The Zero Cost Tech Stack: Everything Free Everything Automated

A developer at JPMorgan detailed a zero-cost automated content pipeline that generates and uploads videos to nine YouTube channels daily. The system uses local AI models like Ollama and Gemini for scripting, Google Cloud TTS for voice, Pexels for images, and MoviePy for video assembly, all orchestrated via launchd plist files. The developer claims the setup requires no manual work and costs nothing per month.

Creating content manually for 9 channels would take 8+ hours daily. I have a full-time job as VP at JPMorgan. The math doesnt work. Trending Topic CSV ↓ AI Script Ollama/Gemini ↓ Google Cloud TTS Voice ↓ Pexels Images + MoviePy Video ↓ YouTube API Upload <plist version="1.0" <dict <key Label</key <string com.gyaaninfive.youtube</string <key ProgramArguments</key <array <string /usr/bin/python3</string <string /path/to/upload.py</string </array <key StartCalendarInterval</key <dict <key Hour</key <integer 18</integer <key Minute</key <integer 15</integer </dict </dict </plist One plist per channel. Runs at the exact scheduled time. Google Cloud TTS: Free 4M chars/month Pexels API: Free YouTube API: Free Ollama: Free local Total: ₹0/month 9 channels. Daily uploads. Zero manual work.