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How I got 100+ Subscribers after 3 YouTube videos - my journey

For a year, I dreamed of sharing my knowledge on YouTube. I watched creators explode overnight. I knew I could too. But I kept waiting. Procrastination held me back.

I’ve been deep into AI, Python, and automation for 2 years. My agency, ByteClick.co, saw success across various industries. I gathered insights from countless projects. I felt ready to share that wealth of knowledge.

Language was a maze. I didn’t know which language to choose. My mother tongues are French and Arabic. I moved to Germany 10 years ago. I studied engineering in German. So I’m fluent in German too. And then there’s English.

I struggled with content calendars and ideas. Bullet points and automated lists failed me too. It felt hollow.

Then I hit a turning point. I decided to make ONE video. It didn’t need to be perfect. I was a perfectionist, but I knew that was a trap. The topic didn’t matter. I swore: No more searching for the perfect idea. Just start. I picked lead nurturing and research. I chose English because I knew I would have much better and quicker results which I know motivates me the most. And I wanted to improve my speaking skills too.

Next, I found a method. I watched outlier videos in my niche. I asked: How can I make this better? I added my personal touch. More depth. Simpler clarity. Shorter or longer when needed. As the French say: “Les artistes copient, les génies volent.” (“Artists copy, geniuses steal.”) Make it your own.

I made a “to do” playlist. Every video I planned to redo went there. I wrote down what to change with my twist. And I began. Next time I want to record a video, I just pick (sometimes even randomly) one and start off. No overthinking.

My learnings after almost 4 weeks: I learned the first few seconds are everything. I shared my screen energetically. Rapid cuts, dynamic visuals. Hook the viewer right away. If needed, hire an editor. That first minute must pop.

Short videos under 20 minutes became my goal. Higher watch time, less effort. Frequent uploads > one long video a month. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Now I focus on specific, short topics. More videos. Quick results. Constant adaptation. Every new subscriber fuels my drive.

From hesitation to 100+ subscribers in 3 videos—it wasn’t magic. It was a mix of strategy, persistence, and bold first steps. After years in AI and automation with ByteClick.co, sharing my journey felt right. I hope my story inspires you to start too.

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2025/01/19
07:46 UTC

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How much would you pay monthly for a service that automates your social media posts?

I was wondering if there was a service that automates your social media posts, with it being personalized to your industry and your branding, constantly creating you new post for every week including images, videos, slides, allowing you to edit every content and then posting it to socials like Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook automatically How much would you pay for it monthly?

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2025/01/19
07:28 UTC

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I auomated Youtube Kids with Python And Went Viral (Source Code Available)

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2025/01/19
06:41 UTC

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Has anyone built an automation to auto-apply for jobs?

Nothing’s worse than manually applying to job listings one by one. Has anyone successfully built an automation to auto-apply on platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, or anything else? Looking for something slick that handles the grind for you. Let me know.

4 Comments
2025/01/19
02:12 UTC

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ChatGPT Query Param search automation

Hi, I'm writing a quick automation to search for a search string with ChatGPT. It works with

https://chatgpt.com?q=<mySearchString>

But I'm trying to pass in the query param to a GPT inside ChatGPT who's URL is https://chatgpt.com/g/g-GvcYCKPIH-video-summarizer?q=<mySearchString>

this doesn't work. Anyone knows how to pass in a search query to a GPT inside ChatGPT?

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2025/01/18
22:00 UTC

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How to Automate Blogging and Social Media Content Using RSS and AI?

I recently started using the Ultimate Blog Automation Blueprint from AAAS.ma/ , and it’s completely transformed how I handle content creation. Here’s how it works and why it’s been such a game-changer for me:

How It Works

Competitor Content Monitoring:

The blueprint lets you set up an RSS feed to track your competitors’ blogs or any website in your niche. Every time they publish a new article, the automation scrapes the content (ethically, of course) and uses it as inspiration for your own unique posts.

SEO Optimization:

The AI analyzes the focus keywords from the scraped content and rewrites titles, articles, and meta descriptions to match your unique style and SEO preferences. This ensures your content is always optimized for search engines.

Custom Thumbnails:

No more spending hours designing thumbnails! The automation creates eye-catching thumbnails using Google Slides and your predefined templates.

One-Click Publishing:

Once your post is ready, the blueprint publishes it directly to your website and shares it across all your social media platforms. It’s as easy as clicking a button.

Find it on this website aaas.ma/

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2025/01/18
19:42 UTC

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Linkedin Auto-Comment automation

I was looking for the system that a lot of people use on Linkedin to answer automatically to people commenting a certain keyword. E.g. I make a post telling people to comment "template" to get my new notion template, and everyone who does gets it in the DMs.

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2025/01/18
16:10 UTC

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Need feedback on an automated onboarding system

Hey everyone,

I’ve developed an onboarding system that integrates with your Calendly account to suggest optimal time slots to users who fill out a lead form based on your availability. I’d appreciate your feedback and any suggestions you might have

the workflow:

  1. Lead Form Submission: A user fills out a lead form.

  2. Calendly Integration: A Calendly module retrieves all your scheduled events (meetings) within your defined work hours (9 AM - 5 PM).

  3. Data Processing: Through aggregation, iteration, and JSON parsing, the system analyzes your schedule.

  4. Identify Unavailable Slots: It sets a variable for “Unavailable Time Slots” in the format “HH:mm A - HH:mm A; HH:mm A - HH:mm A…etc.”

  5. Determine Available Slots: A chat

completion module calculates “Available Time Slots” by excluding the unavailable periods.

  1. Email Notification: An email is sent in HTML format, featuring a dropdown menu of all available time slots.

  2. Scheduling: When the user selects a time slot, they’re directed to the specific date and time page on Calendly. They simply enter their name and email, then click “Schedule.”

  3. Data Recording: Multiple steps ensure all information about the lead, meeting start and end times, and status are recorded.

I’m also considering adding a WhatsApp Business module to complement the email notifications. This would allow sending available time slots and Calendly backlinks via WhatsApp. However, I’m unsure how to format and send the available slots through WhatsApp similarly to how it’s done with HTML emails.

I prefer not to use any paid chatbot services like Chatbase.

  • Any ideas on improving the current workflow?

  • How can I effectively send available time slots through WhatsApp? Any tools or methods you’d recommend?

Any other feedback or best practices for onboarding systems would be great!

The attached image does not contain the data recording modules or the follow-up modules. I will integrate that once this is perfected.

13 Comments
2025/01/18
14:49 UTC

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N8N not triggering and failing

I'm curious about what have you implemented to help with the common problem of N8N workflows not even triggering and failing?

1 Comment
2025/01/18
09:35 UTC

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Make.com and YouTube Uploads

Hello fellow automation builders! I have a Make scenario that uploads and schedules youtube videos from a spreadsheet when they've passed QC. However, while everything looks good on the completed scenario, the YouTube Studio shows me the video with a 'Processing Abandoned' error. No other info or options other than to delete the video.

The YT account is verified. There is no issue with the video file itself as I can upload it with no problems manually.

Are there any legends here today who can help point me in the right direction?

5 Comments
2025/01/18
05:55 UTC

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AI chatbots - Which AI chatbot tool is the best for user interface customizations?

7 Comments
2025/01/18
05:48 UTC

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Need options to try to verify phone numbers with OTP.

I have been using SMSpool and OnlineSIM for phone number verification, but both services seem to have a significant number of blacklisted numbers in their pools. Could you recommend alternative services with a higher-quality pool of phone numbers? Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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2025/01/17
15:57 UTC

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How do you stop drowning in unqualified leads?

I’ve seen so many businesses waste hours chasing leads that go nowhere. Recently, I started experimenting with automating lead qualification, and honestly, it’s been a game-changer. It’s wild how much smoother things run when the junk is filtered out before it even hits your team.

How do you deal with this? Are you still doing it manually, or do you have some system in place? What’s been your biggest pain point when it comes to sorting through leads?

4 Comments
2025/01/16
20:21 UTC

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Auditing Workflows?

Hey all!

I was wondering if people have any recommendations or resources for how to audit your workflows to identify constraints and improvement opportunities + how to quantify potential benefits.

Really interested to hear if anyone’s got some thoughts on this!

2 Comments
2025/01/16
16:19 UTC

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Copy my Reddit agent prompt

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2025/01/16
13:27 UTC

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Package status (tracking info)

I'm looking to create a workflow to connect Gmail, Wix /Shipstation, ChatGPT, and a package tracking service (preferably a free one). I didn't find any simple solution to get latest package status and send this info back to gpt. Any suggestions?

2 Comments
2025/01/16
12:02 UTC

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Which automation platform(s) for my tax business?

Hi everyone,

I’m running a small tax agency in Germany, and I’m looking for advice on automating one of our workflows. I’ve been doing some research, but I’m a bit stuck figuring out the best tools to use—or whether I need a mix of them.

Here’s what I’m trying to achieve: 1. Client onboarding: • Clients fill out a form on our website, providing personal information and details about their case. • They also upload documents they’ve received from the tax office. 2. Case file processing: • Once we represent the client, the tax office sends us additional case files. • These are physical documents, so we’re planning to use a mail digitization service to scan and upload them. 3. Drafting responses: • Based on the scanned documents and the information the client gave us, we need to respond to the tax office. • Some of these responses are rule-based, but some require a bit more flexibility, ideally with AI to help draft the document. 4. Manual review: • Our tax experts need to review and possibly edit the drafted documents before they’re sent out. 5. Notifications and updates: • Experts need to get notifications when they have open tasks. • It would also be great if we could automatically send clients updates about their case status. 6. Sending out documents: • Once the document is finalized, it needs to be signed digitally and sent to the tax office automatically.

•	The system has to be reliable. During busy months, we handle around 300 cases.
•	We need user permissions to make sure our team doesn’t accidentally break something critical.
•	It needs to integrate well with other tools, like our website, the digitization service, and any AI features we might use.

I’ve explored tools like Zapier, Make (Integromat), and ClickUp, but I’m not sure if they’re the best fit—or if I need a combination of platforms to cover everything.

If anyone has experience automating a similar setup, or has suggestions on platforms I should consider, I’d really appreciate the help.

Thanks in advance!

11 Comments
2025/01/16
10:09 UTC

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Make or n8n for client work?

Hello,

Would you rather use Make or n8n as a tool? I wondered because n8n seems more complex, especially since you have to create an account for the client if you create systems for them, and the fact that you can only run up to 5 workflows at the same time with the least expensive plan make it seem kind of unattractive to me.
On the other hand, you can't create AI Agents with Make, right? So you would have to use n8n (or what other tool?).
If you want to offer simple automation as well as agent workflows, which one would you choose?
Or maybe an approach with both and you decide which one to use depending on the specific case? How would you determine, which one is to be used?

cheers

23 Comments
2025/01/16
09:09 UTC

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From 0 to $7K/Month in 2 Months: How Do I Scale My A.I. Voice Agency?

Hey Reddit! I’m a student entrepreneur who stumbled into the A.I. voice agency space while learning simple automations. What started as a curiosity turned into $7K/month in just 2 months.

I’ve got clients on retainer and am LOVING the demand in this space, but I’m now stuck on how to scale further. Should I look into partnerships or other marketing strategies? Has anyone here scaled an agency?

10 Comments
2025/01/16
02:18 UTC

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Anyone else using screen recording AI tools?

I've been testing a desktop app that uses screen recording and AI to automate various tasks. For instance, I saw a "reddit auto posts" feature, which uses screen recordings to generate content. Has anyone experimented with tools that leverage your screen activity? What kind of cool automations are you using it for?

2 Comments
2025/01/15
23:31 UTC

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Issues with PWM config

Hi, guys. Im working with a Maple Systems HMC4043A-M and I'd like to know if it's possible to configure PWM on it and how to do it correctly. This is my 1st time working with this kind of plc, so I need some help with it

1 Comment
2025/01/15
21:53 UTC

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Automating Email Categorisation with ChatGPT: Need Guidance for Historic Emails

Hi everyone,

I’m looking to automate the process of categorising my historic emails using ChatGPT or similar tools. My emails are stored in Outlook (I have an Office 365 subscription) and imported into Mac Mail. My goal is for ChatGPT to analyze these emails and suggest folders for organization, as well as recommend some for deletion or archival. I’d like to have final approval over any actions before they’re implemented.

I have intermediate tech skills—I don’t code but can follow detailed instructions or run scripts. I also have a ChatGPT Plus subscription and am open to using integrations like Make.com (happy to spend a bit of money on tokens if needed).

Has anyone done something similar or know of tools/scripts that can help? Any guidance, resources, or tutorials would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

5 Comments
2025/01/15
18:42 UTC

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Overwhelmed with emails, teams chats, requests. Need help to consolidate

I've recently started in a government role. It's business development in the ICT area but part of it is dealing with existing problems in accounts.

I get emails everyday from existing clients about password resets, approval requests, and software reinstalls. I also got put on 5 large projects at the Ministry in charge of Technology so I'm swamped with meetings, getting meetings organized, and getting proposals developed. There are multiple teams I have to deal with like PMO, procurement, contracts, tech support, solution dev, business analysts, etc. So organizing meetings or putting together a proposal is a nightmare.

Plus I'm not yet up to speed with all the SOPs.

What system or app would you all recommend to manage my daily tasks.

I was thinking to create a spreadsheet and add each item as a task as it come in and deal with it accordingly.

What are your suggestions?

8 Comments
2025/01/15
17:59 UTC

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Make.com Giving Me Issues at End Social Media Nodes. Help? Can anyone help me work out what the issue is, please? All is fine up until the social media side. The accounts are all linked fine, but it keeps saying the post is empty. However, I can see the post in the previous node .and ive linked it!

7 Comments
2025/01/15
17:04 UTC

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Request for low/no code tools for quick project

Hi automaters I’m looking for advise on frameworks/apps to launch a quick app to send medical reminders. Doing this for my mom. I’m thinking of using make with WhatsApp. Are there other options please?

Thanks for your time!

5 Comments
2025/01/15
16:38 UTC

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AI agent I came across that learns via screen sharing and runs locally with full encryption, thoughts?

I've recently tried Anthropic Computer Use but it's too much $$ for a simple task. I'm really eager to use AI agents that would work the way I want it to so I came across WorkBeaver that says they train via visual (like screen sharing) and you instruct it what to do and it will do it. Unlike Anthropic, apparently it would run on your local PC with full encryption so the data is locally stored. Has anyone heard of this, and what do you think? Is this something that can be done now? WorkBeaver is still on beta registration so I've signed up to see how it would work since it sounds game changing IF it worked the way they showcase it to be. Would love to hear thoughts and any issues that could happen with this setup.

2 Comments
2025/01/15
09:51 UTC

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Unbelievable time savings

My agency client was spending 1 hour per day searching subreddits and keywords to find leads. Clearly a working strategy but takes time.

So we built him an 18 module automation (previously 150, but I optimized it) that does this manual search for him, automatically, and 24/7. AI filters the post and there's a built in system to ignore duplicates.

Now he can handle relevant reddit leads in seconds and use the extra hour to move bigger levers in his business.

https://preview.redd.it/vygi40m8e0de1.png?width=1704&format=png&auto=webp&s=e70d0fda89d1d950ee370bb0fbdb1c4e0193cbaa

5 Comments
2025/01/14
19:15 UTC

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