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Show HN: Find Faceless YouTube Channels with AI

1•andybady•2h ago
Here's my embarrassing story:

I thought "gaming highlights" would work. Made 20 videos. Got 47

subscribers. Realized the CPM is like $2-4. Would need 500K views

just to make $1K/month. Not happening.

Then I tried "motivational quotes". Saturated. Couldn't get any

traction.

Then "meditation music". Also saturated. Plus copyright issues.

I was so frustrated. I knew faceless channels could work (I saw

some making money), but I had no idea HOW to find profitable ones.

Manually searching YouTube was a nightmare:

- Most channels show face sometimes (not truly faceless)

- Can't tell if they're actually monetized

- No way to know their revenue

- Takes forever to find good examples

I wasted 3 months guessing. Made 50+ videos across different niches.

Got nowhere.

Then I realized the problem:

I was trying to find profitable faceless channels manually. It's

impossible. There are millions of channels. How do you know which

ones are actually making money?

So I built a scraper to track faceless channels making $5K+/month.

Started analyzing what actually works.

What I found:

- Personal finance reviews (budget products) - Channels making

$15K-35K/mo

- Tech comparisons (budget tech angle) - Channels making $12K-28K/mo

- "How it works" explained content - Channels making $8K-20K/mo

- Ranking videos ("Top 10 X under $Y") - Channels making $6K-18K/mo

- Historical deep dives - Channels making $10K-22K/mo

The pattern: All successful faceless channels pick a micro-niche.

Not "tech reviews" but "budget gaming laptops under $800".

I turned my research into a tool called *ApexVix* so other people

don't waste months like I did. It tracks profitable faceless channels

across all niches and shows you:

- Real channels making $5K-30K/month

- What niches they're in

- Growth patterns

- Upload frequency that works

It's free to use: apexvix

No signup needed. I just wish I had this when I started. Would've

saved me 3 months of guessing.

If you're struggling to find profitable faceless niches, this might

help. Happy to answer questions!

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