PureFeed+

Inspiration

Everyone — including us — doomscrolls. You open YouTube to learn one thing, and 40 minutes later, you're watching a raccoon eat grapes in slow motion. That eats up way too much of your time. That's why we created PureFeed+.

What it does

You go to YouTube to search for a tutorial, and bam — you're stuck scrolling. PureFeed+ is a website where you search for the same thing, but instead of getting lost, it gives you only the smart, helpful content.

If you try searching for something that’s not educational, it straight-up gives you nothing — and nudges you to search something better. No distractions, just the good stuff.

How we built it

We built a raw Node.js server and a fully custom frontend using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no frameworks.

On the frontend, the user types a search query

That query goes to the YouTube API

We take the results and run them through Gemini AI

Gemini uses a strict prompt we wrote to only allow videos that are educational or actually useful

If a video doesn’t meet that bar? It’s gone.

Challenges we ran into

Writing the Gemini filtering prompt so it wasn’t too loose or too strict

Making the 3D visual on the PureFeed+ screen

Accomplishments that we're proud of Making a clean 3D animation from scratch

Learning both the YouTube API and Gemini AI

Crafting a really effective prompt that filters content well

And honestly? Just shipping something that actually helps people focus again

What we learned

Time management during crunch time

How to make a raw Node.js server

How to build a raw frontend from scratch

And how to guide AI with very intentional prompting

*No frameworks. *

What’s next for PureFeed+

Smoother animations for the UI

Better performance and faster load times

Possibly a Chrome extension so people can use it right inside YouTube

watch video with headphones for better quality

Built With

• chatgpt-for-cleaning-up-some-css
• css3
• gemni-api
• html5
• javascript