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Product updates, technical write-ups, founder notes.
We asked four AI assistants which Twitch clip tool to use, 400 times
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI Overviews, 50 questions, twice each. Eklipse came up in 64% of the answers that didn't name a tool. Reelium came up in none of them.
Read more →Free is one hour of stream, every week
Free used to be four hours a month, often spent on day one. It is now an hour a week, on a stream of any length, and it comes back every Monday.
Read more →September: an editor worth the name, and fewer dead ends
Memes, sound effects, b-roll and a real timeline in the editor, and five places where Reelium used to stop and refuse you, fixed. September, in full.
Read more →Reviewing your clip queue from a chat window
Reelium's review queue is now reachable from Claude. Here is what that does, what it will refuse to do, and why the refusals are the point.
Read more →Which parts of your stream are worth clipping
The hard part of clipping a long stream is not cutting it. It is deciding which few minutes out of several hours are worth the effort at all.
Read more →What survives when a Twitch VOD expires
Past broadcasts, Clips and Highlights are on different clocks. Knowing which is which decides what you can still recover after the window closes.
Read more →How long Twitch keeps your VODs
Twitch deletes past broadcasts on a timer that depends on your account type — and no tool can tell you the exact date, including ours.
Read more →August: TikTok publishing, Twitch sign-in, and a picker that reads the whole stream
The busiest month Reelium has had. Here is what actually changed for you, and what is still waiting on someone else.
Read more →Why we stopped charging per stream
Charging per stream meant a 40-minute chat and an eight-hour subathon cost you the same thing. They do not cost us the same thing.
Read more →Introducing Reelium: paste a URL, get a short
I was clipping streams by hand on Sunday nights. Reelium is the tool I wanted instead.
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