Would love to see an automation that takes a new upload from one platform and submits it to several channels at once—maybe a scraper that posts to the rest, or connecting Make with Buffer (since TikTok has issues with that). What do you think?
That’s a reasonable idea, but keep in mind that the biggest channels usually avoid using APIs to post because the platforms may soft‑throttle automated submissions; they favor human‑generated content. Personally, I wouldn’t rely on a scheduled API either—I’d have real people post to the fan‑style pages I’ve set up. If you wanted to build it, a simple approach is to drop the raw video into a Google Drive folder, run it through a transcription service (like Whisper) to get the text, then use that transcript to create platform‑specific posts (different character limits for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). You can add accessory flows to pull images or citations from public sources, and finally push each piece out via the respective platform’s API—similar to what I show in my content‑syndication videos.
I appreciate you pointing that out. It's not a bad idea—we tried TikTok, but it didn't perform; we got no followers, likely due to how we warmed up the accounts. It shouldn't take much time to post across platforms, and it's a free win, so I should probably do it. I think there's probably value there.
Ideal customers are creators who are just starting to standardize their content, have around 10K–100K followers, are at the early stage of exponential growth, and are looking to outsource or work with a team to reduce costs. You can serve them by using a transcript to automatically generate posts for ten social platforms—either fully automated or with a person handling it. To find these leads, scrape Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube for channels in that follower range. For example, use a YouTube scraper with about fifty search terms to get roughly a thousand videos for $5, which corresponds to about six hundred creators. Take the top ten percent (about fifty to a hundred channels), sort them by subscriber count, and then use a YouTube channel scraper to pull contact details from video descriptions—Instagram, website, etc.—giving you Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles. With those contacts, take one of their long‑form YouTube videos and use your system to create customized content for each platform at a marginal cost of just a few cents. Finally, run personalized outreach based on the video or another asset, ensuring each message includes some level of customization.
I start by scraping AI‑focused news sites and subscribing to newsletters that feed the latest developments into a content pipeline. I then use AI to draft scripts, make minor tweaks, and load fifteen scripts into a teleprompter to record them in one take — about fifteen minutes of footage. I send that raw video to my editor, Shub, who cuts it into individual shorts, adds thumbnails, and prepares them for posting. Leads come primarily from the newsletter funnel: I’ve gathered a few thousand subscribers, with roughly twenty‑five hundred new sign‑ups in the past thirty days, which then feed into my other offers. I’m still refining lead tracking, but the newsletter is the main source.
Here's the exact SOP I set up yesterday: it's a self-regulating shorts pipeline that editors run with no supervision from me. When I upload a raw file to a Google Drive folder called 'footage,' a Make.com automation watches that folder, creates a parent folder named after the file (e.g. 'daily short Feb 24'), and inside it makes two subfolders — 'source' and 'deliverable.' The raw file gets moved into 'source,' and that same info creates a task in a ClickUp pipeline with statuses: queue, timestamps, editing, ready to publish, and publish. Editors watch the source video, add subtask timestamps for good clips ('23s to 59s,' etc.), then move the task through editing themselves. When they're done, they drop the finished file into 'deliverable' and move the task to ready-to-publish — both a top-level deliverable link and a file-specific link get generated, and I've tagged a few draft channel names to publish to. Someone then manually publishes them for me. I could fully automate that last publishing step via API, but I've read enough (admittedly informal) studies from other creators showing automated/API-published Shorts get substantially less reach, so I don't recommend it — I'm having my team handle that step by hand instead. You're welcome to just take the blueprint for free — I'll probably keep adding to the system, so check back for updates.