Podcast clipping as a service

🧾 receipts

• OpusClip (the productized version)$10M+ ARR by 2024 selling exactly this output as a SaaS — your service version sells the curation + brand fit they don't get from the SaaS
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• Castmagic + Vizard + Riverside Magic Clips (productized peers)podcast-clipping is a >$100M/yr productized category. The done-for-you service lane wins on clip quality + topic curation per show.
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🚀 how to start

1. 01Pick 5 podcasts you already listen to that DON'T have a robust clip channel. Prefer 50-500K-listener niche shows over big-name ones — you can offer real time savings without the agency-blacklist problem.
2. 02Build the pipeline: yt-dlp → Deepgram Nova-3 (word-level timestamps) → ClipsAI/LR-ASD for active-speaker detection → ffmpeg crop + caption-burner for word-by-word subs.
3. 03Run 5 free reels per show — title each one with their guest's actual punchline. Email or DM the host with the reels attached + your pricing.
4. 04Standard offer: $400-800/mo for 8 clips/episode + monthly highlight reel. Lock in a 3-month minimum so you amortize the pipeline-tuning cost.
5. 05After 3 clients, raise prices and turn down podcasts that don't fit your taste — quality moats over volume here.

🧰 required modules

Modules you'll want under your belt before you fire this move.

• Podcast Testimonial ClipsFake-podcast format that reads real in the feed
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💡 recommended modules

Helpful but not required — the polish-tier add-ons.

• Autonomous Agent on TelegramWire a Claude Code agent to a Telegram bot — it runs while you sleep
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• Telegram Bot OrchestrationSend, receive, react — build your own bot pipelines without a framework
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⚡ tools that power this

• Deepgram Nova-3The speech-to-text that actually gets word-level timestamps right.
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• ClipsAIThe open-source blueprint for podcast clipping. Study it, steal the patterns.
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• LR-ASDThe 2025 state-of-the-art for 'which face is actually talking.' Fast, tiny, accurate.
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• ffmpeg-staticBundled ffmpeg that just works — no 'your version is missing libfoo' errors.
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• The Clip LawEvery short-form clip = a mini-story. No story, no clip. Reject it.
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