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I’m building an AI documentary channel is short-form the wrong game to play?

I’m building an AI documentary channel called ORIGIN and I’m starting to think about the business side of it.

The idea is pretty simple: use AI video tools like Seedance to create short documentaries around interesting stories, events, people, inventions, places, etc.

I’ve been looking at the monetization potential across YouTube Shorts, TikTok and X.
The numbers are interesting, but it’s also made me realise that chasing “$ per million views” probably isn’t the smartest way to look at it.
If a video gets 10M views but the audience doesn’t stick around, you haven’t really built much.

The bigger play seems to be:
Short-form → discovery → YouTube long-form → audience → sponsorships/other revenue.
I’m curious what people who are already running faceless/AI-assisted channels think.
Would you focus heavily on Shorts/TikTok for reach, or put more effort into building long-form YouTube from the beginning?

u/Ecstatic_Childhood20 — 10 days ago
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Product demo test

Go ahead, roast my app video. My first attempts at seedance. See if you can spot what frustrated most about this video

u/Ecstatic_Childhood20 — 16 days ago
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Finally finished my App Store screenshots

I've been building an iOS app called Clearingover the past few months to help people quit vaping.
One thing I wanted to avoid was the usual "you failed, back to day zero" approach that a lot of quit apps take.

Instead, I'm trying to make it feel more compassionate and supportive something you'd actually want to open during a craving.
Some of the ideas include:

A calming "Craving Mode" with things to do for a few minutes until the urge passes.
Tracking money saved in a way that feels rewarding.

Progress that's based on growth, not guilt.
A mascot that changes as you recover.
I finally put together the App Store screenshots (attached), and before I submit them I'd love some honest feedback.

If you came across this on the App Store:
Would you understand what the app does?
Which screenshot grabs your attention first?
Is anything confusing or unnecessary?
Would this make you curious enough to download it?

I'm not looking for compliments I genuinely want to improve it before launch. Any feedback is appreciated.

u/Ecstatic_Childhood20 — 17 days ago
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I think Fable 5 changed what the real bottleneck is

I think Fable 5 has exposed something we weren’t ready to admit.
The bottleneck isn’t coding anymore.
It’s knowing what to build.
I’ve spent the last few days throwing increasingly difficult product ideas at Fable 5, and almost every time the implementation was the easy part.
The hard part was making decisions:
What features actually matter?
What’s the simplest architecture?
What should the user experience be?
What’s worth saying no to?
A year ago AI was helping me write code.
Now it feels like code is the cheapest part of building software.
Anyone else noticing this shift?

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u/Ecstatic_Childhood20 — 2 months ago
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👋Welcome to r/Vibebuild

Welcome to Vibebuild
If you’re here, you probably believe the same thing we do:

AI isn’t replacing builders,it’s creating a new generation of them.

Whether you’re vibe coding your first app, building AI agents, launching a SaaS, automating your workflow, or experimenting with the latest frontier models, you’re in the right place.

This community exists for people who build.
Not just people who talk about AI.
Not just people who repost news.
Not just people chasing hype.
We want to see what you’re creating.

What to share
🚀 Apps and projects you’ve built
🤖 AI agents and automations
💡 Startup ideas and MVPs
💰 Revenue milestones and wins
🛠️ Workflows that save time
🧠 Prompt engineering techniques
📊 Model comparisons and benchmarks
📚 Resources worth learning from
❓ Challenges you’re stuck on
💥 Lessons learned from failures

Our philosophy
Build.
Ship.
Learn.
Repeat.
Every project teaches you something. Every failure makes the next build better.
Whether your project has 10 users or 10 million, if you’re building, you belong here.

Community Rules
Be helpful.
Share what you’ve learned.
Give constructive feedback.
Celebrate people who ship.
No gatekeeping.
No AI doomposting.
No spam or self-promotion without contributing to the community.

Introduce yourself 👇
Tell us:
Where you’re from
What you’re building
Your favourite AI model
One project you want to ship this year

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u/Ecstatic_Childhood20 — 2 months ago
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I got tired of spending half a day, often more on competitor reports, so I built a tool that does it in minutes

I work in brand strategy, and competitor/social reporting was eating my time manually pulling
what brands' competitors were doing across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and the web, then
writing it up into something presentable.
So I built Signal.

You point it at a brand's competitors, it pulls their recent activity, analyses it,
and exports a presentation-ready report. The half-day job, done in minutes.

Stack if anyone's curious: React front end, Google's Gemini with live search grounding doing the
analysis, Google Sheets as a lightweight data layer.
Coverage: South Africa is deepest; US & UK are live but the brand database is still limited and
growing. If your category's in there you'll get a full report in minutes if not, tell me and I'll add
it.

It's in private beta and I'm letting early users in free before it goes paid. Happy to answer
anything about how I built it and if you do this kind of work and want to try it, say so and I'll
sort you out.

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u/Ecstatic_Childhood20 — 2 months ago