How are you planning on posting each short to multiple channels, and would it be possible to buy that automation?
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.
My task‑management process is based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) framework, adapted for apps like Godspeed. I use three bins: an inbox for every new thought, idea, or task; a to‑do list for urgent, non‑negotiable items; and a future list for important but non‑urgent items I want to get to later (some call it waiting). An archive holds completed tasks and everything else, though Godspeed doesn’t have a dedicated archive folder, so I just mark tasks as completed and use a combined inbox/to‑do approach. The workflow is: put every new thought in the inbox; after some time, do a prioritization step and sort the inbox items into to‑do and future; whenever you have a free moment, work on the to‑do items; if a new idea or task pops up while you’re working, add it to the inbox; at the next prioritization, move those new items to future or archive. This cycle repeats continuously. For example, while recording this video I had the thought ‘I need to get better at explaining this stuff.’ I placed it in the inbox; later, during prioritization, I moved it to to‑do. From there I drafted a simple way to explain Getting Things Done (GSD), memorized common meat‑protein amounts, checked the Lindy and Red Fin video descriptions to clarify anti‑scraping protections, organized the blueprint library, added Perplexity to my content‑generation system in Make.com, noted rebuilding the content‑generator flow in Ed End as waiting, customized the Loom video system (waiting), created a high‑quality tweet and pennant (waiting), bought boxers from a buddy (waiting), planned to visit the BL Restaurant in Halifax (to‑do), and noted rebuilding Left Click’s website (to‑do). After processing, my inbox is clear, my mind feels quieter, and the waiting list gives me a searchable backlog—I can easily search completed tasks. This structure lets me stay organized, think longer‑term, and maintain peace of mind while still being productive.
Yeah, sure, happy to help. You're probably talking about this. Hope everybody had a great Valentine's Day. Let's check this out. Yeah, so I believe, and I don't know for sure because I hired an editor to assist me with this, I believe it's all just Premiere Pro. Actually I'm like 95% sure it's Premiere Pro. Let me give you the exact editing workflow. So the Instagram's now at 14,200 subs, so I mean it's grown really quickly. I had a little experiment where I got my phone and turned Instagram notifications on, and basically every minute or so I get another one just like this. As you guys could see, it's just unbelievable, absolutely crazy. So we're getting a lot of people opting in for my offer, which is soon going to be a newsletter offer. For now I'm just getting people to subscribe. And you know, I guess I wanted to know what the hell are you doing to get these things done. Let me at least run you through my whole workflow, because if I can't give you a satisfying answer for editing, I might as well show you everything that we do. My editor, uh, let's just do. Editor will, well actually first of all, we have we source YouTube sorry Instagram ideas and this is basically an Instagram News Channel. To be clear, we'll just like talk about new AI tools and resources that come out, but we'll source Instagram post ideas from other creators and um newsletters. So we've signed up to I don't know how many newsletters but a lot, and then we're also using my system, which I detailed over here where essentially I show you guys how to set up like an Instagram parasite system that pulls from a giant list of Instagram profiles that are publishing reels, then transcribes those reels and then turns those into like AI LLM little snippets that we can turn into scripts. So we source Instagram posts, and then the editor edits the scripts, sends to me, and then um I haven't set this up yet but I have an Elgato teleprompter that I just bought before I was just using a really hacky one with some folded glass and stuff. Essentially I add all of the scripts onto one file and then I shrink the margin so that, like most of the time when people do teleprompter stuff, they have the text really wide and then I have to read it like this and you guys can kind of tell that my eyes are moving right. So I kind of shrink it down really really tight so it's right in the middle there right by the camera lens, and then I'll read it and you can't really tell that my eyes are moving a lot when I do it that way. Um, so then you know I basically go top to bottom and then I read like 15 or 20 scripts simultaneously, so I then record I don't know like 15 shorts and then I upload to a Google Drive and then my editor uh posts for me, which is great. And we're not doing like Instagram scheduled posts; I should note that if you like schedule or use the API to make a post, they are going to necessarily rate limit reach you. I don't think I've fully dried my hair cuz I have drips all over that's rough. Um, Instagram will necessarily sort of like you know limit your reach, so we're actually doing those manually. And I actually just got um I just got verified, and I think my growth has been um about the same basically every day, so it's about I don't know, it's like around 800 new new subs a day. I want to say much faster than my YouTube of course, which is nice. So yeah, that's more or less the whole flow, and I'm pretty sure he he edits it in Premiere Pro. I'll ask though.
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.
Sure. My YouTube channel is a great example of process optimization over automation. I’ve built a workflow that minimizes the time and energy needed to produce daily videos. I have two OBS instances set up with a hotkey that starts recording both at once – one for the face‑cam shorts and one for the full video with a picture‑in‑picture box. I follow a written flowchart that tells me exactly what to do next: record, do the Q&A, present the brand stats, then do the live work. All the steps are scripted, and after recording I upload the video, which automatically posts to YouTube via Auphonic. This system lets me produce consistent daily content with minimal manual effort, freeing up time for other tasks.