Humain: YouTube Intelligence
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Discover how Humain built a profitable YouTube content platform processing thousands of videos monthly at 20× lower costs than OpenAI – enabling a scalable freemium business model with deAPI.
The Challenge
Building a video intelligence platform with freemium pricing seemed financially impossible. Processing 10,000 hours of video with OpenAI's Whisper API costs around $3,600 – before infrastructure, storage, or additional AI costs for summaries and chat features.
For a startup offering free tier access, these economics don't work. Users expect free minutes included, but margins evaporate when transcription alone costs thousands of dollars monthly.
Key Problems
- High transcription costs: Processing thousands of hours monthly makes freemium pricing nearly impossible
- Manual monitoring: No way to automatically track favorite channels for new content
- No semantic search: Can't ask questions or find specific topics across video content
- Time-consuming: Must watch entire videos to find relevant information
Powered by deAPI
- Video Transcription: Powered by Whisper large-v3 for accurate transcripts with timestamps
- Semantic Search: Text embeddings enable search by meaning, not just keywords
- 20× lower costs: Decentralized infrastructure enables profitable freemium pricing
- Unified API: Single integration for all AI capabilities – transcription and embeddings
The Solution
Humain leverages deAPI's decentralized AI infrastructure to build a comprehensive YouTube intelligence platform. Users follow their favorite channels and automatically receive transcripts and AI-generated summaries of every new video.
The platform goes beyond basic transcription by enabling conversational search – users can ask questions about video content and get instant answers with exact timestamps.
How It Works
Monitor Channels
Users follow YouTube channels. New videos trigger automatic processing – no manual work required.
AI Transcription
deAPI converts videos to accurate transcripts with timestamps using Whisper large-v3, at 20× lower cost than alternatives.
Smart Search
Transcripts are indexed with deAPI embeddings, enabling semantic search across all content by meaning, not just keywords.
Instant Delivery
Users receive AI summaries and can chat with video content – asking questions and getting answers with exact timestamps.
Key Features Built on deAPI
Automatic Channel Monitoring
Subscribe to any YouTube channel and receive instant notifications when new content is published. Set custom preferences for each channel – choose summary style, AI model, and notification method.
Chat with Videos
Ask questions about any video in natural language. Get instant answers with exact timestamps and transcript excerpts. Perfect for research, learning, and content discovery.
Multi-Style Summaries
Generate different types of summaries for the same video: comprehensive overviews, brief highlights, detailed analysis, or educational notes. Save custom prompt templates for recurring needs.
Semantic Search
Search across all your transcripts by meaning, not just keywords. Find relevant content even when exact words don't match. Filter by channel, date, or topic.
The Results
Lower Costs
compared to OpenAI Whisper API
Automated
from video upload to summary delivery
Search
across thousands of hours of content
Business Impact
Enabled freemium model: Ultra-low costs allow Humain to offer free transcription minutes, converting users to paid plans for bulk processing
Scalable architecture: Queue-based processing with deAPI handles thousands of concurrent transcriptions without infrastructure overhead
Faster time-to-market: Unified API eliminated need to integrate multiple AI providers and manage GPU infrastructure
Unique value proposition: Conversational AI features powered by embeddings differentiate from simple transcription tools
Product Showcase
Why Humain Chose deAPI
Building a video intelligence platform requires powerful AI capabilities at scale. Here's why deAPI was the right choice:
💰 Economics That Work
20× cheaper than OpenAI – enabling profitable freemium pricing from day one.
Processing 10,000 hours: ~$3,600 (OpenAI) → $100-360
🚀 Fast Time-to-Market
Single API for video transcription and embeddings – no need to manage multiple providers or GPU infrastructure.
📈 Unlimited Scale
Decentralized infrastructure scales automatically – from 10 videos to 10,000+ monthly without infrastructure changes.
🎯 Production-Ready AI
Access to Whisper large-v3 for transcription and state-of-the-art embeddings for semantic search – battle-tested models.
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