Chapters for every platform, in one click.
Generate the right timestamp format for YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, TikTok, X, and more. Paste-ready and character-budget aware.
One transcript. Every platform.
Your transcript already has fine-grained timestamps. We turn them into platform-ready chapter lists: character budget, minimum spacing, first-at-zero, HH:MM:SS where required. Click Copy and paste.
0:00 Cold open and the "first 5 hires" framework 0:50 Why your first hire defines your culture 2:30 Mission, money, or mentorship: what they actually want 4:15 The "10x engineer" myth and why it backfires 7:20 Hiring for slope, not intercept 11:40 The second engineer: complement, not clone 15:05 Pair-programming as the real interview signal 20:05 When to hire your first non-engineer 24:30 Founder + ops + sales: the early-stage trio 28:50 Equity ranges most founders get wrong 33:20 The compensation conversation founders avoid 38:10 How to run the working session interview 42:40 Reference checks that actually predict performance 47:30 Closing the offer without overselling 52:50 The first 30 days and what makes hire 5 stick
Sample preview uses a mock 58-minute episode with 15 timestamps. Your real ones come from your transcript.
Why it matters
Chapters move the needle on discovery, retention, and accessibility. Only when the format is right.
YouTube chapters become Key Moments in Search.
When chapters parse correctly, YouTube turns them into the timeline progress markers and Google can lift them as Key Moments in search results. Wrong format and none of that happens.
Spotify and Apple Podcasts auto-detect timestamps.
Both platforms scan show notes for time codes and surface them as chapter navigation. Spotify needs at least 30 seconds between chapters. Apple wants HH:MM:SS. Get it wrong, no chapter markers.
Every platform has its own quirks.
YouTube wants 0:00. Spotify wants 30 seconds of breathing room. TikTok caps captions at 4,000. LinkedIn cuts off at 210. We encode the rules so you do not have to remember them.
Building a tool? One API call.
Same formatter, exposed via REST. Returns ready-to-paste text plus the platform constraints used. Auth with your API key.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer tsk_live_..." \ "https://transcribe.so/api/v1/transcriptions/4821/timestamps?format=spotify"
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