I Built a Next.js App to Fix My YouTube Workflow

Brandon Melville

14d • AI & Automation 🤖

Lately I’ve been trying to improve my entire YouTube video creation workflow.

Not just “come up with better ideas,” but the whole process:

Idea → research → script notes → video structure → post-production → retrospective after publishing.

The main problem I kept running into was context switching.

So I built a small workflow web app to bring the whole video creation process into one place.

Inside the app I can track:

Quarterly YouTube goals
My target audience
My value proposition
New video ideas
Active video projects
Core research findings
Script notes
Segment structure
Published videos
Post-upload retrospectives
Audience feedback

I am excited to see how the retrospective flow goes.

After a video is published, I can come back and review what worked, what didn’t, what the audience responded to, and what I should improve for the next upload.

I don’t just want to publish more. I want the videos to actually get better.

For the build, I used Next.js and built most of this as a background project while working on other things. I also used Superpowers, and honestly, it worked really well for this kind of workflow app because I already had a clear idea of what I wanted.

Sometimes the best AI projects are small internal tools that remove friction from a workflow you already do every week.

I may put this on GitHub after I clean up a few more things.

What do you guys think:

What workflow do you currently have that would be better if it was turned into a small web app?

And where are you still bouncing between too many tools?

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I Built a Next.js App to Fix My YouTube Workflow