Youtube Phrase Counter

Every build starts as a favor shaped like a sentence: “I'd like to create a YouTube plugin that scrapes video transcripts and returns a count of specific phrases.” Nine words, and underneath them, four decisions nobody had made yet: where the data comes from, what the interface even is, how forgiving the matching should be, and how much of the internet an extension is allowed to quietly talk to. What follows is that build's own transcript: what got decided, what broke, and the two moments a five-word requirement from the person who actually has to use the thing changed the roadmap.