You know the thing cold. The video still isn't up.
Twenty years of knowing something and the tab with the upload button has been open since March.
Yappster · a YouTube studio that runs on your PCDoors openSOON · MEMBERS FIRST
You don't have a content problem.
You have a week-of-editing problem.
Plan it, record it in OBS, finish it on your own GPU. Yappster turns what you know into a YouTube video you're proud to publish. No timeline. No editor. No monthly payment.
★★★★★Built on OBS · set up for you in one click · 5 looks·one price · no monthly payment
Opens soonWindows and Mac
no timeline,Joe LaveryBuilt it · publishes with it
no editor
From the maker of
Modern Creator NetworkMod Creator2,441 breakdownsthe $6 stack
★★★★★ Mentioned in Russell Brunson's Expert Secrets · helped pioneer the one-click upsell · full-time building with AI since 2025
Any of this sound like you?If it does, keep reading. Yappster was built for you.
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Recording is the easy part.
You can talk for forty minutes without notes. It's the week after the recording that kills the video.
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The timeline eats the evening.
Trim, trim, trim, zoom, caption, color, export, watch it fail at 99%. Do it again tomorrow.
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Your audio is quieter than everyone else's.
Desktop audio bleeding into the mic. No true-peak ceiling. Viewers reach for the volume and then leave.
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You rent four tools to make one video.
A cloud editor, a caption app, a thumbnail maker, a scheduler. $140 a month, and the footage lives on someone else's server.
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You finally post one. It gets 40 views.
You spent the week editing, then slapped a title on it at midnight. The title and thumbnail decide the click, and they got the last ten minutes.
Every box you checked is the same gap.Talking to finished.
You already have the video in your head. Yappster closes the gap in one sitting.
And here's how
Four steps. One sitting.You talk. Your machine does the rest.
Most people never publish because the gap between talking and a finished video is a week of editing. Yappster closes the gap.
Step 0101
Idea
Tell it who the video is for and what you know. You get a hook, the beats, the lines worth saying, and a shot list. Edit it or keep it.
Output: a runsheetStep 0202
Package
Pick a video in your space that blew past its channel's usual views. Get title and thumbnail pairs modeled on it, each linked to the video it came from. Now you know what you're making.
Output: the title + thumbnail you record toStep 0303
Record
Yappster runs your OBS. Each section switches to its own scene, with its own camera, and records your voice on its own track. You just talk.
Output: split takes + mic trackStep 0404
Finish
Pick one of five looks. Preview the first minute of all five on your own footage, then render it on your GPU. Your description, chapters, and the X and Facebook posts come with it.
Output: the MP4 + everything but the clickThe finish
Five looks, rendered on your footage.
titles · chapter cards · lower thirds · quote cards · outro
Clean Authority
White plates, black type, nothing moving that doesn't need to. For the person who is the credential.
Bold Creator
Big floating type with stroke and shadow. Reads on a phone at arm's length.
Cinematic Essay
Letterboxed, serif, slow chapter cards. For the video people watch on a TV.
Whiteboard Explainer
Grid paper, marker type, callouts that land on the beat. For teaching.
Business Briefing
Mono labels, tight lower thirds, agenda cards. For the video that closes a deal.
Graphics sit on top of a clean picture, never baked into it. Preview the first minute of all five, then render the one you want.
Get on the listSee all five on your own footage firstThis is for serious YouTubers.Not for every kind of video.
✓ Built for
- Talking-head and screen-share videos from people who know something
- Different cameras per scene, screen share, your voice on its own track
- Recording, transcription, cutting, graphics, color, and loudness on your machine
- Raw footage that never leaves your computer unless you ask for cloud rendering
- Learning OBS on purpose. Yappster sets it up, then shows you what it did.
- One price, paid once. Bring your own AI key.
✕ What this is not
- A timeline with 40 tracks and a learning curve
- A cloud editor that charges a seat every month
- An AI that invents a video you didn't say
- A template site where every video looks like everyone's
this is a studio.
Runsheet · why your first 100 subs don't matterOBS · REC
01HookScene A · Cam 1 · face0:00
02The number everyone chasesScene A · Cam 10:22
03Show the dashboardScene B · screen + PiP● recording
04What to count insteadScene A · Cam 2 · widenext
05One thing to do tonightScene C · outro platenext
By the end of one sitting
Six things that used to take a week.Done before you stand up.
01Recorded, split per section
Every beat is its own take. Bad take? Redo that one, not the video.
02Voice on its own track
Isolated from desktop audio at the source, not fixed in post.
03Rendered in your look
Titles, chapters, lower thirds. On your GPU, in the look you picked.
04Proper YouTube loudness
Normalized to -14 LUFS with a -1 dBTP true-peak ceiling. No more quiet videos.
05Title + thumbnail
Title options and a thumbnail cut from a real frame with your text on it.
06Chapters + the posts
Your description template filled in, chapters, plus the X and Facebook posts.
Everything you need to publish.One price. Paid once. Yours.
What opens · first group first
- Yappster · Idea, Package, Record, Finishown it
- OBS profile and scenes, set up for you in one click✓
- Five looks, previewed on your own footage✓
- Local render on your NVIDIA GPU · cloud render if you ask✓
- Title and thumbnail ideas modeled on videos that blew up · no 1of10 or vidIQ plan✓
- Bring your own AI key · no markup, no seat✓
- A free Modern Creator Network account · your login and a direct line to me✓
Price announced the day it opens
One price.
Not one more subscription.
One email when it opens. That's it.
Before you ask
Fair questions.Straight answers.
What do I need?+
Three things. A computer with a real graphics card (a gaming PC or any M-series Mac). OBS, which is free. And an AI you already pay for: Claude Code, Codex, or an API key. Everything else installs itself with one line. If your camera and mic work in a Zoom call, Yappster works. Check yours free in 30 seconds.
Do I have to learn OBS?+
No. One click builds your studio inside OBS: the scenes your gear can fill, each one framed, your camera, your screen, your mic on its own track, the right encoder. You press record on the page. It never edits your own OBS setup. This is why the video looks like a produced show and not a Zoom call.
Does it run on a Mac?+
Yes. Apple Silicon Macs run the same studio, the same OBS control, and the same setup page. Mac support is brand new, so if setup trips anywhere, message me and I'll fix it that day.
What if my computer is weak?+
Then not yet. The whole point is that the production runs on your machine, not on a website. A rented GPU option is planned for people who want to stay on a light laptop.
Where does my footage go?+
Nowhere. Recording, transcription, cutting, graphics, color, and loudness all run on your machine. Your raw footage never leaves your computer.
What does it cost?+
One price. Your AI, your way: Claude Code, Codex, or an API key. No markup on the smart parts and no monthly payment. It comes with a free Modern Creator Network account, which is your login. The number goes out in the opening email.
When does it open?+
Soon. Modern Creator Network members go first, everyone on this list goes next. You get one email. That's it.
One sitting
You'll publish the video you've beensitting on since March.
Plan it. Talk. Pick a look. Hit render. The title, the thumbnail, and the posts are waiting when it's done.
Get on the listOne email when it opens · members firstTalk. Then hit render.
Joe Lavery · built it, publishes with it