For people who watch three-hour videos

Share the 47 seconds, not the three hours.

Cutaway turns any moment of a long YouTube video into a short clip with its own link. Mark in, mark out, send it — your friends watch the part that matters, not a timestamp buried in a lecture.

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Category Theory for Programmers — Lecture 7 · YouTube full video 3:12:44
“the part where he finally explains monads” 54:12 → 54:59 · 47s · cutaway.link/x9k2

One long video in. One 47-second clip out — with a link back to the exact spot in the original.

How it works

No editor, no downloading, no re-uploading. Clipping a moment should take about as long as the moment itself.

STEP 1

Paste a YouTube link

Drop in any video — a lecture, a podcast, a full match. Cutaway opens it in a player built for finding moments.

STEP 2

Mark in, mark out

Hit I when the good part starts and O when it ends. Nudge the handles until it's exactly right.

STEP 3

Share the link

You get a short link that plays just your clip — and always credits and links back to the original video and creator.

Moments worth 47 seconds of someone's time

The best part of a long video is usually under a minute. That's the part people actually watch.

“this is the cleanest explanation of backprop I've seen”

from a 2:07:31 deep-learning lecture

1:22:05 → 1:23:11 · 66s

“the exact moment the interview goes off the rails”

from a 3-hour podcast episode

2:41:19 → 2:41:58 · 39s

“the only 50 seconds of this tutorial you need for the bug”

from a 48-minute coding walkthrough

31:02 → 31:52 · 50s

“watch this save. just watch it.”

from a full 90-minute match replay

1:07:44 → 1:08:03 · 19s

Timestamps weren't built for sharing

A timestamp link says “good luck”

It drops your friend into hour two of a lecture with no idea where the moment ends. Most people close the tab before it gets good.

A clip says “watch this”

It starts at the right second, ends at the right second, and plays anywhere you paste it. Forty-seven seconds, zero scrubbing.

Your library of moments

Every clip you cut is saved to your library — the best 47 seconds of everything you've ever watched, searchable and ready to reshare.

Creators keep the credit

Clips aren't ripped downloads. Every clip names the creator and links back to the full video at the exact moment, so good clips send viewers to the source.

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