Spent 2-3 months building a tool to solve my own content problem. Here's what I learned.

I've been creating video content for my YouTube channel and business, and the worst part was never the recording—it was creating all the written content afterwards.

Every video needed:

• A blog post version for SEO
• Social media posts to promote it
• Course notes/summaries
• Email campaigns to my list

I was spending more time writing ABOUT the video than actually making it.

The breaking point: I had lots of old videos sitting unused because I couldn't face the 100+ hours of work to repurpose them.

So I built VerbalTide—basically a tool that converts video/audio into written content formats. Upload a video, get blog posts, social content, summaries, etc. without rewatching.

What I learned building this:

• The market is WAY more crowded than I expected.
• Getting first users is brutally hard without social proof.
• Anonymous testimonials are better than nothing but still feel weak.
• Pricing is really hard (too cheap signals low quality, too expensive scares away solo creators)

Currently at: 15 free trial users, trying to figure out if this is worth pursuing or if I should pivot.

Honest question: If you create video content, would you actually pay $12-99/month for this? Or are you happy with your current workflow?

Not trying to sell anything, genuinely want feedback on whether this problem is big enough to build a business around.