YouTube creators often include dozens or even hundreds of external links in their video descriptions — affiliate links, personal websites, sponsors, downloads, or references. Over time, these links break, expire, or redirect to suspicious domains. This creates multiple issues: lost affiliate revenue, bad user experience, and in some cases, video strikes or takedowns due to YouTube’s automated spam detection systems flagging dead links.
Managing all these links manually is nearly impossible once a channel has hundreds of videos.
This tool connects directly to a creator’s YouTube channel via the official API, scans every video description, and checks each link for validity and potential risk.
Creators pay a monthly subscription based on the number of videos scanned.
Start with a simple MVP that uses the YouTube API to pull video descriptions and run a basic HTTP check on links. Offer it free to a small group of YouTubers to confirm the pain is real and gather feedback. Once validated, build a polished dashboard and launch on Product Hunt, Reddit’s r/NewTubers, and creator Twitter/X communities.
Source/inspiration: Podcast Episode (The Side Hustle Show)