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• Apr 28, 2026
  description

  Four critics. One tab. Your AI writers' room for YouTube — filed like a late-night newspaper desk.
  Peanut Gallery mounts in Chrome's native side panel as a broadsheet: cream paper stock, Anton slab masthead, four mug-shot avatars standing by. A fact-checker. A sound effects guy. A comedy writer. A cynical troll. They watch any YouTube video alongside you and file their reactions as a wire-service feed — every quip stamped with a 24-hour timestamp and a role tag (FACT, DUNK, CUE, BIT).
  No tab switching. No screen-share picker. No interference with playback. Audio is captured silently while you watch.
  Built for long-form talk shows, interviews, and pods — where a booth producer actually adds something. Inspired by the Howard Stern Show. Two packs ship out of the box; swap between them in the side panel per session.
  THE HOWARD PACK (default)
  
  Baba Booey — fact-checker. Mid-show corrections and background data on every claim. Searches the web via Brave Search or xAI Live Search to verify stats, dates, and attributions.
  Fred Norris — sound effects guy. Well-timed cues and the occasional razor-sharp aside.
  Jackie Martling — comedy writer. Setup-punchline jokes, callbacks, observational humor.
  The Cynical Troll — contrarian commentator, 120ms response time. Says what the chat is thinking.
  
  THE TWIST PACK (swap in the side panel)
  Tuned for This Week in Startups-style podcasts — Molly Wood (producer), Jason Calacanis (troll), Lon Harris (sound effects), and Alex Wilhelm (joker). Same 4 roles, startup vocabulary.
  THE BROADSHEET UI (new in v1.5)
  
  Role-stamped wire feed — every reaction filed with FACT / DUNK / CUE / BIT and a 24h timestamp. Filter pills in the footer hide any tag you want to tune out.
  Paper theme for daylight, Night theme for 2am captures. Toggle in the drawer.
  Mute a critic with one tap — their mug gets a strike-through, their stream goes silent. No server round-trip.
  Download the whole session as Markdown when you're done — full transcript plus every quip, role-tagged, ready to paste into a doc.
  
  HOW IT WORKS
  
  1. Install. Click the peanut icon on any YouTube tab — a native Chrome side panel opens.
  2. Enter your API keys (Deepgram, Groq, and optionally Anthropic and Brave Search). Keys are stored locally in your browser and sent only to the providers you configure.
  3. Click Start Listening. Tab audio is captured silently via chrome.tabCapture — the same API used by Otter.ai, Fireflies, and Recall.ai. No permission picker, no interference with playback. You hear the video; the AI hears it too.
  4. Responses stream back token-by-token and appear in the side panel alongside a live transcript.
  
  PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN
  
  - Your API keys live in chrome.storage.local on your machine and are passed directly to the providers — never logged, never persisted.
  - Audio is transcribed in real-time and discarded. No session is written to disk.
  - No user accounts. Nothing to sign up for.
  - For full privacy: Peanut Gallery is MIT-licensed open source. Run the server yourself with `npm run dev` and point the extension at localhost. Your audio never leaves your machine except to the AI providers you choose.
  
  COST
  
  Approximately $1.15 per 2-hour episode across all four providers at current rates. No subscription, no middleman — you pay the providers directly.
  
  LINKS
  
  - Source code + setup: https://github.com/Sethmr/peanut.gallery
  - Hosted reference web app: https://peanutgallery.live
  - Privacy policy: https://peanutgallery.live/privacy
  
  BUILT FOR
  
  The $5,000 This Week in Startups bounty from @jason and @lonharris. Ship it. @TWiStartups.

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• Apr 28, 2026
  short_description

  AI writers' room for YouTube. 4 personas react live — fact-checker, troll, sound guy, comedy writer. Howard or TWiST pack.

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• Apr 28, 2026
  name

  Peanut Gallery

  Unknown

• Apr 28, 2026
  category

  productivity/developer

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• Apr 28, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://peanutgallery.live/*, https://api.peanutgallery.live/*, https://www.peanutgallery.live/*

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• Apr 28, 2026
  permissions

  tabCapture, offscreen, activeTab, storage, sidePanel

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• Apr 23, 2026
  description

  Peanut Gallery turns any YouTube video into a live show with 4 AI personas watching alongside you — a fact-checker, a sound effects guy, a comedy writer, and a cynical troll. They react in real-time in a native Chrome side panel, next to the video. No tab switching. No screen-share picker. Audio captured silently while you watch.
  
  Inspired by the Howard Stern Show staff.
  
  THE CAST
  - Baba Booey — fact-checker. Mid-show corrections and background data on every claim. Searches the web via Brave Search to verify stats, dates, and attributions.
  - Fred Norris — sound effects guy. Well-timed cues and the occasional razor-sharp aside.
  - Jackie Martling — comedy writer. Setup-punchline jokes, callbacks, observational humor.
  - The Cynical Troll — contrarian commentator, 120ms response time. Says what the chat is thinking.
  
  HOW IT WORKS
  1. Install. Click the peanut icon on any YouTube tab — a native Chrome side panel opens.
  2. Enter your API keys (Deepgram, Groq, and optionally Anthropic and Brave Search). Keys are stored locally in your browser and sent only to the providers you configure.
  3. Click Start Listening. Tab audio is captured silently via chrome.tabCapture — the same API used by Otter.ai, Fireflies, and Recall.ai. No permission picker, no interference with playback. You hear the video; the AI hears it too.
  4. Responses stream back token-by-token and appear in the side panel alongside a live transcript.
  
  PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN
  - Your API keys live in chrome.storage.local on your machine and are passed directly to the providers — never logged, never persisted.
  - Audio is transcribed in real-time and discarded. No session is written to disk.
  - No user accounts. Nothing to sign up for.
  - For full privacy: Peanut Gallery is MIT-licensed open source. Run the server yourself with `npm run dev` and point the extension at localhost. Your audio never leaves your machine except to the AI providers you choose.
  
  COST
  Approximately $1.15 per 2-hour episode across all four providers at current rates. No subscription, no middleman — you pay the providers directly.
  
  LINKS
  - Source code + setup: https://github.com/Sethmr/peanut.gallery
  - Hosted reference web app: https://peanutgallery.live
  - Privacy policy: https://peanutgallery.live/privacy
  
  BUILT FOR
  The $5,000 This Week in Startups bounty from @jason and @lonharris. Ship it. @TWiStartups.

  Four critics. One tab. Your AI writers' room for YouTube — filed like a late-night newspaper desk.
  Peanut Gallery mounts in Chrome's native side panel as a broadsheet: cream paper stock, Anton slab masthead, four mug-shot avatars standing by. A fact-checker. A sound effects guy. A comedy writer. A cynical troll. They watch any YouTube video alongside you and file their reactions as a wire-service feed — every quip stamped with a 24-hour timestamp and a role tag (FACT, DUNK, CUE, BIT).
  No tab switching. No screen-share picker. No interference with playback. Audio is captured silently while you watch.
  Built for long-form talk shows, interviews, and pods — where a booth producer actually adds something. Inspired by the Howard Stern Show. Two packs ship out of the box; swap between them in the side panel per session.
  THE HOWARD PACK (default)
  
  Baba Booey — fact-checker. Mid-show corrections and background data on every claim. Searches the web via Brave Search or xAI Live Search to verify stats, dates, and attributions.
  Fred Norris — sound effects guy. Well-timed cues and the occasional razor-sharp aside.
  Jackie Martling — comedy writer. Setup-punchline jokes, callbacks, observational humor.
  The Cynical Troll — contrarian commentator, 120ms response time. Says what the chat is thinking.
  
  THE TWIST PACK (swap in the side panel)
  Tuned for This Week in Startups-style podcasts — Molly Wood (producer), Jason Calacanis (troll), Lon Harris (sound effects), and Alex Wilhelm (joker). Same 4 roles, startup vocabulary.
  THE BROADSHEET UI (new in v1.5)
  
  Role-stamped wire feed — every reaction filed with FACT / DUNK / CUE / BIT and a 24h timestamp. Filter pills in the footer hide any tag you want to tune out.
  Paper theme for daylight, Night theme for 2am captures. Toggle in the drawer.
  Mute a critic with one tap — their mug gets a strike-through, their stream goes silent. No server round-trip.
  Download the whole session as Markdown when you're done — full transcript plus every quip, role-tagged, ready to paste into a doc.
  
  HOW IT WORKS
  
  1. Install. Click the peanut icon on any YouTube tab — a native Chrome side panel opens.
  2. Enter your API keys (Deepgram, Groq, and optionally Anthropic and Brave Search). Keys are stored locally in your browser and sent only to the providers you configure.
  3. Click Start Listening. Tab audio is captured silently via chrome.tabCapture — the same API used by Otter.ai, Fireflies, and Recall.ai. No permission picker, no interference with playback. You hear the video; the AI hears it too.
  4. Responses stream back token-by-token and appear in the side panel alongside a live transcript.
  
  PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN
  
  - Your API keys live in chrome.storage.local on your machine and are passed directly to the providers — never logged, never persisted.
  - Audio is transcribed in real-time and discarded. No session is written to disk.
  - No user accounts. Nothing to sign up for.
  - For full privacy: Peanut Gallery is MIT-licensed open source. Run the server yourself with `npm run dev` and point the extension at localhost. Your audio never leaves your machine except to the AI providers you choose.
  
  COST
  
  Approximately $1.15 per 2-hour episode across all four providers at current rates. No subscription, no middleman — you pay the providers directly.
  
  LINKS
  
  - Source code + setup: https://github.com/Sethmr/peanut.gallery
  - Hosted reference web app: https://peanutgallery.live
  - Privacy policy: https://peanutgallery.live/privacy
  
  BUILT FOR
  
  The $5,000 This Week in Startups bounty from @jason and @lonharris. Ship it. @TWiStartups.

• Apr 23, 2026
  short_description

  Watch any YouTube video with an AI writers' room. 4 personas react in real-time in a native Chrome side panel.

  AI writers' room for YouTube. 4 personas react live — fact-checker, troll, sound guy, comedy writer. Howard or TWiST pack.

• Apr 23, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://peanutgallery.live/*

  https://peanutgallery.live/*, https://api.peanutgallery.live/*, https://www.peanutgallery.live/*

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