Today was the official soft launch of Ask Channel AI:

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However with only 40 impressions and a bug on my account that prevents me from boosting the post, this won’t make a splash.

Changes

Features

• Autoplay highlights reel after the answer is generated
• "How it works" marketing page
• Pin personal favorite channels to the top in the /channels page

Billing / credits

• Manual transcription now billed dynamically by video length at 10 credits/hour.
• Import pricing → 1 credit per 10 videos (was 1 credit/video before).
• Credits-used line in import completion email.

Import pipeline

• Stream the bulk-download ZIP file for transcripts, which can now handle large (5000+) video channels without too much trouble
• Fixed bug with non-existent upload dates on videos, properly backfilled now.
• Sped up channel imports by doing a fire-and-forget generation step instead of waiting on them to finish

Performance

• Greatly sped up performance of the /channels page
• Make quote-search results return instantly (was a problem on large channels, where entering a common word would take ~10 seconds to show all results)

API

• Accept bare handles (apple) instead of just @apple