Klipse: AI video creation and publishing for content creators

Klipse turns a video idea into a finished short video with sound, then publishes it to YouTube. You go from an idea to a published video without editing anything by hand.

Klipse is my own product. I designed, built and shipped it myself, and it is not client work.

At a glance

Year
2026
Status
Live
Role
Design, development and launch, all done by me.
Stack
TanStack Start, React 19, Vite, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Tailwind CSS 4, Shadcn UI, MySQL on TiDB Serverless, Drizzle, Better Auth (email OTP and Google sign-in), Polar billing (Free, Starter, Creator and Empire tiers), Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare R2, Python FastAPI processor on GCP Cloud Run with GPU, Resend, Sentry, Axiom logging
Links

There is no public source code for this project.

What I built

The web app, sign-in, billing with free and paid tiers, the video pipeline, a separate processing service on GPU infrastructure, storage, email and monitoring.

My role: Design, development and launch, all done by me.

How it works

  1. You submit a video idea.
  2. Klipse writes one prompt that describes a video with several scenes. It uses Gemini 2.5 Flash for this, with OpenRouter as a fallback.
  3. A single call to a self-hosted video model (LTX-2.3) makes the video with synchronized audio.
  4. On the free tier, a watermark is added with FFmpeg.
  5. The finished video is stored in Cloudflare R2, and a webhook marks the job as complete.
  6. Klipse publishes the video to YouTube.

TikTok and Instagram publishing are on the roadmap. They are not built yet.

What I learned

I started with separate steps for script, images, voice and video encoding. Moving to one video model call that makes video and audio together removed three provider integrations. I also found that loading model weights lazily from cloud storage stalled the first job of each run for about 30 minutes, so I baked the weights into the container image.

Want something like this built?

If you need this kind of work, see my page on SaaS development for startups and founders. You can also see all my projects.