Segue exists for one reason: on April 17, 2026, YouTube retired the viewer-side Clips feature, and the workflow it supported (pick a moment in someone else's public video, set a precise duration, share a player URL) went with it. The platform pointed users at Share-at-Timestamp, which only sets a start time. The gap between "I want the 30 seconds at 14:22" and "here's a link to the whole 47-minute episode" is exactly the gap Segue fills.
What it does
You paste a YouTube URL. You mark in and out points on the moments that matter. You can chain multiple clips into a single sequence (Free tier: up to 3 clips on one video; Pro: unlimited clips, multi-video mixing on the same channel). You get back one share URL (segue.video/m/<slug>) that plays the curated mix in a clean viewer with smooth transitions between clips.
Every play streams directly from YouTube. View counts, watch-time, and analytics credit go to the original creator the same as a normal YouTube embed. There's no re-upload, no re-encode, no re-host. Circumventing the creator economy is the fastest way to get a tool like this killed, so the architecture is intentional.
The Free tier requires no account and uses hash-encoded share URLs. Pro ($5/month, $29/year, or $59 launch-window lifetime) adds saved-mix history, custom short URLs, and the multi-video features.
Who created it
Segue was created by Nkemdilim Odili, a digital creative and singer. It is self-funded and bootstrapped.
Background: entrepreneur, founder, content designer, UX writer, photographer, videographer. A multi-disciplinary creative whose work spans visual identity, music, UX writing, and product. Photography lives at pixeltalesbynk.com; broader portfolio at nkem.design. When YouTube killed Clips on April 17, 2026, Segue shipped in response rather than waiting for someone else to fill the gap. The post-mortem on YouTube's decision lives in the blog; the deeper comparison against the deprecated Clips feature is at /alternatives/youtube-clips/.
Mission
The platform that broke this is now pointing users at tools like Segue to fix it. That's the framing. Not "we're better than YouTube," not "disrupt video sharing": just give people back the workflow that worked, on the same videos, at a single URL, for free, in the browser, with the original creators still getting credit.
Contact
Email: [email protected].
That's the fastest way to reach me: bug reports, feature requests, partnership ideas, "your tool just helped me do X" notes, and "your tool just broke for me" notes all land in the same inbox and I read everything.
Elsewhere on the internet:
- LinkedIn: work history and longer-form notes.
- PixelTales by NK: photography portfolio.
- nkem.design: broader design and creative work.