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2026·content network & video pipeline·ai app marketplace · code-rendered reels · niche accounts

A marketplace of single-task AI apps for the US and Europe. When I came in, its 247 catalog pages had no video at all. Three days from the first message to an offer, and from 28 September 2026 a content operation built from scratch: niche accounts on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X, an AI host labelled as AI, a publishing desk and a pipeline where every reel is a template plus data.

zibby — 2026ai app marketplace · code-rendered reels · niche accounts
▶pitch · a made-up 1987 TV show, real prices on screen
pitch · a made-up 1987 TV show, real prices on screen
▶pitch · a Swiss-style list
pitch · a Swiss-style list
▶pitch · 100 free credits, spent on camera
pitch · 100 free credits, spent on camera
▶a reel rendered from the app’s own code, no screen recording
a reel rendered from the app’s own code, no screen recording
▶open-source repo → web app → a reel from its code
open-source repo → web app → a reel from its code
▶prompt → result, in Spanish
prompt → result, in Spanish
▶pitch · a Y2K pixel list
pitch · a Y2K pixel list
▶pitch · one room, six styles
pitch · one room, six styles
▶two sites: an outside one and the client’s app drawn in code
two sites: an outside one and the client’s app drawn in code
▶a beige ’80s computer with a face drawn in code
a beige ’80s computer with a face drawn in code
▶a design-reference archive, editorial style
a design-reference archive, editorial style
▶one photo, six shoots
one photo, six shoots
3days from the first message to an offer
247six-second loops for the catalog pages, 8 motion templates
13 / 8vertical videos made for the pitch / visual styles, one codebase
3,941reels from 90 benchmark accounts studied before launch, 48 broken down frame by frame
17mini-apps built from open-source repos and published in the catalog
16episodes of the AI host rebuilt in one day around a cold open

A pitch instead of a cover letter

The vacancy was for SMM. I answered with the work itself: a 29-page strategy, 13 vertical videos in 8 visual styles from one codebase, and 247 six-second loops for catalog pages that had no video at all. One of the pieces was a made-up 1987 TV show — an AI host, a robot expert, the catalog's real prices on screen. The offer came three days after the first message.

A reel is a template plus data

Every reel is a React component in Remotion, rendered through headless Chrome and ffmpeg, so a new reel is new data in the same template. Whatever has to be exact — prices, interfaces, text — is drawn by code; the model only supplies the style. Websites are filmed by Playwright scripts, the voice is ElevenLabs, cut on pauses and checked with Whisper, the mix lands at −14 LUFS, and parallel agents build three or four reels at once.

Filming WebGL frame by frame

Heavy 3D sites are not screen-recorded. The animation loop is frozen, the browser clock is faked so each capture advances exactly 1/30 s, the camera moves along keyframes, and the canvas is grabbed at 1620×2880 and downscaled to 1080×1920. The same idea renders reels straight from an app's own code: I built 17 mini-apps from open-source repositories for the catalog, and the reels about them are rendered from that code, with no screen recording.

Research before the first post

Before the niche accounts went live: 90 benchmark accounts, 3,941 reels in tables, 48 top reels broken down frame by frame and transcribed. Each account got a niche analysis, a reel spec with a unit cost and a plan for its first week.

An AI host, labelled as AI

A host openly generated by AI who scores the loudest AI news on two scales, HYPE and REAL — 19 episodes in the first eight days. The first reels lost viewers in the opening seconds: the face talked before anything happened on screen. The rule since then: the result fills the screen from frame 0 and the host shrinks into a window. All 16 episodes were rebuilt the next day.

A desk instead of autopilot

On day one I built a publishing desk: a queue by platform and date with captions, first comments and links, a log and a CSV export. It doesn't post anything by itself — a person posts and marks it done.