YouTube Creator Assistant ✨

Boost your channel’s creative workflow with a single full-stack app that plans videos, responds to your community, and spins up shorts in minutes.

Why Creators Love It

• 📊 Analytics tab – Track channel health, surface top-performing uploads, and monitor recent trends in one glance.
• 💬 Comments tab – Pull in viewer feedback, draft AI-powered replies, and queue responses before publishing.
• 🎬 Shorts tab – Trim long-form videos, auto-generate scripts from transcripts, and manage download/upload jobs.
• 💡 Video Ideas tab – Brainstorm titles, outlines, and hook ideas with tailored Gemini + OpenAI prompts.
• 🖼️ Thumbnail helper – Produce thumbnail concepts with Hugging Face models and iterate quickly.
• 🔐 Google sign-in ready – OAuth keeps tokens fresh so every request to YouTube’s Data & Analytics APIs just works.

What’s Under the Hood

• Frontend: React + Vite + Tailwind for a snappy dashboard experience.
• Backend: Express + MongoDB with Google, OpenAI, and Hugging Face integrations.
• Automation: ffmpeg and ytdl-core handle downloads, trims, and uploads behind the scenes.

Quick Start

1. Clone the repo and run npm install inside both backend/ and frontend/.
2. Add .env files with your YouTube, Google OAuth, OpenAI, and (optionally) Hugging Face keys.
3. Spin up the dev servers with npm run dev in each folder and log in with Google.

Roadmap & Ideas

• 🤖 Smarter comment tone presets
• 📅 Content calendar view
• 🔔 Notification digests for new trends

Questions or ideas? Open an issue or start a discussion—happy creating! 🚀