ClipMint v1.24.0

ClipMint now reads how the Shorts you posted actually did, tells you what's
working on your channel, and learns from it, carefully.

Until now the ranking was a guess that was never checked. Now it gets checked.

How your Shorts did

Connect your channel in Settings, and the library opens with a new panel:

• Every clip on your channel is found, including ones you uploaded
  yourself, which ClipMint matches by title. Each card shows its views, and
  Most views sorts a run by them.
• It says what's working, in plain words. For example: "Clips with a
  title the AI actually wrote got a median of 42.5 views; clips without got
  3.5 (10x more)."
• Every pattern is tested against chance. With a few dozen Shorts most
  differences are noise, so a finding is marked Looks real only when it
  clearly isn't. Everything else is listed as no clear link yet, rather than
  dressed up as advice.
• Only clips at least two days old are compared. Yesterday's Short hasn't
  had its views yet.

The ranking learns

When one of the measured signals (loudness, reaction words, motion, build-up or
chat) really does go with views on your channel, it counts for more in your
next run. It only moves after a dozen clips, never by more than 40%, and only on
a finding that held up. Until then the ranking stays exactly as it was, and the
panel says so.

On the channel ClipMint was built with, that's what happened: none of the
ranking scores tracked views yet, so nothing moved. The one clear finding was
the titles, and it was 10×. If an AI provider runs out of quota before titles
are written, a free Groq key in Settings is the fix.

Your data

It uses the same YouTube connection as uploading. There's no new permission to
grant. ClipMint checks by itself at most every six hours, or when you press
Check now. The numbers stay on your PC, are deleted after 30 days without a
refresh (YouTube's rule), and go the moment you disconnect. The
privacy policy has the
details.

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ClipMint.exe: about 224 MB, Windows, self-contained. Unsigned, so
SmartScreen will warn: More info → Run anyway.

ClipMint-linux-x86_64: about 280 MB, x86-64, self-contained, glibc 2.35 or
newer. chmod +x it and run it. Still untested on a desktop distribution.
Every published build is started by the release workflow and asked for its
interface before the release exists, but nobody has yet made a Short with it
on Fedora or Ubuntu. Take ClipMint-linux-README.txt too.

ClipMint-macOS-arm64.zip: about 167 MB, Apple Silicon only. Still a beta,
and still has never been run on a Mac. I don't own one, so it is built and
checked by GitHub's macOS runners and published without a person opening it.
Uploading to YouTube has only been tested on Windows. If it doesn't start, or
signing in doesn't behave as described, that is a bug here:
~/Movies/ClipMint/app.log and
an issue are how it gets
fixed.

Also published, for installs from before the rename only: StreamToShorts.exe,
StreamToShorts-linux-x86_64 and StreamToShorts-macOS-arm64.zip, the same
three files under their old names. A fresh download wants the ClipMint ones.

On v1.5.0 or later on Windows, or on any Linux build? The app will offer this
to you.

MIT licensed. Fork it, ship it, build on it. The licence asks one thing: keep
the copyright notice.