How I Built a YouTube Shorts Brief Generator with PHP and the OpenAI API (in a Few Hours)

I've been building a YouTube Shorts automation engine as a side project — the kind of system that takes a niche, generates a script, hands it to a text-to-speech API, pairs it with stock footage, and uploads it automatically. The pipeline itself is a bigger build. But one thing kept slowing me down at the start of every session: I'd sit down to test a new part of the system and realise I needed a decent script to feed into it. Writing one from scratch every time was killing momentum. So I buil...