Geeke's answer

Geeke is one of the few websites that offers a social platform built around books.

Going even beyond, It is the only platform that makes books more interactive with features like Group Reading Sessions, Daily Hunts, animated Skins, Fandom Clubs & much more

TranscriptFetch's answer:

Most short-form video has no caption track to download. TikTok’s auto-captions are opt-in per upload, Instagram never publishes a downloadable track, and many captions on both are burned into the video frames where no parser can read them. TranscriptFetch transcribes the audio when no caption track exists, on the same endpoint, with the same response shape. Your code never branches on which method produced the text. It also covers YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook plus any web page as clean Markdown, so a pipeline spanning several sources is one integration rather than five.

Geeke's answer

Geeke is a platform built for all book lovers globally, whether readers or writers.

Our special focus is on making books more fun & engaging for the young audience by adding features that are relevant to them.

TranscriptFetch's answer:

Developers and technical teams building on video and web content. The common cases are RAG and retrieval pipelines that need video as text, AI agents that need to read a link mid-conversation, content teams repurposing short-form video at scale, and media monitoring and research tools. It is an API first, so the buyer is usually the person writing the integration rather than an end user. The free browser tools exist for one-off transcripts and for evaluating output quality before writing any code.

Geeke's answer

The current platforms for books are boring and dull and do not offer much beyond reading ebooks.

The new generation needed a better platform built like a social media as well as offering unique ways to make books more fun & interactive.

TranscriptFetch's answer:

Three reasons. Coverage: one API key and one response shape across five video platforms and the open web, instead of stitching together a library per platform. Reliability: requests run through rotating infrastructure, so code that works locally keeps working from a server, which is where most open-source approaches break. Billing that matches reality: one credit per successful response, with failed, blocked and empty results never charged. That last point matters on short-form video, where a meaningful share of any batch is music with no speech in it. There is also an MCP server, so AI agents can fetch transcripts as a tool without a custom integration.

Geeke's answer

Geeke is built using Anvil Framework

The tools offered by the framework for rapid development allows us to remain ahead and introduce new features more quickly.

TranscriptFetch's answer:

Next.js with TypeScript and Tailwind on the front end and API layer, Clerk for auth with SHA-256 hashed API keys, Neon Postgres with Drizzle ORM, Redis for caching, and Stripe for billing. The extraction layer is a Python and FastAPI service. Speech-to-text uses Whisper-class models. The MCP server is published in the official Model Context Protocol registry with a DNS-verified namespace.

Geeke's answer

Hey everyone! This is Divyesh Lakhotia, the founder of Geeke. I am a student from India currently pursuing my Bachelor in Computer Applications. I started working on Geeke back in 2021 when I just entered my 12th grade.

Why build Geeke?

Yes, there are plenty of websites already available online for reading and writing books. But they don't offer much beyond that. Mostly they are just a downgrade and a cheap alternative to an actual book.

Even big sites like Wattpad started destroying the few extras they had and transitioned into another typical site focused more on making money rather than making the site more engaging (I had been active almost daily on Wattpad since 2017 before the community started becoming dry).

That's when the idea of Geeke was born. It felt that the internet deserved a better place for books. Ebooks may not provide the same feeling as reading an actual book but there is so much more that only they can offer.

I wanted to build a social media that is familiar to existing platforms on the internet that the young crowd loves using. But of course, modified for books!

For a long time, the idea remained in my mind alongside most of my novel plots. But here we are, at last, aiming to build the most awesome and fun place for all book lovers

TranscriptFetch's answer:

It started with discovering there is no good way to get the text of a video. YouTube’s official Data API will confirm a caption track exists and then refuse to hand it over, because captions.download requires the video owner’s OAuth token. The popular open-source libraries work until you deploy them, at which point platforms start refusing datacenter IPs. And YouTube is the easy case: TikTok and Instagram publish no caption file at all. Every workaround solved one platform, worked locally, and broke in production. TranscriptFetch is the version that handles the failure cases as first-class behaviour rather than edge cases.