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Join Secret is all about helping startups and small businesses save money on the tools they actually use every day. Instead of endless coupon sites, we negotiate directly with SaaS companies so our members get real, exclusive discounts they can’t usually find elsewhere. On top of that, we’ve built a community and support system around it, so it’s not just “here’s a code”; it’s a way to make your software stack way more affordable without wasting hours hunting deals.

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.

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Most “deal” platforms just throw up offers anyone can Google. Secret goes further. We’ve locked in partnerships with companies like AWS, Notion, Stripe, and JetBrains — the kind of tools you’d be paying full price for anyway. The savings usually pay back the membership fee in a single day. Plus, our team is hands-on and actually helps if you run into eligibility issues, which is rare in this space.

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.

Join Secret's answer

Our core audience is founders, early-stage startups, and small businesses trying to grow on a budget. But it’s not just them! We also work with VCs, incubators, and accelerators who want to give their startups extra perks, and even agencies that want access to better deals for the software they rely on every day.

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.

Join Secret's answer

Secret started with a simple frustration: startups spend a ton on software, and most discounts are either hidden behind accelerators or impossible to find. So the idea was to create one place where any founder could get access to those same perks without needing to be part of Y Combinator or have a huge network. Over time, it’s grown into a platform that helps tens of thousands of entrepreneurs save millions collectively, while also serving communities like VCs and accelerators.

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.

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Secret runs on a custom-built web platform that manages all the deals, eligibility checks, and redemption flows. There’s also the behind-the-scenes stuff that makes partnerships work, like our vendor dashboard, affiliate tracking, and the private community setup. Basically, it’s a mix of marketplace tech, automation, and support tools all stitched together to make claiming deals super simple.

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.

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Our community is pretty broad; over 30,000 entrepreneurs and startups worldwide. That includes founders at early-stage SaaS companies, agency owners, and teams inside accelerators and incubators. You’ll also see testimonials from founders at places like The Saasy People and InsuredNomads who talk about saving thousands through the platform.