Solo developer details lessons from building a scheduled short-video publishing pipeline

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A solo developer spent eight weeks building PilotReels, a tool that generates daily faceless short videos and posts them to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok. After an early bug caused duplicate hooks to publish, the tool added a manual approval step where users can edit scripts before rendering, which users said built trust. A second AI model judges generated scripts against a rubric and triggers regeneration when they fall short. Captions are built from timestamp-aligned voice output, and Arabic text required fixes for bidirectional ordering, line wrapping, and punctuation placement. Each pipeline stage stores its output under an input-derived key so retries skip completed work, and the system runs on a deliberately simple stack with a Postgres-backed job queue on a single cloud instance.

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