Building a YouTube Channel in Public
Bootstrapping a YouTube Channel With Code
I decided to start a YouTube channel around one simple idea:
What is actually possible with code?
This project is mostly for fun. I want to explore YouTube as a platform and experiment with areas of coding I haven’t touched before. Instead of overthinking it, I’m learning by building in public.
And the first thing I’m building is the tooling for the channel itself.
Building the Tools First
The first series is focused entirely on bootstrapping the channel.
Instead of manually recording and editing everything, I’m creating small tools that help me produce better videos. I build the tools, use them to create videos, then improve them as I go.
Over time, I plan to make these tools available to others.
I’m also delegating as much of the coding as possible to AI tools. Part of this journey is exploring how far AI-assisted development can go, and where it still needs human input.
The First Attempt
I wanted to create a welcome video with a clean terminal-style look.
So I opened iTerm and recorded myself typing the text.
It looked… bad. Everything was off. The typing felt awkward. It wasn’t what I had imagined.
Here’s that first version:
Instead of trying to fix the recording setup, I decided to build something better.
A Simple Terminal Typer App
I wrote a small terminal-typer app that simulates typing and exports directly to video.
That way I can:
- Control timing
- Replay scripts consistently
- Generate clean output every time
Here’s how it looks like:
Using it, I recreated the welcome video, and it turned out much closer to what I originally wanted.
Here is the current version of the welcome video:
This is just the beginning.
Right now, I’m focused on building the foundation.
If you’d like to follow the journey, consider subscribing And if there’s something you’d like to see me build, let me know.
If you watched the videos, you’ll notice they’re still silent. Adding audio is one of the next steps in this experiment.