How I Built a Free, Self-Hosted Pipeline That Auto-Generates Faceless YouTube Shorts
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Every "AI YouTube" tutorial ends the same way: sign up for ChatGPT Plus, then ElevenLabs, then Pictory, then n8n Cloud. Add it up and you're paying $75–100/month before you've made a single video — let alone a single dollar. I didn't want a subscription stack. I wanted something that ran on my own machine, used free tiers and local models, and that I actually owned. So I built it, and I just open-sourced it under MIT. It's called FreeFaceless , and it takes one command to go from nothing to an u