How to Build a Clipping Page That Makes $4K/month with Hermes

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THE THREE TOOLS

Vugola does the clipping. You give it a long video and it finds the best moments, cuts them, and burns captions in automatically. It uses AI to detect viral hooks and scores each clip by how likely it is to perform. Pricing starts at $14 a month for 150 credits on the Creator plan (1 credit equals 1 minute of source video). It supports captions in 99 languages with animated word-level highlighting and dynamic face-tracked vertical reframe.

Website: vugolaai.com API docs: vugolaai.com/docs MCP server: vugola-mcp on npm

Postiz does the scheduling. One dashboard for every platform. It posts to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Threads, and Bluesky. It is open source, has a real API, and has an agent skill that lets Hermes control it directly. The free plan works to start. Paid plans give you more connected accounts and scheduled posts.

Website: postiz.com Agent skill docs: postiz.com/hermes-agent GitHub: github.com/gitroomhq/postiz

Hermes Agent is the brain. Free and open source from Nous Research. On its own it is just an AI agent. The reason it matters here is that it holds Vugola and Postiz as tools it can call and runs them in order so the whole pipeline fires from one text message instead of you clicking through three separate apps.

Website: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com Install docs: hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/getting-started/quickstart

STEP 1: PICK A CREATOR, NOT A NICHE

You want one person who already puts out long content on a regular schedule. Podcasts, livestreams, long YouTube videos, interviews. They need an audience that would actually want clips. The creator is the engine of the whole business and if you pick a weak one nothing downstream will save you.

What to look for: Someone who posts long videos at least once a week Someone with an engaged audience that comments and shares Someone whose content has natural emotional spikes, hot takes, wild moments, and strong reactions Someone who either has a paid product you can affiliate with or would pay you for clipping services

What to avoid: Creators who only post short form already (nothing to clip) Creators with no long-form catalog (no runway to start with) Creators whose content is calm and educational with no emotional peaks (the clips will not perform)

Once you pick your creator, grab their back catalog. Months of their long videos already exist. That is your runway and it means you are not waiting around for new uploads to start posting.

STEP 2: GET YOUR THREE KEYS

Before you wire anything together you need accounts and API keys for all three tools.

Vugola: Sign up at vugolaai.com. Go to vugolaai.com/dashboard/api-key and generate your API key. You need at least the Creator plan at $14 a month. Your key will look like vug_sk_ followed by a string of characters. Save it somewhere secure and never commit it to a public repo.

Postiz: Sign up at postiz.com. Connect your social media accounts (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook, whatever platforms you want to post to). Go to settings and grab your Postiz API key. Save it.

Hermes: Install Hermes Agent on your machine. On macOS or Linux run:

curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash

On Windows open PowerShell and run:

iex (irm https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.ps1)

Then run:

hermes setup

This walks you through connecting your AI model (Claude Sonnet 4.6 recommended) and your messaging platform (Telegram is the most common).

STEP 3: WIRE VUGOLA INTO HERMES

You need Hermes to be able to call Vugola directly so it can send a long video and get captioned clips back without you touching the Vugola app.

Install the Vugola MCP server. In your terminal run:

npx vugola-mcp@1.3.1

The installer will ask for your Vugola API key. Paste it in. It automatically configures everything so Hermes can call Vugola as a tool.

To verify it is connected, run:

hermes tools list

You should see Vugola tools listed including clip_video, get_clip_status, and download_clip.

Now test it. Tell Hermes:

"Clip this video into the best 30-second moments with captions: [paste a YouTube URL of your creator's long video]"

Hermes should send the video to Vugola, wait for the clips to be processed, and return them with titles and virality scores. If this works you are good to move to the next step.

STEP 4: WIRE POSTIZ INTO HERMES

Install the Postiz agent skill:

npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

Set your Postiz API key:

export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

Verify Hermes can see Postiz:

hermes tools list

You should see Postiz commands listed including posts:create, integrations:list, and posts:list.

Test it by listing your connected platforms:

Tell Hermes: "List all my connected social media accounts on Postiz"

Hermes should return a list of all the platforms you connected in Postiz (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc) with their integration IDs. Save these IDs because you will need them when telling Hermes where to post.

STEP 5: CONNECT HERMES TO TELEGRAM

This is how you control the entire system from your phone. No terminal once it is running.

If you did not connect Telegram during the hermes setup step, do it now. You need to create a bot through BotFather on Telegram:

1. Open Telegram and search for @BotFather
2. Send /newbot and follow the prompts to create your bot
3. BotFather gives you a bot token. Copy it.
4. Add the token to your Hermes configuration

Now you can message your Hermes agent on Telegram from your phone and it responds. Everything you tell it on Telegram, it executes on your machine using the tools you connected.

STEP 6: SET UP THE FULL PIPELINE PROMPT

This is the prompt that tells Hermes exactly what to do when you send it a video. Save this as a skill or send it as a one-time setup message:

"When I send you a YouTube or video URL, run this pipeline in order:

Step 1: Send the video to Vugola for clipping. Request 7 clips between 15 and 45 seconds each. Wait for all clips to finish processing.

Step 2: Download all finished clips. For each clip, use the AI-generated title from Vugola as the base caption. Add 3 to 5 relevant hashtags based on the content of the clip.

Step 3: Schedule the clips across all my connected platforms on Postiz. Spread them out over the next 7 days with 1 clip per day per platform. Schedule each post for peak engagement times: TikTok: 7pm Instagram: 12pm YouTube Shorts: 3pm X: 9am

Step 4: After scheduling, send me a summary on Telegram showing: How many clips were created The title of each clip and its virality score from Vugola Which platforms each clip is scheduled for The dates and times for all scheduled posts

If any step fails, tell me exactly what went wrong and which step it failed on. Do not continue past a failed step."

STEP 7: SET UP DAILY AUTOMATION

Once the pipeline works manually, automate it so Hermes checks for new videos on its own.

Tell Hermes:

"Set up a daily task that runs every morning at 8am. Check [creator's YouTube channel URL] for any new videos uploaded in the last 24 hours. If there is a new video, run the full clipping pipeline on it automatically. If there is no new video, do nothing. Send me a Telegram message either way letting me know if a new video was found and processed or if there was nothing new today."

Now Hermes checks every morning. When your creator uploads a new video, the clips are made, captioned, and scheduled across every platform before you even wake up. On days with no new upload, you get a quick message saying nothing new and Hermes goes back to waiting.

THE REAL NUMBERS

The title says 4 million views a month. Here is the honest math because a number you cannot back up is worthless.

tjrmindset, run by hand on basically one platform, gets around 1.5 million views a month. That is the real number for that page right now.

4 million is the ceiling the same model reaches when you fix the two things holding that page back: it only posts to one platform and a human is still doing the cutting.

The automated version math:

1 clip posted to 4 platforms equals 4 posts 7 clips a day equals 28 posts a day equals about 840 posts a month Most posts get a few thousand views Some posts hit 30,000 to 80,000 A few posts break 300,000+ Ceiling at full volume is around 4 million views a month

You will not hit 4 million in month one. The page is new and the algorithm does not trust you yet. 4 million is the target the pipeline is built to reach over time as the page grows. Not a week one promise.

What each platform pays in 2026: TikTok Creator Rewards: $0.40 to $1.00 per 1,000 qualified views YouTube Shorts: RPM varies by niche, roughly $0.05 to $0.30 per 1,000 views Instagram: No direct ad revenue for Reels currently, monetize through link in bio X: Creator revenue sharing based on ad impressions on replies

HOW THE MONEY WORKS

There are two revenue streams from a clipping page.

Revenue stream 1: Affiliate or referral. The link in bio points to the creator's paid product (course, program, community, coaching). You take a percentage of every sale that comes through your link. This is how tjrmindset makes money. The page drives traffic to TJR's paid program and takes a cut.

Revenue stream 2: Selling clipping services. Other creators see your page and DM you asking for one built for them. You charge $500 to $2,000 to set up a clipping page for another creator, plus $200 to $500 a month to maintain it. Your setup cost is near zero because the pipeline does the work.

At 10 clipping clients paying $300 a month for maintenance, that is $3,000 a month recurring plus the affiliate revenue from your own page. The pipeline handles all of them.

MONTHLY COSTS

Vugola Creator plan: $14/month (150 credits, 1 credit per minute of source video) Postiz: free tier to start, paid plans at $24/month for more accounts Hermes Agent: free (open source) AI model API (Claude Sonnet 4.6): $20 to $50/month depending on usage Total: roughly $60 to $90/month

Revenue potential at scale: $3,000 to $5,000/month from a combination of affiliate income and clipping service clients.

WHEN THIS WORKS AND WHEN IT DOES NOT

Do this when: The creator posts long content on a real schedule You will actually run the volume (the system does the labor but you still pick the creator and watch what lands) You want distribution leverage without building a personal brand

Skip it when: You want money this week (this is a 90-day-plus build) Your creator has no long-form catalog (no source means no clips) You will not stay consistent even after the work is removed (the agent posts for you but it cannot care for you)

THE SKILL THAT MATTERS

The gap between a 12,000 view clip and a 500 view clip is not random. The clips that pop are not the educational ones. They are the emotional spikes. A wild moment. A hot take. A big reaction. The captions on the winners say things like "Wild" and "This is crazy."

The page is not clipping information. It is clipping feeling. And that judgment, knowing which 30 seconds out of a 2-hour video are the ones that will stop someone mid-scroll, is the one thing you cannot automate. Vugola's virality scores help but your eye for what hits is what separates a page that grows from a page that stays small.

Everything else, the cutting, the captioning, the scheduling, the posting, the system handles. Your only real job is picking the moments that matter.

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