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Content creators repurposing Reels and Shorts into written content, social media managers and agencies doing competitor script research at scale, and marketers analyzing hooks and CTAs across short-form video.

Transcriptum's answer

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I'm a content creator making around 30 videos a week — UGC, opinion pieces, and tech content. Getting inspiration from other creators meant transcribing their videos, and every tool I found only let me do one at a time. What should have been a quick research step was eating 4 hours of my day. I built Bulk Transcript to fix that for myself, and it turned a 4-hour process into 30 minutes. Once it worked for me, I made it available to everyone.

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• ASR & AI: AssemblyAI / LeMUR, integrated AI assistant
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Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript. Transcription powered by OpenAI Whisper.

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1. Independent content creators producing 20–50 short-form videos per week
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