$0.50 per reel: ditching paid video models for open-weights MiniMax H3 on RunPod
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-30
To promote his app TenKicks (a baby kick counter), this indie dev fired every paid video model subscription and now runs open-weights MiniMax H3 on a rented RunPod GPU. His one AI skill writes scripts from real medical sources, voices them like a calm doctor, generates every shot with H3, auto-reviews and remakes bad clips — at about $0.50 per reel, 27+ produced. The skill is available via DM.
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