I Built a Tiny YouTube Tool That Reached $500/Month — Here’s What I Learned
I didn't build a startup. I didn't raise funding. I didn't have a team of engineers. I simply built a small tool to solve a problem I personally had. And eventually, that little project started making money. **YTtoText reached $500/month.** Here's what happened. ## The Problem Was Almost Too Simple The original idea behind YTtoText was extremely simple. I was working with YouTube videos and constantly needed to find specific information inside long videos. Watching an entire 60-minute video just to find one sentence is incredibly inefficient. Then there was another problem. Copying subtitles manually is annoying. Downloading captions isn't always straightforward. And if you want to search through a long interview, podcast, tutorial, or lecture, the video itself isn't always the best format. I thought: **What if I could just turn the YouTube video into searchable text?** That became YTtoText. ## I Started With a Very Small MVP The first versi...
