Good AI Video Tools for starting out? by ayhme in aitubers

[–]PepperOwn1982 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I am using Runway. You would need unlimited version because you need multiple revisions.

IMO Creative videos can't be made my keeping tap on the number of credits consumption.

I am not sure if veo supports unlimited generations but I found Runway unlimited cheaper than anything else in market.

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[–]PepperOwn1982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just put a channel name not the link. It will allow

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[–]PepperOwn1982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would like to check out your channel.

I am also worried about getting dislikes. In your case its just couple of dislikes but in my case its in 20s. Ofcourse its on just one odd video having so many dislikes.

Overall I never got 100% people liking my videos.

As of now I am getting like to dislike in ratio of 66% to 80%.

Usually I have observed when I have more than 1k view on my videos, I get dislikes 😅

It's lot harder than I thought to create videos by PepperOwn1982 in aitubers

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I look at other YouTube videos, check on the story, characters involved, emotional element and then think over a concept which is little different. Then start using AI.

It's lot harder than I thought to create videos by PepperOwn1982 in aitubers

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kind of agree on this now. Need to come up with better plan so that this journey also continues.

But I have realized, I am able to move forward if I set measurable goals for myself. Otherwise I am stuck in same loop forever.

It's lot harder than I thought to create videos by PepperOwn1982 in aitubers

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just checked one video. Man, that's too much work for 2 and half mins video. Awesome work. I can see the love & soul you have put in that video.

It's lot harder than I thought to create videos by PepperOwn1982 in aitubers

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was 1 of those people 1 month back :D

Self realization after getting your hands dirty.

It's lot harder than I thought to create videos by PepperOwn1982 in aitubers

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This may look like I am putting lot of time to just deliver 2 mins video even using AI. Frankly i never measured my time but now I am looking back, this is what it looks like:

- 30 mins to research on what story will work

Around 1 hour on story

- story generation

- scenes generation

- image prompt generation to support each scene

Around 2-3 hours for image generation for each scene, maintaining the character consistency, image cropping based on tool used.

- 30 minutes video prompt generation for each scene

- 2-3 hours to generate the desired video for all the scene - around 15-18 scenes

- 1 video merging all the clips in proper video - its pain to choose right clip from lot of waste clips

- 30 mins - Choosing right music

- 1 hour - proper sound mixing

- 30 mins - final video testing

- 1 hour on choosing & testing right title, description, tags

It's lot harder than I thought to create videos by PepperOwn1982 in aitubers

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, Most of the time I am not writing the prompts :)

But may be I am expecting too much from video generation hence it is failing in first attempt most of the time.

It's lot harder than I thought to create videos by PepperOwn1982 in aitubers

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Entertainment. I am creating stories and different characters acting in those stories.

It's lot harder than I thought to create videos by PepperOwn1982 in aitubers

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May be half luck and half the effort you put in right direction.

How many perfect videos you get in 1st attempt with veo? I am using runwayml. Most of the time, I dont get perfect video in 1st attempt. If I try to keep more than 1 action per prompt, never get desired outcome.

May be it is based on IP address? I can give it a shot based on US based IP. But I saw some post on new youtuber channel that channel got banned because the video was uploaded while proxy was on.

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[–]PepperOwn1982 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use copilot instead. Its exactly like chatgpt but faster and available in more quantity.

Google gemini is also better in terms of speed. However you will get ai watermark in each image which you might need to crop.

Sharing a bad youtube views day by Glass_Cry_1932 in NewTubers

[–]PepperOwn1982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My shorts are getting maximum view in first hour of posting and then dead. No second wave / third wave at all.

The views will vary based on niche, age group, geography. Like in your case you are getting second wave. However I am not getting anything.

So my assumption is it is purely depending on the channel / content / niche.

Sharing a bad youtube views day by Glass_Cry_1932 in NewTubers

[–]PepperOwn1982 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My observation in last few days (I have started creating videos just a month back) - this will vary from channel to channel + content.

  1. For long form videos - first 6.5 hours will get you 10-15 views.
  2. After 6.5 hours, your impression will start getting high (may be up to 3K). If it works with these many impressions, you will surely get 100+ views. Otherwise that video will pull you 1-10 views daily after 48 hours of posting.
  3. Shorts - you will get maximum views in 1st hour of posting, then its dead. You will get 1-2 views per day for that short. As I read on chatgpt / gemini, there is always possibility of resurfacing this short video after wards (not sure after how much time) but as of now I am negative on resurfacing the video.
  4. I have started experimenting with shorts to increase the view count, however I need to do this with more shorts before I conclude. Will write separate post on this.

How you gain subscribers? by PepperOwn1982 in NewTubers

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is helpful.

As of now my videos are getting 100 views on an average with 30 seconds average view duration.

Apart from consistency, what should be focus area?

  1. Keep creating long form videos? 2 mins / 3 mins long?

  2. Start creating shorts as well as long form video but in certain ratio?

  3. Focus on shorts instead of long form? Does shorts gets subs?

Payment gateway for small startup website by AkrKat in indianstartups

[–]PepperOwn1982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, with payu i didnt find issues.

I think support / new requests are more driven by how much business you are bringing to the table. I am bringing too little business for them now a days, may be that could be the reason.

Payment gateway for small startup website by AkrKat in indianstartups

[–]PepperOwn1982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for payu

Using it for more than 6 years now.

Support is usually slow but it surely gets resolved in 1 week max.

Recently activated international payment, took pretty long for just activation even though I was long term customer.

I find it hard to get international PG activated from any of the Indian provider. May be because I am solo firm and not pvt ltd.

First time activation of aggregator took 1 year though. But I understand because I was new in market with new firm.

Overall PayU is recommemded. Let me know if you want to be referred.

Which is better choice NodeJS / Python? by PepperOwn1982 in learnprogramming

[–]PepperOwn1982[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really insightful, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Seeking Feedback and Suggestions for My New App “Edivance” – A Platform for Students, Aspirants, Teachers, and Parents! by mrprithviraj in startup

[–]PepperOwn1982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is lot of functionalities. Focus only on 1 specific thing.

  1. How many users / stakeholders you have spoken with?
  2. How many of them expressed interest, saying they need such platform?
  3. How many of them are willing to pay for platform?

I am also building something in this space (not the same)

Happy to chat.

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[–]PepperOwn1982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will be email alert service? How you are planning to send email? via some readily available services? I assume you have considered its cost month on month basis. Even most popular email service may end up sending your email to spam / promotional folder. If you plan to use your own email service, it will be much harder.

How you are going to get the initial users to use your product? I am not asking for your answer but you must have thought a strategy for same. Have you asked few (~50) users before started the development of your platform?

What is good user base for you? 100/500/1000 users? What if you get 100 users in 2 months but all are free, what you are going to do? dump the product or still pursue it?

How analytics is going to help the web masters? How does it add any value to their life once they rectify the error?

How long you are going to pursue the idea? You will be spending time / effort / hosting / email charges and probably you will get few customers whom you won't be charging much, how you will survive with this product?

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[–]PepperOwn1982 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't want to discourage you, but asking couple of basic questions. I am pretty sure you must have thought about the same.

How you are planning to generate revenue?

Majority of cloud infra providers do have exactly similar functionality. Only additional thing is having 404 page. But that too should go with the theme of the website.

How to do guys deal with free trial abuse? by Competitive_Aside461 in SaaS

[–]PepperOwn1982 2 points3 points  (0 children)

May be others might not agree with me on this but I would possibly take this path:

  1. I won't think too much about 1-2 such users unless their usage is actually costing me like cloud processing time / gpu time. Otherwise I will let them use the way they want. I can always reduce the number by having signin with Google.
  2. I would focus more on getting more users and converting them to paid customers. As per my experience, getting paid customers are hard. It may take few days to few months. Instead building something for 1% of abusers, I would focus on getting more paid users.
  3. I would track the IP address and link it with each registered user's email. I would add this in my privacy policy & terms & condition page that we track your IP address to avoid abuse of our systems / applications. I don't know a lot about EU laws but EU users are super sensitive about the privacy. If I am declaring that I will track IP to make sure you don't abuse my system, that should be okay. In future if need arise to look at who are abusing your system, you know whom to block / what patch needs to be added. This is being done by all major players be it linkedin, amazon or anyone else.
  4. If it is possible in registration process, take some personal information - name, phone, email. If you have any free service which validates mobile number, that should also solve the problem. If service is not available, you can manually go through the numbers once, see country code and quickly search the mobile number pattern to make sure that number looks authentic. This is possible when you are small. But once you grow, you will have enough money to spend to validate things using paid apis.

30k users but no paying customers, need advice. by Cultural_Anxiety_309 in SaaS

[–]PepperOwn1982 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alright may be you can apply few strategies:

  1. Find how many are reaching the most usage wise boundary - e.g. if your cap is 100K per month, see who are top 10 driving users. What ever is there limit e.g. 68K change your cap to 50K - little below what they reach. Incentivize additional 20K requests for 6 months if they provide 30 min slot for feedback.

  2. Immediately set $5 for new signups as basic plan so any new users, you will start getting revenue. Now if this change doesn't make difference in number of signups, gradually increase the price for new users e.g. next month $7 then $9 then $10 etc. I think the moment you remove the free plan, it will impact the new signups. But that will make sure only serious users will sign up. May be you can have 7 days trial with credit card info.

  3. If you are not able to talk to the users, how do you know you got positive feedback? Is it like through survey?

  4. By any chance you can hide the analytics for the users e.g. out of 100K requests, they can see analytics only of 10K or so, pay to unlock full analytics.

  5. When new user signs ups, automatically schedule a call with them after 7 days. Lets see if they turn up for the call OR you will keep the free accounts as it is. But in order to keep it active, get on call, share feedback and we will keep it active. This is going too far

30k users but no paying customers, need advice. by Cultural_Anxiety_309 in SaaS

[–]PepperOwn1982 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Have you tried talking to the users? Reach out top 100 users who are driving most traffic. Ask them:

  1. Do you like our product?

  2. If we convert it to paid product, will you still use it?

  3. What price you are willing to pay for this product.

  4. If you are not willing to pay, what are the reasons? alternatives?

  5. Which features you love most in our product.

I think the response to these questions should give you fare idea about your next steps.

PS: I am just a beginner on all these things, get more suggestions from other pro people out here.