Day 4 of learning Make.com — built my first real automation 🚀

I run a YouTube documentary channel and I got tired of doing everything manually. So I decided to automate the whole content production pipeline.

Here's what it does end to end:

You give it a video topic and title. It automatically researches the topic using Tavily, writes a cinematic documentary script with Claude AI, humanizes it for TTS delivery, generates a full SEO package with description and tags, creates a Google Drive folder for the video, saves all files inside it, and updates a pipeline tracking sheet — all without touching anything.

Total cost per video: around $0.18 on the API. Compared to $30/month I was paying for a tool that did half of this.

This is day 1 of the build. Still lots to add — ElevenLabs voice generation, auto-send to editor, a proper input form instead of a webhook URL. But the core pipeline works end to end.

If anyone has built something similar or has suggestions for what to add next, I'd love to hear it.

Just getting started. 🔥

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Day 4 of learning Make.com — built my first real automation 🚀