I built a TikTok machine before I ever opened TikTok

Confession: I've never posted a TikTok, and I've barely watched one (I'm a Youtube Shorts addict though 😂). So naturally, I built a machine that makes them.

It's for thegoatdebate.io, my Messi vs Ronaldo GOAT debate site. The star is Papa Goat, a grumpy, deeply unimpressed goat who has heard your GOAT take before and didn't like it then either. 🐐

How it works: you give it some football footage. It picks a take from a bank of about 150 sourced facts, and a local AI model writes Papa Goat's script. ElevenLabs gives him a voice, and a talking goat lands on top of the video. Out comes a vertical video that a human (me) watches before anything gets posted.

This week it made its first real videos.

Do you prefer the main logo or the mark? Choose your pick. The full project is coming soon, or check it out here on Instagram if you don't wanna wait.

The mark, but for a reason that has nothing to do with which one looks better here: this brand lives on a pizza box, a napkin and a sticker on a takeaway bag, mostly around 20mm and often one ink on brown board. The full logo introduces the place once; the mark is what someone...