I open-sourced an AI pipeline that turns any topic into a YouTube Short
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What is OpenReels? OpenReels takes a topic and produces a YouTube Short. It handles the research, script, voiceover, visuals, music, captions, and assembly. You get a vertical MP4 at the end. It's MIT licensed, runs via Docker Compose, and costs about $0.68 per video. You bring your own API keys. GitHub: github.com/tsensei/OpenReels How it works Give it a topic. Six stages run automatically: Stage What happens Research Web search grounds the script in real fact