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adds the design document for a self-hostable youtube q&a platform.
the idea: paste a youtube url, it pulls the transcript via
youtube-transcript-api, chunks and embeds it into a local vector store (chroma), and you can then ask questions against it using either openrouter or a local model via ollama.files added:
youtube-qna/raw.mdx- unedited original inputyoutube-qna/problem.mdx- why long-form video content is hard to retrieve fromyoutube-qna/why.mdx- motivation behind the ideayoutube-qna/solution.mdx- what the platform does and requirementsyoutube-qna/technical-design.mdx- architecture, stack, and component breakdownyoutube-qna/references.mdx- relevant libraries and toolsalso updated
index.mdxto include the new entry.