In 18 months, my team’s technical YouTube channel grew from 0 to 3.2 million monthly views, driving 42% of our SaaS product’s trial signups. But we wasted $27k in the first 6 months on manual workflows, broken SEO, and unoptimized video pipelines. Here’s every lesson we learned, backed by code, benchmarks, and post-mortems from 127 published videos.

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