content · 2026
Chat Story Studio
Self-hosted pipeline that turns a script prompt into a screenshot-authentic fake-text Short — local, viral-format, zero SaaS.
An end-to-end factory for the fake-text story genre — chat conversations layered over full-bleed gameplay backgrounds. A script prompt goes in one end; a 1080×1920 Short comes out the other, ready for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Reels. Silent-mode default because most short-form plays muted; voiced-mode opts in when narration earns its keep. Every theme — iMessage, WhatsApp, TikTok DM, Generic — is hand-tuned pixel-by-pixel against real screenshots. Runs locally on GPU, owns its own render, its own script model, its own asset library. No cloud queues, no per-video fees, no watermarks.
- Screenshot-authentic themes hand-tuned against real iMessage / WhatsApp / TikTok DM layouts
- Silent-mode default with voiced-mode opt-in (Kokoro TTS + WhisperX word-level captions when narration wins)
- Local-first render on RTX-class GPU — Remotion composition, FFmpeg finish, zero cloud round-trip
- Weighted-random theme rotation with per-pipeline config — one drop-in folder = new pipeline, no code edits
- Full script → voice → visuals → metadata → YouTube upload chain, single command
- Claude Code
- Remotion
- Kokoro TTS
- WhisperX
- FFmpeg
- TypeScript
Every notification ding, every asymmetric bubble tail, every 9:41 status bar — reverse-engineered from a real iPhone screenshot at 3am so viewers can't tell it's not one.
