one URL into ChatGPT gives you one video.
A YouTube channel is hundreds of hours of video and thousands of comments. Under it sits a layer of audience signal you can't get from the transcript alone. Generalist AI chat handles one document at a time.
Taffy indexes each library channel into one knowledge base. Ask what Y Combinator partners say about pricing and you get the episode and the timestamp.
What sits behind the chat
Every answer draws on the channel's full transcript archive.
Every transcript
We pull the captions, split them into timestamped segments and index them for cross-video search.
Every comment thread
Indexed alongside the videos, so the library keeps what viewers said as well as what the creator said.
A summary of every video
Written at index time, so a question can find the right episodes first. Answers come back with the exact video and timestamp.
How much do you want to ask?
Chat with the channels Taffy already indexes
14 AI-builder channels, including Y Combinator, a16z and Greg Isenberg, plus topic Ask pages that answer across several channels at once.
- ✓ Ask across every topic in the library
- ✓ Topic Ask pages (multi-creator)
- ✓ 2 with no account, 5 a day signed in
- ✓ Research guides
Chat without a cap
Ask any indexed channel as often as you like, open every archive, and export the transcripts and comments behind an answer.
- ✓ Unlimited questions across the library
- ✓ Every channel archive, not only today's
- ✓ Transcript and comment exports
Questions worth asking a channel
Real research patterns. Every answer comes back with the source video and timestamp.
"What did Y Combinator partners say about pricing an AI product?"
"Find every episode where Greg Isenberg talks about getting first users."
"What do AI Engineer speakers say about taking agents to production?"
"Which guests on Lenny's Podcast discussed pricing, and what did they say?"
"What did Nate Herk say it costs to run an AI automation for a client?"
"Which Starter Story founders built their app without code, and what do they earn?"
Common questions
Can I chat with a channel that isn't in the library?
No. Taffy covers a curated library of AI-builder channels and adds channels as the research needs them.
Does every answer cite a source?
Yes. Every answer links back to the specific video and timestamp the claim came from.
Is there a free way to try it?
Yes. Ask the library 2 questions with no account, then 5 a day with a free sign-in.
More Taffy capabilities
Same indexed channels. Different jobs to be done.
Stop hunting for "that one quote". Ask the library.
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