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[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Joe Rogan uploads 2 to 3 hour episodes. You see 30 second clips. Someone cut them.

Creators pay $29 a month for AI to do that job.

A solo developer in China gave it away for free.

The repo is called AutoClip. 6,391 stars on GitHub. 1,253 forks. MIT licensed.

Every clip you save from a podcast, stream, or interview was cut from something longer. Streamers do not go viral from streams. They go viral from clips of streams. A 2 hour episode holds 15 to 25 viral clips. Finding them by hand takes 4 to 6 hours.

Here is what AutoClip does.

Paste a YouTube link. Or a Bilibili link. Or drop in a local video file. The AI reads the whole transcript, scores every moment for viral potential, cuts the highlights, adds captions, and hands you a folder of vertical shorts ready for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

Here is what makes it different from OpusClip.

- Runs locally on your laptop. Your footage never leaves your machine.
- Works with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Alibaba Qwen, or SiliconFlow. Pick whichever LLM is cheapest for you.
- No credit system. No monthly minutes cap. Process a 4 hour livestream if you want.
- MIT licensed. Fork it. Ship it in a product. Sell it. No permission needed.
- Docker one-line install. Runs in a browser tab at localhost:3000.

The stack: FastAPI backend, React frontend, Celery task queue, Redis, SQLite, yt-dlp for downloads, FFmpeg for cutting. One developer named zhouxiaoka wrote 89 commits and shipped the whole thing.

Here is the interesting part.

OpusClip raised $68 million in venture funding from SoftBank, Samsung Next, and DCM Ventures to build a subscription business around this exact workflow. The whole short form video AI market is priced like a SaaS product because most creators do not know an open source alternative exists.

One person in Hangzhou wrote it in his spare time and put it on GitHub. Six thousand people have starred it. One thousand two hundred have forked it.

One honest note. Last commit was 77 days ago on June 3. The maintainer is one person. Some features on the roadmap are still marked in development. If you want a polished product with a support team, pay OpusClip. If you want to own the tool that clips your videos, download this tonight.

The people who own the software own the workflow.

Your videos. Your AI. Your shorts.

(Link in the comments)

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@SubscribrAI What AI tool to create these videos?

[Bryan Ng @boomerrbryan]

There are kids making stupid money on YouTube by dressing up as tradesmen they've never been & the actual tradesmen have no idea it's happening...

One of them built an AI character called Kenji. Calm Japanese-American mechanic, work shirt, 40 years of experience that doesn't exist

9 videos. The top one did 68,000 views in 5 days. "The 2-minute A/C reset shops charge $200 for"

Every viewer is someone who got quoted $600 by a shop & went home googling whether they just got robbed. They watch Kenji, they trust Kenji, they buy Kenji's "Mechanic Hacks" ebook

The kid can't change oil. Doesn't matter

He mines r/MechanicAdvice, where real mechanics hand out 30 years of diagnostic knowledge for karma points, scripts it with AI & lets the costume deliver it. The whole business is other people's expertise wearing a uniform

Meanwhile the actual mechanic is out here paying Google for every click, complaining the internet killed his shop, while a costume of himself gets rich off his own knowledge. He will never find out. He doesn't search YouTube, he thinks it's for teenagers

Here's the funny part though...

The real guy wins this game on easy mode if he ever bothers to play. The kid's ceiling is an ebook because he has nothing else to sell. A shop owner runs the identical character, identical videos, & puts a phone number where the ebook link goes

200 local viewers holding real repair quotes = a booked calendar. The kid literally can't compete with someone who owns a garage

A voice memo on the drive home, the character delivers it, about $7 a video. That's the entire operation

Every trade is getting its Kenji whether the real ones show up or not

Run it up before some 19 year old who found your subreddit does

(we built the tool that runs the whole pipeline, script to finished video with the character. link in bio.)

[Sarvesh Shrivastava @bloggersarvesh]

call me crazy but..I genuinely believe I could take ANY local service business and get them to $100k/month using Claude Cowork for SEO.

here's exactly how I'd do it in 90 days (STEAL the exact playbook):

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

OpenAI and Anthropic engineers leaked a prompting technique that separates beginners from experts.

It's called "Socratic prompting" and it's insanely simple.

Instead of telling the AI what to do, you ask it questions.

My output quality: 6.2/10 → 9.1/10

Here's how it works:

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