Guide
How to get transcripts of Y Combinator videos
Startup advice is scattered across hundreds of talks with near-identical titles.
Get every available transcript in three steps
- Paste the channel link. BulkTranscripts detects whether it is a video, playlist, or channel automatically.
- Press Get transcripts. Videos are processed in parallel with live progress, and anything already in your library is served instantly from cache.
- Export. Download a ZIP with one file per video, or a single combined document — TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV, JSON, or AI-ready.
What people do with Y Combinator transcripts
The common use is to ask an AI what YC actually says about pricing, hiring, or finding your first users. Because the combined export carries each video's title, channel, date, and link in a header, an AI model can cite which video an answer came from instead of blending everything together.
About the Y Combinator archive
Y Combinator's channel mixes Startup School lectures, office-hours recordings, founder interviews and short explainers. Titles are often near-identical ("How to...", "Office Hours"), which is exactly why text search across the transcripts beats browsing the channel. Captions are creator-provided on most talks.
Questions the full transcript set can answer
Load the combined export into NotebookLM, ChatGPT or Claude and ask:
- What does YC actually recommend about pricing, with the talk and speaker for each point?
- Which talks cover finding the first ten customers, and how does the advice differ?
- Summarise every office-hours session that discusses a co-founder dispute.
Questions
Is there a limit on how many Y Combinator videos I can transcribe?
You can run a whole channel or playlist in one job. Large archives are processed in batches with live progress, and everything you have already pulled is cached so re-runs are instant.
Do I need to sign in?
No. Paste a link and go.
What if a video has no captions?
It is skipped and reported in the results, and the rest of the job continues. Videos with creator-written captions are preferred over auto-generated ones when both exist.
Can I get one file instead of hundreds?
Yes. Choose the combined export to get the entire channel or playlist as a single document, which is what you want for NotebookLM, ChatGPT, or Claude.