I Open-Sourced TopicMiner

I Open-Sourced TopicMiner Turn One Long Video Into Dozens of Branded Shorts Most video repurposing tools are either too shallow, too closed, or too annoying to customize. So I open-sourced TopicMiner . TopicMiner is built for a simple but painful workflow: you have a podcast, webinar, interview, or long-form video, and you want to turn it into short, branded, vertical clips without manually chopping everything up for hours. It handles: local transcription VTT caption generation agentic video editing branded short-form clip creation Stripe payments It’s built on Backboard.io , which means it’s not just a one-off toy project — it’s part of a bigger architecture for building serious AI-native apps. What TopicMiner does TopicMiner helps turn long-form content into short-form assets that are actually usable for distribution. Think: podcast to TikTok clips webinar to YouTube Shorts interview to branded social snippets long videos to multiple cutdowns with captions The goal wasn’t “AI for the