He replaced the studio’s video review stack with his own tool and saved about £40k

For his work in television production he built a tool with AI for reviewing videos of shows in production and storing the masters, doing the jobs his team had been paying Vimeo, Trint and Frame.io style services for. It runs on one small server with a graphics card and has saved about £40k.

£40,000

How it works

Map what the paid services actually do for the team
Build one review and storage tool with AI
Run it on a small in house server
Team switches over
About £40k saved

Why it’s worth knowing

He did not build a startup. He rebuilt the three subscriptions his own team used, on one small server.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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