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Pattern-based searching surfaces uploads excluded from recommendation engines. Spin to discover, adjust to refine, watch to decide.

Founded year: 2025
Country: United States of America
Funding rounds: Not set
Total funding amount: Not set

Description

Stratatube allows you to expose the layers beneath the standard YouTube algorithm. This tool helps you explore content more deliberately by using pattern-based searching to find hidden videos that exist beyond traditional rankings and recommendations.

Instead of an algorithm deciding what you see, Stratatube uses patterns, reusable search templates, you can customize before running a search. Patterns help surface uploads with minimal descriptions, default filenames, or little engagement history. Not every video will be interesting, some are quiet, some are odd, but you're seeing things most people never will.

Instead of typing exact keywords, you spin combinations of eras, patterns, and parameters drawn from real upload behaviors like time periods, naming habits, or metadata quirks. It is not randomness for its own sake. Each spin builds a valid, inspectable search that you can tweak before running. The result feels more like exploration than querying.

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