How I Went from Zero to YouTube Creator Without Showing My Face (And Why I Built LzyPrompt)

Table of Contents

• Wait, You Don’t Have to Show Your Face?
• Then I Found AI Video Generators
• Reality Hits: The Prompt Problem
• The ChatGPT Workaround
• My Love for Automation
• Building LzyPrompt
• Everything Changed
• The Bigger Realization
• Why I’m Sharing This

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I wanted to make money from YouTube. But there was one problem: I absolutely did not want to be on camera.

Not because I’m shy (okay, maybe a little). But mainly because talking to a camera felt… weird. Forced. Like I was performing instead of creating.

I’d watch other creators and think “good for them, but that’s not me.” So I did nothing. Just watched from the sidelines while others built their channels.

Then I discovered something that changed everything: faceless channels.

Wait, You Don’t Have to Show Your Face?

I stumbled onto a YouTube channel making $5,000 a month posting compilation videos. No face. No voice. Just good content and smart editing.

Then another one. And another. Entire channels thriving without the creator ever appearing on screen.

That’s when it clicked: “I can do this.”

I started researching. Turns out there’s an entire ecosystem of faceless content creators. Animation channels. Compilation channels. Educational channels with just voiceovers and stock footage.

The possibilities seemed endless. I could create content about topics I actually cared about without ever being on camera.

The decision was made. I was going to build faceless channels and make this work.

Then I Found AI Video Generators

A few weeks into my research, I discovered AI video generators. Sora. Runway. Pika.

My mind exploded.

You could type a description and get a professional-looking video in minutes. No filming. No expensive equipment. No video editing skills required.

This wasn’t just good. This was perfect.

I immediately started experimenting. Generated my first AI video: a sunset over mountains. It looked incredible. Way better than anything I could film myself.

The dream crystalized: I’d create YouTube Shorts and Facebook Reels using AI-generated videos. Multiple channels covering different niches. Scale it up. Build that passive income everyone talks about.

I was so excited I could barely sleep that night.

Reality Hits: The Prompt Problem

Then I actually tried to create content consistently.

My first attempt: “cat playing with a ball in living room”

The result? A weird, blurry mess that barely looked like a cat, let alone a living room.

I tried again: “beautiful cat playing with red ball on wooden floor”

Better. But still not what I envisioned.

I went to Reddit. Read tutorials. Watched YouTube videos about “prompt engineering” (yes, that’s apparently a thing now).

Turns out, AI video generators need really specific, detailed prompts. Not just what you want, but how you want it filmed:

• Camera angles
• Lighting conditions
• Shot composition
• Style and aesthetic
• Technical details

Terms like “shallow depth of field,” “golden hour lighting,” “medium close-up shot,” “handheld camera movement.”

Here’s the thing: English isn’t my first language. These technical filmmaking terms? They didn’t come naturally to me at all.

I’d spend 20-30 minutes crafting a single prompt. Looking up terms. Trying to describe camera angles I could visualize but couldn’t name. Second-guessing every word choice.

After 30 minutes of work, I’d have one mediocre prompt that might or might not give me the video I wanted.

This wasn’t the dream. This was exhausting.

The ChatGPT Workaround

I thought I found the solution: use AI to write prompts for AI.

Brilliant, right?

I started using ChatGPT and Gemini to write my video prompts. I’d describe what I wanted, and they’d give me a proper, detailed prompt with all the technical terms.

It worked! The results were way better.

But it still took time. A lot of time.

My process became:

1. Think of video idea
2. Open ChatGPT
3. Describe what I want
4. Wait for response
5. Copy the prompt
6. Paste into video generator
7. Generate video
8. If it’s not quite right, go back to step 2

Each prompt still took 10-15 minutes. Sometimes longer if I needed to iterate.

I was running multiple channels. Posting 5-7 videos per week across YouTube and Facebook. That’s 20-30 videos per month.

Do the math: 25 videos × 15 minutes = 6+ hours per month just writing prompts.

And that’s being optimistic. Some weeks it felt like all I did was write prompts.

I was spending more time crafting prompts than actually working on my channels’ strategy, thumbnails, or finding trending topics.

Something had to change.

My Love for Automation

I’ve always been obsessed with automation.

If I find myself doing something repetitive, something that follows a pattern, my brain immediately goes: “There has to be a better way.”

I’ve built tools for myself before. Little scripts. Shortcuts. Automations that save me 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there.

It adds up.

I looked at my prompt-writing process. Hours every week. Doing essentially the same thing over and over: turning simple ideas into detailed, technical prompts.

The pattern was clear. The repetition was obvious.

And I thought: “What if I could turn 30 minutes into 30 seconds?”

Not just for one prompt. But for 10 variations of that prompt. Different camera angles. Different lighting. Different styles.

What if I could type “cat chasing dog in backyard” and instantly get 10 professional prompts ready to use?

The decision wrote itself: I’m going to build this.

Building LzyPrompt

I didn’t set out to build a product for other people. I built it for me.

I needed a tool that would:

• Take my simple ideas in plain English
• Generate multiple professional variations automatically
• Include all those technical details I struggled with
• Work fast - really fast

I started researching what makes good AI video prompts. I analyzed hundreds of successful prompts. I broke down the patterns:

Every great prompt needs:

• Camera work: Shot type, angle, movement
• Lighting: Natural vs artificial, time of day, mood
• Style: Cinematic, documentary, surveillance cam, etc.
• Technical specs: Resolution, depth of field, color grading
• Audio context: Ambient sounds, atmosphere

I built these patterns into the system. Taught it to think like a videographer.

The first version was rough. Really rough. But it worked.

I typed: “sunset over ocean”

It gave me 10 variations:

• Cinematic wide shot with golden hour lighting
• Aerial drone footage with dramatic clouds
• Time-lapse condensing 2 hours into 30 seconds
• Handheld beachside perspective with waves
• Security camera aesthetic from pier
• And 5 more completely different approaches

It took 15 seconds.

I sat there staring at my screen. This was it. This was exactly what I needed.

Everything Changed

My workflow transformed overnight.

Before LzyPrompt:

• Sunday evening: 3-4 hours writing prompts for the week
• Dread opening my laptop
• Procrastinating because it felt like homework
• Rushing at the last minute

After LzyPrompt:

• Sunday evening: 20 minutes generating all my prompts
• Actually excited to plan content
• Time to experiment with different styles
• Energy left for thumbnail design and trend research

My channels started growing faster. Not because the AI videos got better (they were always good). But because I was posting more consistently. Testing different approaches. Adapting to trends faster.

When you’re not spending hours on prompts, you have time to actually think strategically about your content.

The Bigger Realization

A few weeks in, I shared LzyPrompt with a friend who was also building a faceless channel.

He messaged me two days later: “This is insane. I’ve been struggling with the same prompt problems for months.”

That’s when I realized: I wasn’t the only one fighting this battle.

There are thousands of people out there:

• Non-native English speakers struggling with technical terms
• Creators who know what they want but can’t articulate it properly
• Entrepreneurs wanting to scale their channels but limited by prompt-writing time
• People just starting with AI videos and feeling overwhelmed

Everyone facing the same wall I hit.

And now I had the tool that could help them climb over it.

Why I’m Sharing This

I could’ve kept LzyPrompt to myself. Used it as my secret weapon for my own channels.

But here’s the thing: I built it because I needed it. And if I needed it, others probably do too.

This isn’t some revolutionary technology. It’s just smart automation applied to a real, annoying problem.

I’m not trying to sell you a dream. I’m not promising you’ll make $10,000 a month or become YouTube famous.

What I am saying is this:

If you’re building faceless channels like me, if you’re tired of spending hours crafting prompts, if you’re using ChatGPT or Gemini and still finding it tedious… try LzyPrompt.

It does one thing really well: turns your simple ideas into professional AI video prompts. Fast.

• Type your idea in plain words
• Get 10 professional variations in seconds
• Pick your favorite and generate your video
• Actually spend time on your content strategy instead of prompt writing

I built the tool I wish existed when I started. Maybe it’s the tool you need too.

There’s a 7-day free trial. No pressure. Just try it with your own channel and see if it saves you time.

If it helps you like it helped me, great. If not, no hard feelings.

I’m just a solo creator who got tired of wasting time on repetitive work and decided to do something about it.

Sometimes the best products come from scratching your own itch.

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