- Kshitij Bhatnagar
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- Two Cents Daily
Two Cents Daily
An AI run YouTube Shorts channel
Built by Kshitij Bhatnagar
A zero cost pipeline that picks a personal finance topic, writes the script, narrates it, times word by word captions and renders a vertical Short, then uploads it to the Two Cents Daily channel.
The spark
I wanted to test whether a faceless content channel could be run end to end by AI at zero cost, instead of paying for a stack of SaaS tools to do each step.
What was built
I built one Python script that runs the whole studio: a local model on Ollama picks the topic and writes a hook, analogy, stats and action script, edge-tts narrates it, faster-whisper times every word, free image search fills the frames, and the render adds word by word captions and a slow Ken Burns zoom before uploading through the YouTube API.
Architecture
- One script, topic to upload
- Word level timestamps drive caption sync
- Posting stays behind an explicit upload step
Highlights
- Vertical 1080 by 1920 Shorts
- Word by word animated captions
- Local LLM scripts, free neural voice
- Live channel with posted videos