I Built ClipSpeedAI: What 18 Months of Building an AI Video Tool Actually Taught Me

I Built ClipSpeedAI: What 18 Months of Building an AI Video Tool Actually Taught Me This is the honest version — the stuff that doesn't make it into the polished product demos. Why This Problem The idea for ClipSpeedAI came from watching my own content creation process fall apart. I was producing long-form videos and spending more time on post-production distribution than on the actual content. Not editing — I had an editor. The distribution problem: taking that edited video and systematically extracting everything useful for short-form platforms. Every Sunday was 4+ hours of manually scrubbing through the week's content, cutting clips, reformatting for vertical, burning in captions, and scheduling. By the time I was done, I was too burned out to think about the next video. The problem felt too mechanical to be this time-consuming. A machine should do this. The First Year Was Not What I Expected The first prototype took 6 weeks to build. It worked — kind of. It extracted clips based on