Joonhyeok Ahn, an AI consultant for AI-first companies and founder of Threadsight, recently posted something that made me stop scrolling: "Most founders think short-form content takes hours. With this n8n system, it takes me 30 seconds. I paste a YouTube link into Google Sheets. AI handles everything else." That single paragraph captures a problem almost every founder I know runs into: short-form content feels important, but it also feels impossibly time-consuming.

In the same post, he went on to describe how his system automatically finds the best 15\u201160 second moments, creates clips, writes platform-specific captions, and posts them to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and LinkedIn. No editing. No scheduling. No dashboards. Before: 2\u20113 hours per video. After: 30 seconds.

That contrast is what I want to unpack here.

"Most founders think short-form content takes hours."

"With this n8n system, it takes me 30 seconds."

"I paste a YouTube link into Google Sheets."

"AI handles everything else."

As simple as that sounds, there is a powerful strategic idea underneath: treat content distribution as a system, not a chore.

The Founder Problem: Short-Form Feels Like a Time Sink

If you run a company, your calendar is already overflowing. You might manage to record a YouTube video, host a webinar, or sit down for a podcast interview. But then comes the part everyone dreads: turning that long-form asset into a week\u2019s worth of short-form content.

You know you should be on TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and LinkedIn. You know your audience is fragmented across all of them. Yet the actual workflow often looks like this:

Re-watch or re-listen to your own content to find good moments
Manually clip each segment in a video editor
Add captions, crop for vertical, fix framing
Write new captions for each platform
Upload and schedule each post

Do that for a single video, and 2\u20113 hours disappear. Do it for every video, and it becomes unsustainable.

That is the friction Joonhyeok Ahn is addressing. Instead of accepting that short-form has to consume your schedule, he designed a workflow where one simple action \u2014 pasting a YouTube link into Google Sheets \u2014 sets everything else in motion.

From One Video to 10 Clips: What Joonhyeok Ahn Built

At the heart of his approach is a simple promise: if you are creating YouTube videos, podcasts, or webinars and only posting once, you are leaving reach on the table. One video should become 10 clips across 4 platforms \u2014 a true 10x distribution effect.

So what does his system actually do?

Ingests a long-form asset
You paste a YouTube URL into a Google Sheet. That simple row update is enough to trigger an n8n workflow.
Transcribes and understands the content
Behind the scenes, an AI model converts the audio into text and analyzes the transcript to find the most engaging 15\u201160 second segments. Instead of you scrubbing through the timeline, the system looks for hooks, insights, and emotionally resonant lines.
Generates short-form clips automatically
Once the best moments are identified, an automated video editing step cuts the clips, formats them for vertical video, and can even add burned-in captions and simple branding. The goal is not cinematic perfection; it is speed, consistency, and relevance.
Writes platform-specific captions
A clip that works on TikTok might need a different angle on LinkedIn. AI can generate multiple variations: a more playful hook for TikTok}