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Guides and notes from real builds.
Practical guides to faceless and Sinhala video from people who make them, plus lessons from real client work.
Faceless video guides
How to make faceless YouTube Shorts without editing
A step-by-step way to make faceless YouTube Shorts: format, script, AI voice, footage, captions and thumbnail, with what worked and failed on our own channel.
16 faceless YouTube channel ideas, with a format for each
Sixteen faceless YouTube channel ideas we have actually built: Shorts, long-form and Sinhala formats, with the length, visuals and story shape for each one.
Can you monetize AI faceless videos on YouTube? What the rules say
What YouTube's policies say about AI and faceless videos: the inauthentic content rule, when to disclose synthetic media, and how to stay eligible.
Faceless video makers compared: Vidlyn, InVideo, Pictory, Fliki and Revid
Faceless video makers compared on price, what you pay for, Sinhala support and who each suits, with prices checked on vendor sites in November 2026.
How to schedule YouTube Shorts in bulk, plus Facebook and TikTok
How to schedule a backlog of YouTube Shorts and post to Facebook and TikTok from one place, with each platform's API limits explained.
How Vidlyn turns a topic into a finished video
Why a faceless-video app never renders until you've looked, how Sinhala was made to work properly, and what it deliberately does not do.
Sinhala video
How to make Sinhala YouTube videos with AI
How to make Sinhala YouTube Shorts and long videos with AI: spoken-style scripts, word counts, voices, footage, correct captions and thumbnails.
How to add Sinhala captions to a video without broken letters
Why Sinhala captions break, and how to add them properly: getting accurate words, timing them to the audio, and rendering letters correctly with HarfBuzz.
AI භාවිතයෙන් සිංහල YouTube වීඩියෝ හදන්නේ කොහොමද?
සිංහල YouTube Shorts සහ දිගු වීඩියෝ AI වලින් හදන හැටි: ස්ක්රිප්ට් එක, AI හඬ, footage, captions සහ thumbnail. අපේම චැනල්වලින් ඉගෙනගත් දේවල් එක්ක.
Free tools
How to merge PDF files for free, without making an account
Combine up to ten PDFs into one file with no signup and no watermark, plus a plain answer to where your files go while it happens.
How to compress images for your website without uploading them
Shrink JPG, PNG and WebP images in your browser without uploading them, which quality and width to pick, and the one kind of image to leave alone.
Why our free tools don't ask for your email
The PDF merger and image compressor on this site exist to be genuinely useful, not to farm leads. Here's the actual reasoning, and the tradeoffs we accepted.
Studio notes
Building a crowdfunding platform Sri Lankans can actually trust
Why Sahaya shows its ledger on every campaign page instead of hiding it in a dashboard, and what that design decision actually costs to build.
One developer, no handoffs: how a solo studio actually works
What you gain and what you give up when the person scoping your project is also the person shipping it. An honest look, not a sales pitch.