[0:01]there. My name is Sam.
[0:04]For almost two years, I recorded almost
[0:07]800 videos on YouTube.
[0:12]I learned a lot from that experience.
[0:17]I learned how quickly people forget
[0:18]about old content.
[0:21]You make all these videos and
[0:24]nobody ever sees them because the
[0:26]algorithm doesn't surface them. You
[0:28]can't search for them easily
[0:32]even from your own profile page. You
[0:34]can't organize them in any kind of
[0:36]useful way.
[0:39]It flattens you
[0:42]and makes you compete with everybody
[0:43]else and makes it harder for people to
[0:48]track your journey
[0:52]or just a lot of issues. But these these
[0:54]are design issues. They they're
[0:56]deliberate, intentional.
[1:00]I created something that can help other
[1:02]creators.
[1:04]It's called autonomy.
[1:08]This is an infrastructure that I've been
[1:09]building over the past 6 months. I took
[1:12]800 videos.
[1:15]I imported them into my software.
[1:18]I had artificial intelligence process
[1:20]them, creating data and content.
[1:26]so that I could create my own catalog on
[1:28]my own website which is what you see
[1:30]here on the on the screen. So this is
[1:32]just the listings page transmissions
[1:34]what I they're my videos I call them
[1:36]transmissions.
[1:40]This is something that is I can
[1:42]replicate for others. There are so many
[1:45]ways that I could help other creators
[1:47]that are interested in this kind of
[1:48]technology. So, I thought I would just
[1:50]briefly take you through my website
[1:54]because it's kind of like a proof. It's
[1:56]demonstration of um proof of concept.
[1:59]My
[2:02]my channel is very different from most
[2:04]YouTube channels and just my my
[2:07]architecture, my orientation is very
[2:09]different. So, what I track will be very
[2:11]different from what other YouTubers,
[2:13]other creators would want to track.
[2:16]But it's all the same. It's all the same
[2:19]underlying architecture.
[2:22]This is
[2:25]something I can offer right now.
[2:28]So, this is an index page. Like I said,
[2:31]two years about 800 transmissions.
[2:35]This is just showing those videos all
[2:37]the way back to the beginning.
[2:39]If they have this horse has no contacts
[2:42]available, it means I haven't processed
[2:43]those ones with AI. I just haven't had
[2:45]the funds to do it, honestly. So, I
[2:48]process about half of my catalog. So,
[2:50]maybe go to about page up to page 20 if
[2:52]you really want to look around. But all
[2:55]you have to do is just look at a video.
[2:58]And I have artificial intelligence
[3:00]process it from four different
[3:02]perspectives. Surface, structure,
[3:04]patterns, and mirror. One that I think
[3:07]is most relevant for creators is the
[3:08]surface one because that one gives you
[3:11]the context of the video. Um, just the
[3:14]general context of what's happening, a
[3:16]summary. You can make descriptions,
[3:18]keywords, all the things that you would
[3:20]want to put into, you know, your YouTube
[3:22]description. I can create titles for
[3:25]you, hashtags. I also have an extract,
[3:28]what actions took place in the video,
[3:31]what things I talked about. I call them
[3:32]entities, you know, basically nouns,
[3:35]this person or this this thing that
[3:37]matters to me, and tags. And all of
[3:40]these can be turned into searchable
[3:42]links. You can click on them to see
[3:45]other videos that are related. On my
[3:47]side, you cannot click on these because
[3:50]I'm going a different direction with
[3:51]this. This is something that I can
[3:53]provide to others if they're interested,
[3:55]if they want to help fund it. And that
[3:57]is uh creating a vector database. I
[4:00]don't want to get too technical on this
[4:01]video, but basically, you can you can
[4:04]put the data into a different type of a
[4:07]database where it doesn't just search by
[4:09]keywords. So if um Oregon coast, if you
[4:14]were to click on that, there could be
[4:15]variations of that and it would find
[4:17]them because it finds them by resonance.
[4:19]It's a whole different way of grouping
[4:22]um clustering content together,
[4:24]clustering videos together. I got this
[4:27]little timeline feature. There's all
[4:29]kinds of things that I could do for
[4:30]author's sake. They wanted to have their
[4:32]own archive online.
[4:36]Build all of this in pretty much just
[4:38]about anything they want. I've been
[4:40]programming since the sixth grade. I
[4:41]taught myself. I'm getting off topic
[4:43]here. Um, so that would be the surface
[4:46]one. I don't think the other ones are
[4:48]particularly relevant for for most
[4:50]others. This is uh this is the stuff
[4:52]that I track. Um,
[4:57]so another feature that I built into my
[5:01]infrastructure is a subscription layer
[5:03]because my content is very dense and
[5:06]recursive and the default way that
[5:09]people tend to interact with you on
[5:12]YouTube is very um very shallow, often
[5:16]trollish, and I call it distortion. I
[5:19]just didn't want to deal with that. I've
[5:20]turned comments off on my videos for
[5:22]well over a year.
[5:24]And
[5:27]it just got to the point where I felt
[5:29]like uh my audience was consuming me.
[5:31]There wasn't any reciprocity. And I just
[5:34]decided I wanted to build a layer into
[5:37]what I have been building here for
[5:38]autonomy where if somebody subscribes to
[5:42]watch these videos, they're more aligned
[5:45]with me. So I I just feel like it's an
[5:47]important access layer and others might
[5:50]want to use that for different reasons.
[5:51]you might just want to have a
[5:52]subscription service with tiers, things
[5:54]like that. Um,
[5:57]yeah, I just built that. I finished
[5:58]today. Um, right now I'm waiting on the
[6:01]payment processor paddle to approve my
[6:03]account in order for this this page to
[6:06]start working. Right now, you can um
[6:08]subscribe to this. If if this message is
[6:11]here, then then I'm still waiting. If if
[6:14]they for some reason don't approve me,
[6:16]there are other routes that can go, but
[6:17]that's the one that I chose. That's the
[6:18]one that felt aligned for for me. And
[6:21]that stuff I can build for others too.
[6:23]But I already have an account. So I'll
[6:24]just sign in here.
[6:33]Once you're signed in, you have access
[6:35]to more content because I just I'm
[6:37]gating some of it. I give them access to
[6:40]patterns. See, I'm even tracking the
[6:42]language used in a video
[6:45]mirror, which is
[6:48]it's very central to um
[6:52]everything that I'm building on this
[6:54]website. I just I don't think it's very
[6:55]related to most YouTubers, but I think
[6:57]that you might find it interesting if
[6:59]you want to look around and look at this
[7:00]sort of stuff.
[7:05]There's a lot that I could probably show
[7:06]you on my website, but I just um I think
[7:09]I'm going to Okay, I'll just also add
[7:12]So, I'm adding Well, no. I'm going to
[7:14]leave it there. I'm going to leave it
[7:16]there.
[7:23]I worked on this project
[7:28]under absolute
[7:30]under absolute scarcity
[7:33]on the edge of survival
[7:42]which I know is not something everybody
[7:45]could do
[7:49]For me, the point of saying that is if I
[7:53]can build this under scarcity, imagine
[7:56]what I can build when I have a line
[7:57]support. And I just haven't found that
[8:00]yet. I tried for two years on my YouTube
[8:02]channel. It just never materialized.
[8:04]But I can offer my technology to other
[8:06]YouTubers who maybe have have different
[8:09]communities that are
[8:13]are more functional than mine are or you
[8:16]just have a higher tolerance what for
[8:17]what I call fragmentation or you know
[8:24]I guess you could say that
[8:27]I'm
[8:29]I'm making an offering
[8:32]that feels aligned.
[8:37]See if anyone else agrees.