You can’t trim a content team a little at a time — a copywriter, designer, video editor and researcher cost like a small apartment every month. I replaced them with one Telegram bot that ships content around the clock for a dollar a day.
Content production is bottlenecked by people: every post passes through a chain of hands, and any of them can get sick, take a vacation, or stretch a review into three days. A team like that runs ~$5,000/mo and still doesn’t scale.
The brief was simple: close the whole loop — from idea to a finished file — and make it run with no people and almost no money.
One Telegram bot as the only interface. Under the hood — n8n orchestration: request routing, LLM calls, visual generation, FFmpeg video rendering and publishing. All packed into Docker on a dirt-cheap VPS.
From the chat you pick a format — content plan, carousel, script, edit, long-read or an events calendar — and the bot drives it to a result, asking for confirmation only at the key steps.
Long-reads: writes articles with real links to research — it parses and cites sources, returns ready HTML.
Carousels: generates a slide-by-slide script and assembles the visuals — “one project, different packaging”.
Video: analyses the source, transcribes speech, cuts subtitles and edits a vertical Reel via FFmpeg.
Events: parses award and festival deadlines and sends urgent reminders with submission links.
A content pipeline that doesn’t get sick, take vacations, or wait on reviews. Cost — about $1 a day vs. $5,000/mo for a team: over $60,000 saved a year, with faster output.
Want the same — or stronger?
I’ll build a system like this for your task.