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We added the fade-in video generator

What the fade-in video generator is

It allows the user to create a quick 5 second video which could go viral and serve as a source of users and customers. Upload an Image, Song and a text, and it will quickly generate a video. It is private, the current version (as the publication date) has an only a frontend interface which leverages ffmpeg wasm to generate the video.

The fade-in feature allows you to create a video in YawningStudio and then upload it to a youtube channel. It is ideal for a brand (personal or commercial) that needs to create and upload many videos to, in aggregate, reach a wide audience.

How it looks in the first version

There are two columns, in the left one you input the image, song and the text and on the right column the final video is shown. Here is a real life scenario of a video which I created for the Yawning Block project which is a project that tackles digital addiction. As you can see the video was generated in only 10 seconds. Yawning Studio !!

If you are curious how it works technically

  • You will input a video, song and a text
  • The first time you come to the page, ffmpeg wasm will load (a big file)
  • Leveraging ffmpeg wasm, the first frame of the video will be created
  • The script then adds a fade-in effect to the frame, and adds 5 seconds from the song
  • It shows it in a player so the user can visualize and download

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We added the Vlog feature for Indie Hackers

What it is and who it helps

The Vlog feature allows you to record a video directly in YawningStudio and then upload it to a youtube channel. It is ideal for Indie Hackers that need to upload daily videos explaining what they have done and learned that day.

If you are curious how it works technically

  • It asks for camera an microphone permission
  • You record your video (it’s in the frontend for now)
  • When you click upload video, it will upload it to a blob storage, and then from that blob storage to youtube.

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Vertical content is too adictive and that's a problem

Pharmakon

There is an interesting word from ancient greek which is particularly interesting in our context: Pharmakon. It has been used to describe a poison but also an antidote. This duality reminds me of Yawning Studio because it’s both the poison and the cure:

  • It will flood the internet with even more content.
  • It will also allow me an others to reach users to give them tools that will destroy online addiction.

Why I created Yawning Studio

Yawning Studio has been created to help me in my journey against online media addiction, a subject I’ve been obsessed about for years. I have many channels on tiktok, Instagram, youtube, twitter, that will eventually allow me to reach millions of addicted people. Yawning Studio has also the aim of producing money. This money will subsidise the efforts of Yawning Block

Yawning Studio has two purposes:

  • Allow me to reach millions of users and give them a solution to their addiction.
  • Fund the efforts to give them this solutions to addiction.

Concluding thoughts

In conclusion, I want to fight social media addiction and for that I need money as well as reach. I can get both money and reach through Yawning Studio.

The motivation to build Yawning Studio

First experiences with social media schedulers

Yawning Studio simplifies the life of the junior content creator. It’s for people who don’t have a lot of time or money to invest in this social media thing. It’s for people like me, and maybe you.

April 2024 I needed to create content for my mums little business. I soon understood that managing a bunch of social media is hard and time consuming. I tried some tools to post for free.

First of all, Buffer. Buffer is big and strong, and many people use it. But the free plan is very limited. It has

  • Limited channels
  • Only one channel of each tipe (Only one YouTube channel available, for instance)
  • Uninteresting pricing, you need to pay for each channel

I also tried Odoo Social posts: Odoo Social Posts Documentation

Odoo is a giant company and Social Posts is just a side-product they do. It does not have a nice UI and it’s not that great to use. It is also limited in what social media you can add, how much channels, etc.

I recommend you to try this two options, they might be perfect for you. But they where far from perfect for me.

2025 - I REALLY need a good social media post scheduler

In 2025 I embarqued to a 1 year journey to create beautiful products, but most importantly, necessary products. I’m working on digital addiction.

I tried Jack Friks social media scheduler,Post Bridge, and is impressive. It is made by a creator, for creators. And since I’m a creator, it looks very close to what I need. You can for 27 dollars:

  • Connect UNLIMITED accounts (that’s crazy good)
  • Make UNLIMITED posts
  • Access to special features like growth consulting, content studio (for content creation directly on the platform)
  • It looks beautiful and is SUPER simple to use

Now, let me speak about the negatives:

  • No API
  • Videos limited to 100MB and 120s
  • No backup or memory: very dangerous, you can loose stuff if you have bad internet like me
    • Failed uploads from time to time
    • No Draft posts
    • You can loose videos that you create in studio
    • It does not save projects in studio at all, you always have to start from scratch
  • Very limited studio, only two templates that you can’t play with to modify
  • No analytics page
  • No batching: you can’t upload multiple videos, everything has to be made into a unitary level
  • There are a lot more, although I like to focus on the positive

Post Bridge is great, this is as good as this kind of tool will get.

The cost-benefit analysis of creating my own tool

Since I’m gonna be posting every day for a year, I need to do some simple math and cost-benefit analysis. If I do, let’s say, 7 hours of marketing weekly and publish 100+ posts a week, that would be:

  • 365 hours of work in 2025
  • +5000 posts in 2025
  • Multiple hundreds of dollars if I pay Buffer, Odoo or Post Bridge

I can’t help but knowing that as a developper, I can create a posting and studio tool myself and tailor it exactly to my needs.

The three platforms I used have their good and bad side. Specially Post Bridge is pretty good for creators. But there are lack of features that I can’t ignore.

What Yawning Studio brings to the table:

Let’s list very important features:

  • Connect unlimited account
  • Make / schedule unlimited posts
  • Very complete content studio with templates as well as video editing
  • API
  • Big / long videos supported
  • Memory: you can draft to finish later. You wont loose stuff if you loose electricity or internet
  • Projects: in the projects page you will be able to build automatic pipelines that know exactly what channels to post, how to schedule, etc.
  • Analytics page
  • Batching: you can upload multiple videos
  • Channel nicknames and groups
  • Extensive support to platforms: we will include every possible platform even niche ones.

There are probably features that I’m working on that I forgot to describe here. You going to heard more about this project in the feature. In the meanwhile, if you have a feature request, you can join the discord channel.

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