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In Feburary 2026, I launched a Launch Video Generator SaaS product called Clickcast as a CS Student with literally Zero budget. No investors. No paid marketing. No expensive infrastructure. I built it using a combination of free tiers, student credits and a lot of experimentation with my own Idea. And eventually, it crossed $1600+ in revenue till date. This is the exact story of how I built it, what I spent, how I got my first users, what worked, what failed, and what I would do differently if I were starting again today. 1. The idea Clickcast was an idea that originated from my own problem. I was creating many projects, and every time after completing one project, I wanted to post it on LinkedIn, X, etc. However, what I didn’t want to do was just put up some screenshots of my website. I wanted to make my launch more special. I was looking for a concise, interesting video that would tell the viewer about: \- My creation \- The problem that my creation solves \- How it works \- Why should the viewer care The challenge? Making that video would be a lot of effort on my part. I would need to learn video editing skills, work on animations, use software such as After Effects, make a recording of my product, edit the whole process, add transitions and text to the videos, and spend hours even days for creating one single video. Thus, I decided to look for another way out. I went online and started looking for tools that would create me an automatic explainer video from my project or website within a couple of minutes. I tried using some of the most popular tools such as InVideo, Canva, etc. However, I was unable to find what I needed. Mostly, I saw tools that were turning my projects into some kind of PowerPoint presentations in video form. I wasn’t looking for some generic video marketing tool. I was searching for a video marketing tool that would actually understand my website and represent it in the best way possible. >This is when the idea occurred to me: Why not create a website which will be creating explainer videos for any website? And that was how Clickcast came into existence. Concept was quite straightforward: Provide Clickcast with your website URL -> AI understands the product -> creates a video for you in minutes. Solution that I found to solve my own problem, ultimately turned out to be a working SaaS product. And here is the journey of how I made it without any initial capital and reached $1,600+ revenue till date. 2. Building the MVP Once the concept clicked, I did research on how to actually make it work. Firstly, I had to figure out how to convert a website URL to a video. In my research, I discovered two components which made the basis of Clickcast that are Playwright , Remotion and AI for writing Script. Playwright had the ability to open and automate the process of working with the website using just a URL. It allowed me to crawl through the website, get insight about it and take screenshots of the actual product. Secondly,

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/18 21:50:26