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All Tutorials List — every VidFarm video in one place

The whole course on a single page. Every filmed chapter, in order, with its video, what it covers, and a link through to the full written guide. Watch it top to bottom, or jump to the one thing you're stuck on.

Copies the whole guide — prompts, next steps & all — for your AI agent

Key takeaways

  • This page collects 37 tutorial videos — every chapter of the walkthrough, the Marketplace course, and the standalone deep-dives.
  • Chapters are in filmed order: each one assumes the ones above it, so top-to-bottom is the intended path.
  • Every title is its own anchor link — copy the address bar after clicking one to send someone straight to that video.
  • Each entry links through to the full written chapter, which adds screenshots, copy-paste prompts, and the agent/devcli version of the same workflow.

How to use this page

Every video below is the same clip that lives at the top of its own chapter — this page just puts them all in one scroll. Nothing here replaces the written guides; it's the fastest way to find the right one.

If you're brand new, don't skip around: start with the quick demo, then swipe mode, then agentic editing. Those three take about ten minutes together and they establish the vocabulary every later chapter uses. If you already know what you want, use the filter above or the index below — the titles are anchors, so the link you copy points at the exact video.

Note A chapter showing a "filming soon" ribbon instead of a player means the written guide is published but its clip hasn't been cut yet. The guide itself is complete — click through and read it.

Filmed sessions, firstWatch on YouTube

The recordings that are also published on YouTube — up front, so if you arrived here from one of them you don't have to scroll the whole course to find it. Each one plays here too; the YouTube link under the player is the same recording.

These sit at the top by design. Everything below them is the course in filmed order.


Introduce VidFarmSwipe mode — the easiest way to get videos

The lowest-effort path: open Discover → Swipe and keep or skip pre-generated, on-brand videos. Set your product description first; VidFarm auto-recuts proven templates into ads for you and makes more in the background.

Watch: Swipe mode — the easiest way to get videos
Swipe to approve or skip. Set your product description first so every card is tailored to your business, then let the background jobs keep the stack full. Watch this one on YouTube

The zero-effort entry point, and the honest answer to "I don't want to edit anything." You write a product description once, and VidFarm keeps recutting proven templates into ads for you in the background while you keep or skip them like a dating app. Worth watching even if you plan to edit by hand — it's the fastest way to see which formats fit your offer.

Watch this one on YouTube — same recording, if you'd rather watch it there.

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Introduce VidFarmDesktop AI Agents — the best way to use VidFarm

Run a coding agent on your own machine — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Opencode, or Kimi Code — to drive VidFarm with free local rendering, all on the flat-rate subscription you already pay.

Watch: Desktop AI Agents — the best way to use VidFarm
Why a desktop AI agent is the best way to drive VidFarm — a real shell, a real filesystem, and free local rendering on a flat-rate plan. Watch this one on YouTube

The power-user path. A coding agent on your own machine — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Opencode, Kimi Code — gets a real shell and a real filesystem, which means free local rendering and unattended batches on the flat-rate plan you already pay for. This is the chapter that changes your unit economics rather than your workflow.

Watch this one on YouTube — same recording, if you'd rather watch it there.

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Operating ContextTikTok strategy — every post is a ticket

The posture that makes every other chapter pay off: why TikTok rewards audience response rather than effort, why account health is an asset, and how to build viral surface area instead of agonising over one video.

Watch: TikTok strategy — every post is a ticket
The full strategy briefing: why every organic post is a free attention lottery ticket, why TikTok rewards audience response instead of effort, what quietly destroys account health, and how viral surface area compounds. Watch this one on YouTube

The posture chapter, and the one to watch before you make anything. It reframes a post as a free attention lottery ticket rather than a masterpiece: TikTok scores audience response, not effort, so volume and healthy accounts beat one agonised-over video. It also covers the parts that quietly sink founders — panic-posting into a shadowban, judging strategy from tiny samples, and quitting one week before compounding starts.

Watch this one on YouTube — same recording, if you'd rather watch it there.

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Operating ContextStrategy & tactical video production

The full pro session: do the customer homework, run the consultation, source raws, remix templates, bulk-generate under a cost cap, gate everything on a best-practices regime, and distribute to affiliates on a schedule.

Watch: Strategy & tactical video production
The full 58-minute pro session, cut down from 2h 12m of raw footage: strategy homework, the consultation interview, sourcing raws, remixing templates, bulk generating under a cost cap, enforcing a best-practices regime, and scheduling the output to channels and affiliates.

The longest video on the blog, and the one that ties the rest together: a full 58-minute pro session, cut down from 2h 12m of raw footage. It opens on the homework almost everyone skips — about-offer.md and about-customer.md, five whys, real customer language off Reddit — then runs the consultation, sources raws, remixes templates, bulk-generates under a 10¢ cap, and schedules the output to affiliates. Watch it for the moment the hooks come back wrong and the fix is to correct the premise rather than the video. That single habit is what makes a batch of fifty relevant instead of merely well-produced.

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Operating ContextRepurpose any video into your own ad

The whole product in one demo: Copy Prompt any Discover video, hand it to a desktop agent, and transpose its winning formula onto your product — then dial the same ad from pure-AI (~$1.50) down to $0 by swapping generated video for clipped footage, and save it as a reusable template.

Watch: Repurpose any video into your own ad
The capstone demo: cloning a Discover template into a Travelize travel-app ad with a desktop agent, first at pure-AI (~$1.50), then rebuilt to $0 with clipped YouTube scenes + kinetic captions, and saved as a reusable template. Watch this one on YouTube

The cheapest recipe on the blog. Take any existing video, reuse a decompose if one exists, mine fresh clips straight from source URLs instead of uploading, keep the voiceover and music, and render locally for $0. Watch it for the cost posture as much as the edit.

Watch this one on YouTube — same recording, if you'd rather watch it there.

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Edit Demo — Clone a UGC TestimonialClone a UGC testimonial ad

Re-shoot a creator's winning "talking to camera" testimonial for your own product with an AI creator — Copy Prompt hands it to a desktop agent that builds a character card, a storyboard, then the final AI video, approving each step.

Watch: Clone a UGC testimonial ad
The advanced demo: import a skincare UGC testimonial, hit Copy Prompt, hand it to a desktop coding agent, and watch it build a character card and storyboard before generating the final AI video — reviewed side-by-side with the original. Watch this one on YouTube

The advanced demo. Import a real UGC testimonial, hit Copy Prompt, hand the whole thing to a desktop coding agent, and watch it build a character card and storyboard before generating the final video — then review it side by side with the original. This is the chapter that shows the ceiling.

Watch this one on YouTube — same recording, if you'd rather watch it there.

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DeveloperScripting mode — file-backed flows

Drive VidFarm from repeatable, file-backed scripts so an AI agent can build videos unattended.

Watch: Scripting mode — file-backed flows
The canonical scripting loop: fork once, pull composition + harness files, edit them in a script, snapshot, and render a whole batch with traceable renders. Watch this one on YouTube

Scripting mode turns a video into a set of files an agent can build unattended and repeatably. This is how you go from making one video to making fifty variants overnight.

Watch this one on YouTube — same recording, if you'd rather watch it there.

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Standalone deep-diveClone an ad style onto your own product

Borrow a template's look — not its content. Point an agent at a style you like plus your own website, and get an ad that explains your product in that style, in any language.

Watch: Clone an ad style onto your own product
Cloning an ad's style, not its content: Copy Prompt off a Vox-style template, point the agent at a different product's website, and get a Spanish-language ad in the same look.

The distinction this one teaches is the useful part: you're taking the style of a template, not remaking its content. The demo picks a Vox-style motion piece as the reference, hits Copy Prompt, then tells the agent to use that look to explain a completely different product — a business-diagnostic tool — with narration, music, and five animated captions, output in Spanish. It runs in hybrid cost mode, so AI video fills only the gaps the free paintbrushes can't.

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PlaylistVidFarm Walkthrough Tutorial

The main course. Explore the platform, run the common workflows, and finish with videos ready to post. Recommended for everyone.

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Introduce VidFarmVidFarm in 3 minutes — the quick demo

The fastest end-to-end path: pick a template, chat one edit to the AI editor, render, and post. Includes the one-click agent skill for Claude/Codex.

Watch: VidFarm in 3 minutes — the quick demo
The full quick demo, start to finish: from the Discover feed to a finished, posted short — with the AI editor doing the heavy lifting.

Start here if you only watch one. It runs the entire loop end to end — Discover feed, fork, one chat instruction to the AI editor, render, post — so every later chapter has somewhere to attach. The last minute is the part most people miss: the one-line agent-skill install that hands this same loop to Claude or Codex on your own machine.

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Introduce VidFarmAgentic video editing — edit by chatting

What it means to edit short-form video by talking to an AI director instead of dragging clips on a timeline, and why it's faster.

Watch: Agentic video editing — edit by chatting
A single forked short, edited entirely by chat: rewrite a caption, swap a scene, add a motion-graphic beat — the copilot applying each change live on the timeline.

The concept chapter behind everything else. It explains why describing an outcome ("make the hook harder, cut the dead second at 0:04") beats dragging clips, and what the copilot is actually doing to the timeline when it obeys. If the editor ever feels like magic you can't predict, this is the chapter that makes it predictable.

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Introduce VidFarmFree vs paid & bring-your-own-key perks

What the free tier includes, what unlocks on a paid plan, and how bringing your own AI keys (BYOK) changes cost and capability.

Watch: Free vs paid & bring-your-own-key perks
A tour of the two plans and the Add AI Key dialog: picking a provider, pasting a key, and seeing which features light up on free vs paid.

The money chapter: exactly what the free tier does, what unlocks when you pay, and how bringing your own OpenAI / Gemini / OpenRouter key changes both cost and capability. It also carries the three short provider walkthroughs showing where to create each API key — expand the one for the provider you're on and paste the key straight into the Add AI Key dialog.

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SetupRegister & set up VidFarm

Create your account, find your VidFarm API key, add your own AI provider keys, and install the agent skill so an AI can drive VidFarm for you.

Watch: Register & set up VidFarm
The full first-run setup: signing in with an email code, copying the API key, adding an AI key, installing the vidfarm skill, and confirming with vidfarm whoami.

The boring one that prevents most support tickets. Registering, finding the Developer settings tab, adding your provider keys, and confirming the account is actually wired up before you burn a render on a misconfiguration. Ten minutes here saves an afternoon later.

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Operating ContextThe viral video funnel — angles, hooks & awareness

The operating model behind short-form — awareness stages, angles, and hooks — plus how to run the whole funnel by chatting with VidFarm.

Watch: The viral video funnel — angles, hooks & awareness
A whiteboard walk down the funnel — from a viewer's awareness stage to a finished, posted ad — then a live Chat session that turns one product description into a targeted stage, a set of angles, and ten ready-to-use hooks.

Strategy, not software. Why one product needs several videos — different angles for different awareness levels — and how a hook earns the next two seconds. This is the chapter that decides whether the videos you make actually convert, and it's the framework the chat chips are built on.

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Operating ContextCopying competitors (the right way)

Feed a competitor's winning video to VidFarm, decompose why it works, and fork the structure into your own on-brand version.

Watch: Copying competitors (the right way)
Start to finish: pasting a competitor's TikTok URL, watching VidFarm decompose its viral DNA, running product-placement analysis, and recutting it into an on-brand ad.

Copying, done in the way that's both legal and effective: you lift the structure — the beat map, the hook shape, the pacing — and replace the substance with your own. The demo imports a competitor's short, decomposes it into scenes, and rebuilds it as a video that's unmistakably yours.

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Edit Demo — Easy RecaptionEdit demo #1 — easy recaption

Fork a proven template and swap only the captions to your message. The gentlest first edit, done entirely by chatting.

Watch: Edit demo #1 — easy recaption
The full recaption demo: fork a caption-driven template, rewrite every caption by chatting, render, approve, connect a channel, and schedule the post.

Edit demo #1 and the gentlest possible first edit: same video, new words. It's the fastest way to get a feel for how the copilot reads your instruction and applies it to the caption track, and it's genuinely useful on its own for A/B testing hooks.

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WalletYour wallet & credits, explained

How credits, cost centers, and rate limits work — what a render actually costs and how to cap spend.

Watch: Your wallet & credits, explained
A tour of the Wallet tab: reading your balance, topping up through Stripe, and decoding each itemized charge in the billing ledger.

What every line in your billing ledger means. Balance, Stripe top-ups, and an itemized read of which action charged what — so a render, a decompose, and a generation stop feeling like the same opaque "credits" number. Watch this before you scale up a batch.

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Edit Demo — Product Feature TeaseEdit demo #2 — product feature tease

Combine your brand media kit and a product demo recording into a punchy feature-tease using the AI editor.

Watch: Edit demo #2 — product feature tease
The feature-tease demo: upload your demo recordings and brand kit to My Files, swap a template's scenes to your footage, overlay your logo, recaption, render, and approve.

Edit demo #2: the short, punchy format for teasing one feature. The core move is the media swap — keep a proven template's timing and structure, drop your own product footage into its slots. It's the highest hit-rate format for software products.

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Sourcing & Clipping RawsThe three paintbrushes

The mental model for sourcing every shot: raw clips, HyperFrames motion graphics, reusable assets, and AI generation.

Watch: The three paintbrushes
The paintbrush mental model in action: the same beat sourced as a raw clip, a HyperFrames graphic, a reused asset, and finally true AI generation — cheapest first.

The mental model that makes sourcing click. Three ways to get footage — clip it from real video, generate it with AI, or upload your own — and when each one is the right brush. Short, conceptual, and it makes every later sourcing chapter faster to follow.

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Sourcing & Clipping RawsMy Files — the directory explorer

Where every clip, render, and asset lives: the five file roots, folders, move/copy, and the pop-out explorer.

Watch: My Files — the directory explorer
A tour of My Files: the five roots, drilling into a raws folder, moving and copying files, and attaching an asset from the chat dock's 'Your files' drawer.

My Files is a real directory tree, not a dumping ground, and this chapter shows why that matters. Roots, folders, moving and copying, notes and search — the organizational layer that keeps a hundred raws and a dozen forks findable once you're past your first few videos.

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Sourcing & Clipping RawsWorkflow — remixing clips

The end-to-end loop of turning a pile of raw clips into a finished remix inside the editor.

Watch: Workflow — remixing clips
The full remix loop: opening a fork, asking the copilot to swap a scene with a hunted raw, recaptioning the hook, compositing a greenscreen foreground, and rendering the result.

The full remix loop in one sitting: open a fork, ask the copilot to swap a scene with a hunted raw, recaption the hook, composite a greenscreen foreground, render. If you want to see how the pieces from the sourcing chapters actually assemble into a finished video, this is the one.

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Sourcing & Clipping RawsSourcing & clipping raws with AI

Browse the public raws feed, import a video by URL or upload, and let AI mine the best clips — or clip a subrange yourself.

Watch: Sourcing & clipping raws with AI
Start to finish: browsing the public raws feed, importing a long video, ticking 'Clip raws with AI' to mine clips, hand-picking a subrange in the Clipper, and watching both land in your library via Cloud Status.

How to fill your library with usable footage. Drop a YouTube/TikTok/IG/X link or upload a file, then let the AI clipper mine it into matching moments instead of hand-scrubbing for a subrange. Tracers let you label a batch so you can find it again a week later.

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Edit Demo — Easy RemixEdit demo #3 — easy remix with raws

Drop your freshly clipped raws into a template and let the AI editor cut them to the beat.

Watch: Edit demo #3 — easy remix with raws
The remix demo: hunt short clips out of a long-form video with an AI scan, watch it run in the cloud-status panel, then swap the hunted raws into a template's scenes and render.

Edit demo #3, and the first one that combines two skills: hunting raws from your library and asking the copilot to place them. This is where sourcing and editing stop being separate chores and start being one prompt.

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Edit Demo — Actor ReplacementEdit demo #4 — actor replacement

Keep a template's timing and captions but swap the on-screen actor for your own person or an AI-generated one.

Watch: Edit demo #4 — actor replacement
The actor-replacement demo: build a reusable character sprite card, then regenerate one scene with that character as the reference, keeping the template's timing and captions, and approve.

Edit demo #4: swap the person in a scene while keeping the timing, framing, and cuts intact. The obvious use is putting yourself or your product's spokesperson into a format that already works — no reshoot, no green screen studio.

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Edit Demo — Animate Static BookEdit demo #5 — animate a static book

Turn a flat book cover or page into a living, moving scene with HyperFrames motion and a consistent character.

Watch: Edit demo #5 — animate a static book
Start with one flat book-cover PNG, add a slow push-in, then generate real motion from the same frame — and post the finished recap.

Edit demo #5: give a still image motion. Ken Burns moves, parallax, and paced reveals turn a flat book cover or product photo into something that survives a scroll. The cheapest way to make static assets look filmed.

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Edit Demo — Animate Static BookCharacter consistency across shots

Build a character sprite card and use reference images so the same face and outfit survive every generated shot.

Watch: Character consistency across shots
Build a character sprite card from a couple of real photos, save the trio, and prove the same character survives across three different generated shots.

The chapter that solves AI video's most annoying failure: the same character looking like a different person in every shot. Character cards, folders, and a consistent reference set — the prep work that makes multi-shot AI narrative actually watchable.

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Edit Demo — AI Drama SeriesEdit demo #6 — an AI drama series

Storyboard a multi-scene narrative with recurring characters, lock every beat with cheap images, then generate motion into a cohesive series.

Watch: Edit demo #6 — an AI drama series
Cast two characters, storyboard six beats as images, generate motion from each locked frame, layer per-character dialogue, and post a cohesive short drama.

Edit demo #6 and the most ambitious one: a multi-scene AI drama built from a storyboard rather than a single prompt. It also shows the cost-confirm step honestly, so you can see what an ambitious generation actually runs you before you approve it.

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Edit Demo — Product PromotionEdit demo #7 — product promotion & demos

Turn a product URL or demo recording into a polished promo with hooks, feature beats, and a call to action.

Watch: Edit demo #7 — product promotion & demos
Brainstorm angles and hooks for an offer, re-theme a promo template with real demo footage and designed cards, then approve and schedule the finished promo.

Edit demo #7: the workhorse format. Product on screen, benefit stated, proof shown, call to action. Less clever than the drama series and far more likely to be the video you actually ship this week.

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Edit Demo — Motion ExplainersEdit demo #8 — Vox-style motion explainers

Build a kinetic-typography, data-driven explainer where the motion graphics are the message.

Watch: Edit demo #8 — Vox-style motion explainers
Generate transparent cut-out illustrations with create-overlay, float and animate them over a clip with CSS keyframes, add kinetic captions and a VO, then post.

Edit demo #8: explainer video in the Vox house style — typographic, diagrammatic, keyframed. Nothing is filmed; every visual is authored. Watch it if your product needs explaining rather than demonstrating.

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Support & SettingsTerms of Use & Privacy Policy

The plain-language version of what you agree to, the analytics and data we keep, and how to have your data deleted on request.

Watch: Terms of Use & Privacy Policy
The plain-language walkthrough of VidFarm's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy — what you agree to, what we keep, and how to get it deleted.

What you're agreeing to and what happens to your data, in plain language rather than a wall of clauses. Short, and worth knowing before you upload client footage.

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Support & SettingsCancellation & refunds

How to cancel your subscription, what happens to your wallet balance, and the refund policy.

Watch: Cancellation & refunds
Opening the Stripe billing portal from Settings, cancelling a plan, and how to request a refund within the 90-day window.

How to cancel, what's refundable, and what isn't — stated up front so you never have to guess. The help accordion covered here is also the fastest route to a human.

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DeveloperREST API & the agent skill (for developers)

Every VidFarm workflow is raw REST. Point an AI agent at the skill and it can drive the whole platform for you.

Watch: REST API & the agent skill (for developers)
Copying your API key from Settings → Developer, installing the vidfarm skill, and driving a fork-to-render loop over raw REST.

For developers: every step in this course is a REST route, and the agent skill is that API packaged so an AI can drive it without you writing a client. This chapter is the map between the two.

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DeveloperInstall the VidFarm devcli locally

Install the command-line director, run it local-first with HyperFrames bundled, and connect it to your account.

Watch: Install the VidFarm devcli locally
Installing @officexapp/vidfarm-devcli, running vidfarm doctor, then vidfarm serve to boot the full editor locally and render an MP4 for free.

Installing the devcli locally, which is what unlocks free local rendering and the file-backed flows. If you watched the Desktop AI Agents chapter and wanted it, this is the install.

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DeveloperFree mode with NVIDIA credits

Run the clipping-first free mode on NVIDIA credits — what you can do, and what image/video generation still needs.

Watch: Free mode with NVIDIA credits
Adding a free NVIDIA key in Settings, AI-clipping a long video for free, editing a template by chat, and rendering locally at zero cost.

The clipping-first free mode running on NVIDIA credits: what it genuinely covers, and which image/video generation steps still need a qualified provider key. Watch it before assuming free mode does everything.

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PlaylistBuy Videos on Marketplace

The specialist video agent bazaar: why buying beats building, how orders and payouts work on Dollar Platoon, and how to become a vendor yourself.

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Buy on the MarketplaceIntroducing the VidFarm Marketplace

Why buying from specialist AI video agents beats DIY: skipped R&D, efficient market prices, and the aggregated productivity of every vendor's prompt-engineering.

Watch: Introducing the VidFarm Marketplace
🎬 Walkthrough video — filming soon
A tour of the Marketplace: the featured-agents landing, browsing portfolios by category tag, and what happens after you invite an agent to an order.

A tour of the Marketplace — a bazaar of specialist AI video agents, each one a vendor's prompt-engineered setup tuned to a single style. The pitch is simple: someone already burned the iterations to make that style reliable, and invites are free.

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Buy on the MarketplaceHow to place an order on the Marketplace

Connect Dollar Platoon, fill in the order form, invite agents, review proofs, and pay out in USDC on Base — plus the etiquette that keeps your account in good standing.

Watch: How to place an order on the Marketplace
🎬 Walkthrough video — filming soon
Placing a real order end to end: connecting the Dollar Platoon key in Settings, the + Place order form, inviting agents from Browse, and approving the first delivered videos in the gig inbox.

The full buyer flow: connect Dollar Platoon, write the order, invite agents, review the proofs that come back, and pay out in USDC on Base. It also covers the etiquette that keeps your account in good standing, which matters more than it sounds.

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Sell on the MarketplaceBecoming a Marketplace vendor

Turn a well-engineered prompt into an income-generating specialist agent: the moat, the portfolio-to-allowlist pipeline, expected earnings, and how to apply.

Watch: Becoming a Marketplace vendor
🎬 Walkthrough video — filming soon
The vendor path end to end: publishing a portfolio on the builder, seeing it registered on the Vendor dashboard, receiving an order invite email, and fulfilling proofs on Dollar Platoon.

The seller side. How a well-engineered prompt becomes an income-generating specialist agent, what the portfolio-to-allowlist pipeline looks like, what vendors actually earn, and how to apply.

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Outside the courseStandalone deep-dives

These aren't part of a numbered playlist — they're self-contained deep-dives that assume you've already done the walkthrough.


Standalone deep-diveAgentic clipper loops

The standalone deep-dive: run an agent in a loop that claims paid clipping orders, edits them, submits the work, and collects the payout.

Watch: Agentic clipper loops
The 40-second explainer: customers post paid video orders, your agent claims what it can do, edits, submits, and the approved work pays out.

The standalone deep-dive that sits outside the course: an agent running in a loop against paid clipping orders — claim, edit, submit, get paid. Watch it after the devcli chapter, when you're thinking about running VidFarm as a business rather than a tool.

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Stop watching, start shipping

You've got the whole map. Open the Discover feed, fork something that already works, and have a finished short before you finish the next chapter. Cloud renders start at $0.01.

Open the Discover feed