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Scout

Finds the right DACH YouTube creators before your competitors do.

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What it is

Scout is the tool behind my creator-partnership work: it maps German-speaking YouTube niches, filters out dead and off-language channels, scores each creator's brand fit with AI and digs up a contact address.

Why I built it

Creator scouting is still done with spreadsheets and gut feel. Agencies charge for lists that are stale the day they ship. The fit signal is in the content itself — so read the content.

Highlights

  • ✦AI-expanded search terms per niche, with off-topic terms pruned
  • ✦Rule sieves first (language, recency, real views) so AI only scores what's left
  • ✦Fit score 0–10 with a German summary, likely products and existing sponsors
  • ✦Contact finder: descriptions → videos → the creator's own Impressum

Built with

Node.jsYouTube Data APIClaude HaikuSQLiteNext.js2026

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