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Jeffrey

Building small tools that solve my own problems. First shipped: Channel Reality Check, a YouTube tool that separates Shorts from long-form video to show what a channel's uploads actually earn.


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Tools I build to solve my own problems, shared publicly in case they're useful to someone else.

  1. Channel Reality Check

    Subscriber count is a vanity metric. Channel Reality Check pulls a channel's recent uploads, splits out Shorts from long-form (they monetize at roughly a tenth the rate), and scores discoverability, momentum, consistency, and revenue potential out of 100. Built it to evaluate YouTube niches before starting a channel myself. On the first real run it caught a channel where blended view counts were understating true long-form performance by over 2x, correcting a number that had already killed a different project's plan.Free to use, no signup, no data stored.

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I built a tool that shows what a YouTube channel's videos actually earn, not its sub count
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I built a tool that shows what a YouTube channel's videos actually earn, not its sub count
commented on2026-07-28
I built a tool that shows what a YouTube channel's videos actually earn, not its sub count
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I built a tool that shows what a YouTube channel's videos actually earn, not its sub count
created a post2026-07-28
I built a tool that shows what a YouTube channel's videos actually earn, not its sub count

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