Introducing Reelium: paste a URL, get a short

Hi — I'm Max. Reelium is live today.

I built it because I was spending the back end of every weekend the same way: scrub through a Twitch VOD, find the moments that might land on TikTok, manually trim, manually caption, manually upload. By Sunday night I'd have a stack of clips and a slightly resentful relationship with my own content.

The clipping itself isn't the hard part. The volume is. A 3-hour stream might have 8 clip-worthy moments in it, and a creator who streams 4 days a week is sitting on 30+ potential shorts every week that they'll never actually publish because cutting them by hand is its own part-time job.

What Reelium does

Paste a Twitch or Kick URL — or upload an MP4 directly. Reelium fetches the source, transcribes it, asks Claude to pick the strongest 30-90 second moments, and produces vertical shorts with word-by-word captions burned in. You pick the clips you like, tweak the captions, and either download the MP4 or schedule it to the platforms you've connected (TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Reels, X).

Five minutes from URL to first export, give or take. There's nothing fundamentally novel about that pipeline — most of the building blocks already exist as APIs — but every tool I tried either skipped the AI picking, was YouTube-only, or wanted enterprise pricing for what should be a creator's workflow tool. Twitch and Kick streamers in particular get treated as second-class on most clipping tools, and that was the gap I wanted to close first.

What's honest about today

Some of this works end-to-end right now. Some of it is mid-rollout. Worth being clear:

• The render pipeline works for Twitch and Kick. Twitch (clips and VODs), Kick (clips and VODs), plus your own MP4 uploads. Full vertical export with captions and visual filters.
• YouTube URL paste is paused. YouTube's anti-download stance has tightened to where reliable extraction needs proxy infrastructure that doesn't make sense at our current scale. For YouTube content right now, download the MP4 yourself and use the Upload tab — works the same end-to-end. We'll add YouTube paste back when paying-customer demand justifies the proxy spend.
• YouTube publishing (Shorts) works end-to-end. Connect your channel, schedule a clip, it uploads as a Short. The OAuth app is in Google's verification queue, so until that lands you may see a "Google hasn't verified this app" warning during the connect flow — it's safe to proceed.
• TikTok, Instagram and X direct publishing are still in platform review. Each one has its own approval process for posting on a user's behalf, and they all have lead times measured in weeks. Until they're live, you can export the MP4 and upload manually — same final video, just two extra clicks.
• AI clip-picking works on every source. Twitch / Kick / upload — Reelium transcribes the audio with AssemblyAI when needed and Claude picks the strongest moments. Transcription is metered as "Studio minutes" on each plan with a per-source-length cap so a 3-hour podcast can't accidentally drain your monthly allowance.

Pricing

Free tier: three clips a month, watermarked export, full AI flow. The intent is for that to be enough to know whether Reelium is for you. If three clips isn't obviously useful, three hundred won't be.

Paid plans (Basic, Pro, Agency) unlock unlimited clips, watermark removal, longer source caps, more Studio minutes, and per-tier exclusives like word-level karaoke captions on Pro. Full plan breakdown on the pricing page.

Pro has a 7-day free trial. The free tier doesn't need a credit card. Cancellation is one click in the billing page — I'm not going to make you email anyone.

What I'd like from you

Try it. If it breaks, tell me. Reply to the welcome email — it lands in my inbox, not a queue.

I read every reply. When something is broken in a fixable way, I usually ship the fix within 24 hours; the changelog is the public record of that, and /status is the live system health page if something looks off.

— Max