{"id":"2066515418240753831","url":"https://x.com/athcanft/status/2066515418240753831","text":"","author":{"name":"Will","username":"athcanft","avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1998559429684584448/zxEaCiTP_200x200.jpg"},"createdAt":"Mon Jun 15 13:37:24 +0000 2026","engagement":{"replies":31,"retweets":32,"likes":611,"views":271440},"article":{"title":"Lazymaxxing TikTok Slideshows: 600/month for $2","previewText":"I've been mass-producing TikTok slideshows with AI and scheduling them weeks in advance. Zero filming. Zero editing. Zero daily posting grind.\nThis article breaks down the exact system, step-by-step,","coverImageUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKlIjsrawAAVs-8.jpg","content":"I've been mass-producing TikTok slideshows with AI and scheduling them weeks in advance. Zero filming. Zero editing. Zero daily posting grind.\n\nThis article breaks down the exact system, step-by-step, and the slideshow generator is open source and FREE - you just bring your own API keys.\n\n> Repo link: [https://github.com/athcagithub/SlideSmith](https://github.com/athcagithub/SlideSmith)\n\n![SlideSmith - Open Source TikTok Slideshow Generator](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKgtDjVakAA8GKx.jpg)\n\n## 1. Why slideshows?\n\nTikTok is pushing slideshows HARD right now. They routinely outperform videos on fresh accounts, and the algorithm seems to give them an extra distribution boost.\n\n![TikTok Slideshows](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK2tZXlbYAAFW4C.jpg)\n\nThey're practically free to make. No filming, no UGC creators, no editing. Just images + text. Which means it's a distribution channel you can completely automate.\n\nWith paid ads I'm spending hundreds to find a winner. With slideshows, my cost per post is effectively $0.00 in API credits. Even if 95% of them flop, the 5% that hit are pure profit - and they drive installs on autopilot while I sleep.\n\nThe strategy is volume. You're not trying to craft one perfect post. You're flooding the algorithm with variants and letting it find the winners for you. \n\n## 2. How it works\n\nScrape Reddit → Generate text with AI → Render slides with ffmpeg → Schedule everything to Post-bridge\n\nHere's what each step does:\n\n1. Scrape Pinterest - Apify pulls images from Pinterest. These are your slide backgrounds. Pinterest is an endless free goldmine of aesthetic, native-feeling images - and far, far cheaper than generating them with AI.\n\n![Scrape Pinterest for Images](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKgu53cboAAdv37.jpg)\n\n2. Generate text - an LLM (via OpenRouter) writes the hooks and slide text. Prompted to match the viral slideshow formats already working on TikTok.\n\n![Generating Captions](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKgvIbwaIAAbuU5.jpg)\n\n3. Schedule with Post-bridge - each slideshow gets pushed to [Postbridge's](https://post-bridge.com/) queue via their API, spread across however many accounts and days you want.\n\n![Scheduling with Postbridge](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKgvUdZbEAAzVkr.jpg)\n\n> The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/athcagithub/SlideSmith\n\n## 3. Setup (5 minutes)\n\nYou need zero technical ability for this. If you can copy-paste, you can run it.\n\nHow to setup:\n\n1. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/athcagithub/SlideSmith\n\n2. Run \"npm install\" then \"npm run dev\"\n\n![Run \"npm run dev\"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKgw5vhaYAAq5c8.jpg)\n\n3. Visit https://localhost:5173/\n\n![Go to localhost](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKgxEAgbAAATANW.jpg)\n\n4. Add your post-bridge key in the settings panel:\n\n![Add API keys (BYOK)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKgxQKCa0AA1lX3.jpg)\n\nThat's it. No database setup, no deployment, runs locally. You can push it to vercel too if don't want to \"npm run dev\" every time.\n\n## 4. Generating & scheduling\n\nClick \"Generate\" and it'll spit out slideshows in bulk. Each one gets a hook, slide text, and rendered images - all unique variants.\n\n![Generating Slideshows](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKgxkYBa0AAj1-6.jpg)\n\nCurate them, filter out the shit ones, schedule the good ones. This takes me maybe 10 minutes. \n\nMy exact routine: 20 posts a day, scheduled 30 days out. That's 600 posts a month. Batched in one sitting, then I forget about it. [Postbridge](https://post-bridge.com/) drips them out across my accounts on schedule, and I check the analytics once a week to see which formats are hitting.\n\n![Scheduled on Postbridge](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKgyEAxbEAAKLSf.jpg)\n\nA few tips:\n\n- Don't post 600 to one account. Spread across 3-5 accounts - [Postbridge](https://post-bridge.com/) handles this.\n\n- If slide 1 doesn't stop the scroll, nothing else matters.\n\n- Mix in the occasional manual post so the account doesn't feel fully botted.\n\n- Soft CTA only. Let the slideshow content do the selling - same principle as my ads.\n\n## TLDR;\n\n- Clone the repo: https://github.com/athcagithub/SlideSmith (open source, FREE, BYOK)\n\n- \"npm run dev\", add your [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/) + [Postbridge](https://post-bridge.com/) keys (Apify optional - 100+ images included)\n\n- Click Generate, filter the good ones, mass-schedule to [Postbridge](https://post-bridge.com/)\n\n- 20 a day × 30 days = 600 posts a month, fully on autopilot\n\n- Set it, forget it, enjoy free $$$"},"adhxContext":{"savedByCount":1,"publicTags":[],"previewUrl":"https://adhx.com/athcanft/status/2066515418240753831"}}