Nothing wrong in working forward - from content towards the audience building. But how many of you are working backwards where you already know your target audience -> shaping your content accordingly?
Just checking-in my people. best,
I figured everyone is busy building, I'd check-in what are you marketing? No need to share secret recipe -be as vague as you can. If there are tips and hacks you can share (no pitching please) for others to learn.
I'm building a video editor you control by typing: “cut the dead air”, “remove the ums”, etc. and 100s of operations.
During development and testing, it reported completing edits it never made. Once because the renderer didn’t support the requested operation. Once because the AI referenced segments that didn’t exist.
That’s probably the worst failure for this product. If the promise is “type it and trust the result”, it cannot claim success when nothing changed.
So now, if an operation changes nothing, it does fail. And if the renderer can’t do something, the AI isn’t allowed to offer it.
Currently testing it by editing videos for creators for free (manully) since this will go up online in a couple of days ( moving weights from local to online)
If you've got a long video sitting around, I'll edit it for free.
I built paperedits.com, you type what you want cut, edit, overlay, voiceover etc. and it does it. Works on my own footage, but I know where my boring parts are, so that proves nothing.
Send me a raw video and what you'd want edit, I'll send it back within 48 hours. Only thing I ask is feedback, good or bad, on whether the output was actually usable.
I'm initially doing 5 to start so I can turn them around properly. Max size per footage <5GB please.
DM me or comment here.
I've been editing my own videos for a while, mostly in Descript, and kept running out of credits and paying more than the work felt like it was worth. At some point I thought, this can't actually be that expensive to do. I've launched consumer products before. So I spent the last week tinkering using claude code. First attempt was Ollama with a 7B Qwen doing the whole thing; turned out to be a bad planner out of the box- inverted logic, ignored constraints, invented segment ids that didn't exist. After a lot of tests I split it: a frontier model handles planning, and local models handle everything else, which are the bounded tasks they're actually good at.
It works now for the things I need most, "cut the boring parts," "remove the fillers," "speed through everything except the demo," "mute the first two minutes." 44 operations work today, 6 partial, 15 not yet, and the full list is public because I twice caught it reporting an edit it never made. Next step is fine-tuning the local models to handle the harder stuff- long summaries, understanding actions in the video- so planning eventually comes home to local too. It's early: clone-and-build only, and validated against one 30-minute video so far.
Code: https://github.com/sarvob/paperedits
Would like feedback on two things: whether the scope is right (it decides which parts play and how fast, no pixel processing, no audio, no generated footage), and whether anything in the "working" column falls over on your footage.
I've been editing my own videos for a while, mostly in Descript, and kept running out of credits and paying more than the work felt like it was worth. At some point I thought, this can't actually be that expensive to do. I've launched consumer products before. So I spent the last week tinkering using claude code. First attempt was Ollama with a 7B Qwen doing the whole thing; turned out to be a bad planner out of the box- inverted logic, ignored constraints, invented segment ids that didn't exist. After a lot of tests I split it: a frontier model handles planning, and local models handle everything else, which are the bounded tasks they're actually good at.
It works now for the things I need most, "cut the boring parts," "remove the fillers," "speed through everything except the demo," "mute the first two minutes." 44 operations work today, 6 partial, 15 not yet, and the full list is public because I twice caught it reporting an edit it never made. Next step is fine-tuning the local models to handle the harder stuff- long summaries, understanding actions in the video- so planning eventually comes home to local too. It's early: clone-and-build only, and validated against one 30-minute video so far.
Code: https://github.com/sarvob/paperedits
Would like feedback on two things: whether the scope is right (it decides which parts play and how fast, no pixel processing, no audio, no generated footage), and whether anything in the "working" column falls over on your footage.
