Every morning, a video goes live on my YouTube channel. I didn't film it. I didn't edit it. My computer did all of it while I slept.
Here's the story of how I built Progress Bar of the Year - a fully automated YouTube Shorts channel that posts a daily update on how much of the current year has passed - and the surprisingly elegant tech stack behind it.
The Idea: Simple, But Strangely Satisfying
The premise couldn't be simpler: every day, a short video goes up showing what percentage of the year has elapsed, paired with a fun historical fact about something that happened on this same day in a previous year.
That's it.
