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NightPublishyoutube-channel-automation licence

It publishes before you wake up.

Research, script, visuals, voice, edit, Shorts and scheduled publishing, every day, per channel, unattended. You get the full source.

$149 once, plus $150–$400 a month in vendor bills.

252 files 12 agents one-time · no subscription bring your own agent
overnight run · one scripted channel7 steps
  1. researchnews sweep, sources checked, stories already covered skipped
  2. scriptlong-form draft, fact-checked by a second agent before a cent of generation spend
  3. visualslicensed photos first, the gaps generated to the channel's brand config
  4. voiceovernarration rendered and timed against the script
  5. assemblelong-form cut, captions burned, music balanced
  6. shortsone vertical clip per top story, captioned separately
  7. publishscheduled to YouTube with the synthetic-media disclosure set
  8. you are still asleep
Real steps, in order. Clock times are illustrative.

The daily bill

Seven jobs a day,
per channel.

Research, script, visuals, voice, long-form, Shorts, publish. Miss a day and the algorithm notices. What that labour costs to buy:

ANCHOR 01 $2,900–$4,700 per month · DIY

Three daily channels run yourself with the same AI tools, editors included.

ReelForgeAI, faceless channel costs 2026
ANCHOR 02 $8,550–$13,500 per month · done for you

The same volume from an AI-native done-for-you service.

Overseeros, YouTube agency pricing 2026
ANCHOR 03 $1,000–$10,000+ per single video · human agency

One video from a human agency. Retainers run $5,000 to $25,000 a month.

Villo Studio, channel management costs

How it works

One file per channel.
Then it runs itself.

STEP 01

Describe the channel in one YAML file

Niche, voice, style, cadence, where it posts. Five templates ship: scripted long-form, AI clips, and your own team's uploads.

STEP 02

Install the timers and go to bed

launchd on macOS or systemd on Linux. A run that dies at voiceover resumes at voiceover.

STEP 03

Read the report over coffee

Everything is scheduled and labelled as AI-made. One command shows what ran and what it spent.

The whole pipeline, step by step

What we can actually show you

It runs our own
three channels.

Long-form, Shorts and AI clips on a nightly schedule. Some nights still fail when a vendor runs out of quota or drops an account, and the run log says which. The system we run, sold as-is.

THE RECEIPTS

Terminal output, pasted from the run

One morning across three channels: step timings, the run state, and what was dropped before any spend.

See the output
THE BUILD

Why it survives the night

Resumable runs, a policy gate before any spend, telemetry on every step, and evals.

How it is built

Where this sits

A boilerplate, for a
YouTube channel.

Someone else did the wiring, you get the full source, you pay once. Priced like the starter kits you already know.

One-time developer tooling, and what it sells for
ShipFasta SaaS starter kit: auth, payments, emails, wired together$199–$299
MakerKitthe same idea, team edition at the top end$349 / $649
Zenvoicea single utility, one job, done once$49
NightPublishthe whole daily channel pipeline, every channel kind, unlimited channels$149

Priced below the band until there are customers to justify more. Prices read from each vendor's site on 2 October 2026; no affiliation.

The licence

Own the pipeline. Pay once.

$149one time · no subscription

Instant download: 252 files, the system as we run it minus our own channels and the third-party skills we can't resell. Vendor bills run about $150–$400 a month for three channels.

  • The pipeline: the yca CLI, eleven steps, scheduling and the policy gate
  • The agents: twelve subagents and eight skills, in Claude Code's format
  • The tests: evals, regression tasks and the test suite
  • The docs: architecture, five channel templates and a setup guide
Everything in the zip, file by file

Platform risk. YouTube's inauthentic-content policy (15 July 2025) targets templated, mass-produced content, which is what this makes. Every upload is labelled AI-made. No views, subscribers or revenue are promised. Read the risk

Tier 02 · enquiry only
Managed, per channel
from $997/mo

We run it on your channel. Leave an email for a quote.

Tier 03 · enquiry only
Setup + 30 days of support
enquire

We install it on your machine and channels, then support you for 30 days.

Just want to make clips? Clip Kit is the $19 setup we use to cut stream VODs into vertical clips with captions. It runs on a Mac with free tools.

See Clip Kit →

Questions worth asking

The five that decide it.

Will YouTube penalise channels built this way?

It can, and you need to go in knowing that. YouTube's inauthentic content policy, renamed and clarified on 15 July 2025, explicitly targets content "produced using a template with little to no variation" and content "easily replicable at scale". Mass-produced, generic or repetitive uploads do not earn ad revenue, and YouTube applies this retroactively. A pipeline that runs the same steps nightly across several channels is structurally what that policy describes.

What the kit does about it: on AI-clip channels, a deterministic gate blocks real people, brands and music in prompts, and a separate reviewer agent rejects near-copies and look-alikes in each day's batch, both before any spend. On scripted channels a second agent fact-checks every script before any spend. Shorts and AI clips are always flagged as synthetic media through containsSyntheticMedia, and every template turns the flag on for long-form too. Varying your channels for real and keeping a human eye on what ships is up to you. That reduces the risk. It does not remove it, and no seller can honestly tell you otherwise. If a demonetisation would sink your business, this is not a safe purchase.

Will this make me money?

We do not promise that, and the numbers in this genre are not kind. Only about 9–17% of YouTube channels ever reach 1,000 subscribers, which is the floor for the Partner Programme, and daily news and trend content sits in a sub-$5 RPM band. No view, subscriber, monetisation or revenue outcome is promised by this product, on this page or anywhere else. Anyone selling you one is worth a hard look.

What it does is displace cost. If daily production is already a line in your budget — an editor, a VA, a freelancer, your own evenings — this turns that line into a vendor bill of roughly $150 to $400 a month for three channels. Buy it for that. Do not buy it as a route to YouTube income you do not have yet.

What does it actually cost me every month?

The licence is $149 once. Running it is not free: Claude Code, Higgsfield, ElevenLabs and Blotato bill you directly, roughly $150 to $400 a month for three daily channels, and it needs a Mac or Linux machine with Node, ffmpeg and Python 3 that stays awake overnight. If any one of those bills fails, production stops until it is fixed.

A SaaS starter kit stops costing money once you clone it. This one runs a job every night, which is why the monthly bill exists and why most of what you buy is the part that keeps that job from failing at 3am: the state machine, the policy gate, the telemetry and the evals.

Is support included?

No. Not at $149. You get the source, the architecture document, SETUP.md and the test suite, and that is the whole deal. There is no SLA, no onboarding call, no bug-fix promise and no guaranteed reply time. The only thing the support address handles at this tier is a broken download link or a refund.

If you want someone on the hook, the setup tier includes installation and 30 days of integration support, or the managed tier means we run it. Both are enquiries above and neither takes payment on this page.

What if something is wrong with my purchase?

Email [email protected] from the address you paid with and tell us what happened. A real person reads it.

All twelve questions, answered