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Now is the Best Time to Make Money with Content (AI Tutorial) Transcript, AI Summary & Key Points

Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast · Feb 18, 2026 · Education · 15:33 · EN

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00:00 This is the best time in history to make tens of thousands of dollars a month publishing content that's inspired by someone else's content. Thousands of people out there, myself included, are making real money just by posting about stuff they're already interested in. I got over 5 million followers posting about business ideas because that's what I'm interested in.

00:17 But you can share anything and build a following. Local events, hacks for tired parents, motorcycle reviews, power washing videos, anything. The formula is simple. You pick a niche, you post consistently, and you build an audience, then you monetize. But most people get stuck on finding fresh content ideas every single day, multiple times a day. It can be a grind.

00:38 And after this video of mine went viral, I realized that's a problem that people have. They need more inspiration. They need to know where to look consistently so they don't have to turn this into a full-time job. Because without good systems, getting inspired by content to repurpose is exhausting. So today I'm going to build two automations using AI tools that will do all the research for me in my sleep.

01:01 These tools are going to find what top creators in my niche are posting about and it'll send me a weekly report and you can copy everything I'm doing for whatever niche you're interested in. So today I'm going to show you exactly how to set this up. Takes about 30 minutes. It costs about five bucks a month and it will run forever. So think about it this way.

01:19 Every successful niche has creators that are already crushing it. They've done the hard work. They've figured out what works. I don't want you to reinvent the wheel. So instead of just guessing what to post, we want to watch what they post and use it as inspiration. For instance, if a top healthy recipe account posts 5minute protein breakfast and it crushes, maybe you should make your own version of a 5minute protein breakfast.

01:43 Your spin, your personality. But the problem is that manually checking 10 different accounts every day is exhausting. and we want to hang out with our kids or our spouse. We don't have time for that. We don't want to be glued to our screens. So, we're going to automate it. All right. So, to get started, we're going to go to hostinger.com/kerneroff. Hey, that's me.

02:06 We're going to click claim deal. This plan is 61% off, so we're going to snag that. We're going to enter in coupon code kerner office. That's me. That's going to give us an additional 10% off. Okay. So, now we have to choose an operating system to work with. Um, in my experience, NAND is the easiest if you're not super technically advanced. So, we're just going to go with N8.

02:27 Okay, we're logged in. We're paid. We go to the dashboard. Then, we're going to click on VPS. We're going to go to the one that I just chose. You can see I'm kind of a heavy user of Hostinger here. So, it's going to be this bottom one. It's the newest one. We'll click manage. Now, we're going to click manage app. Okay. Okay, so right here they're sending us over to their partner N8N which is the automation platform.

02:49 Think of Hostinger as a budget user-friendly web hosting provider for the AI age and think of N8N for a budget automations platform for the AI age that needs a web hosting platform in order to operate. So you have to use both handinand. Go ahead and create an account. Now, in order to set up this YouTube automation, we need to connect YouTube, which is owned by Google, and we need to connect Google Sheets, which is owned by Google.

03:14 So, we've got to connect Google. Not as complex as you might think. We're just going to go to Google, and type in Google Cloud Console. There it is. Click on it. You can see I'm already logged in up here on the top right. You only need to do this once. Okay. Now, we're in the Google Cloud Console. We have to create a project. And for some reason, Google makes this a little confusing.

03:32 It's not there. You got to search for it. So, we're just going to search for the word project. And you can see create a project. We'll click on that. Name it whatever. Just click create after you name it. Okay. Now, this gets a little confusing because after you create the project, for some reason, often times Google wants to move you to a different project, one of their standard projects.

03:54 So, we're going to go up here to the notifications. Be sure that you're on the right project. Remember, I named mine Automation 67. So, if you're on the right page, you'll see your project name up here on the top left. Okay, we're good. Now, we need to click the left menu here. Go down to APIs and services. Then, we're going to go library, Gmail API.

04:13 We're going to search for that. There it is. Click on it. Enable. That's it. This will enable our automated emails. Now, we go back to the library. We're going to look for sheets. There it is. Going to click enable. Now, we're going to go back to APIs and services and go to OOTH consent screen. Get started. We'll give it the same name, automation 67.

04:35 Type in your support email. Okay. Now, under audience, we're going to click external. Then, next. Contact information. This can just be your email. And then finish. This is basically a regulatory step for Google just to make sure that you're not a scammer. Okay. Now, we go back to APIs and services ooth consent screen. Then, we're going to click on data access, add or remove scopes.

04:58 We're going to search for Gmail. And then we want it to read, send, and modify. So we'll just check those top three. Now we're safe to X this out because those will stay checked. Then we'll search for Google Sheets API. And we just want it to read and write. We're just basically telling the API the permissions that it needs to do or the abilities that it needs to have.

05:19 And an API is just a way for two pieces of technology to talk to each other. We're going to check this one and this one, which basically allows it to read and write. Then we're going to click update. And you can see all five of those API permissions have now been added. Three for Gmail, two for sheets. We'll click save. Now we're going to click on audience test users.

05:36 That's us. I'm going to add a different email of mine. And then I'll add another email just just to hedge my bets here. Okay. Now, we're going to go back over to NAN. We're going to click create workflow. Okay. Now, we click the plus. We need to trigger this workflow slashautomation and we're going to do it on a schedule on a recurring basis. So we'll click on schedule.

06:00 We're going to set mode for days between trigger one trigger at midnight. Sure, doesn't matter. Now we'll click execute step. Now we're going to click this next plus. This will be the next step in the automation. We're going to search RSS RSS read. Now, we need this automation to scan, search, read a YouTube channel. Now, to do this, we need a URL of the RSS feed of the YouTube channel that we want to scan regularly.

06:29 So, don't be confused. There are a ton of third party tools that will do this for us. I literally just go to Google and type in get RSS URL from YouTube channel. Now, you could click any of these results to use thirdparty tools to do it for you, but they all want you to register and get your email, and we don't want to do that. So, I'm just going to look at these instructions.

06:52 Cool. All right. So, to get the RSS feed without giving some random site your email address, we're going to go to the YouTube channel in question. We're going to rightclick, view page source, control. That's going to pull up this. We're going to do control find RSS. Boom. You see that blue URL right there? That is the RSS feed for his YouTube channel without having to give some shady site your email address.

07:14 So we go back to Naden. We go to the step that we're on the URL field. We're going to paste that in and click execute step. Cool. Now, how do we know that it's working? Look at the output. It's showing us all the data from that channel that we're looking for. So, we know it's working. We're going to X that out. Now, we're going to click the plus again.

07:31 Search for Google Sheets. We're going to click append or update row in sheet. Okay. Now we need to select credential. Create new credential. Choose credential type that one. And to fill in this field, we've got to go back to Google Cloud Studio. We go back to APIs and services credentials for the app that we created. Click on the edit button for the app that we created.

07:54 And it needs our redirect URL, which if you remember was right here. So we're going to copy it back here. Add URL. Paste that. Hit save. Cool. Now we need the ID which is basically the username for this. Back to NN. Paste that in. Then we go client secret. We're going to copy that. Paste it into NN. Leave that on all. Click save. Successfully created.

08:21 Awesome. Okay. Now to wrap this all up, we have to sign in. So we're going to sign in with the Google account that we just connected on Google Cloud Console. Connection successful. Awesome. Account connected. We're green. Awesome. Close that. On this dropown, we're going to choose this sheet within document append or update row. We're going to add the URL of the Google sheet.

08:44 We're going to do that by clicking share up here on the Google sheet that I just created. Anyone with the link editor. So, full permissions on that. I named it contents by. There's only three columns. Publish date, channel name, video name. Okay, we go there. We paste it there. Uh what sheet by name. Sheet one. There's only one sheet in there. So, we're going to map each column manually just to make sure it works right.

09:07 So, for publish date, see, it's pulling these columns from my sheet. We're going to go over here to the left, take publish date, drag it there. Cool. Channel name, we're going to go here. Author, that's the channel name. And this is important because we can add more channels to the sheet. If we were only tracking one, then it wouldn't really matter what channel name it was because we would automatically know.

09:29 And video name, we're going to do title. Okay, they're all there. They're green. Cool. Now, we're going to click execute step. Beautiful. It worked. We got three green check marks across the board. Okay. Now, the real test is to see did this automation actually work. We got to go to go to our Google sheet to check on that. And boom, there it is. Publish date, channel name, video name.

09:51 This is beautiful. It works. Now, you may be wondering, I thought he only had one video. No, he only had one long form video, but it pulled shorts as well. Five videos, five rows on the sheet. All right, so now you may be asking, well, I want more channels. I want to add 10 channels, 20, two, whatever. Easy, super easy. Go to the middle step here, RSS feed.

10:13 Click the three dots. You're going to click duplicate. You're going to do that. And then you're going to take this, you're going to connect that there. You also need to delete this connection right here by clicking the trash can. And then you're going to go here, drag that there, and do that there. So, what this is going to do is it's going to read one channel, then it's going to read the next channel, and then it's going to add them all to the sheet.

10:33 But there's an error here because we still need to configure this. So, you click on the three dots, click open, and we just need to swap out the URL of the channel that we want to track. So, what channel do we want to track? Let's support my best friend Nick. I want to track Nick's channel to see what he's publishing. So, I'm going to go to his channel page.

10:49 Remember, rightclick, view page source. It's going to open this. We're going to do control find RSS. We're gonna find the blue domain right there. Boom. Copy. And we're gonna go back to NAN. We're going to take this domain from Kyler's channel. Paste it. Execute step. Beautiful. You can see right here the output. It worked immediately. And then go here.

11:11 We're going to click play. It's running. It's running 75 items. Okay, that's a good sign. Go back to our sheet. Boom. Now, you can see there's a couple errors here for some reason, but that's always going to happen. nothing we can't fix. Everything else is almost perfectly accurate. And you can even set up limits where it's like, "Dude, don't scrape everything, just like the last 10, the latest 10.

11:33 I don't want to get too in the weeds, but Chad GBD can help you out with that." Now, remember, this is going to run at midnight every day, and we can have it run every 5 minutes if we want. But the more often it runs, the more we'll have to pay in credits. Now, how do I get an email notification every time this has been done? We're just going to click a plus here at the end of it.

11:51 We're going to search Gmail. We're going to click send a message. Okay, so I learned as I was doing this that you don't want to connect this step after the sheet. That's kind of redundant. You want to connect it after the RSS read. So it's basically it's going to scan a channel, scan a channel, add all the details of those channels here and email you at the same time.

12:12 So to do this step, we connect to our Gmail account. Resource is a message. We're sending it. We're going to send it to ourselves. So I put my email in here. Subject line doesn't matter. New vids, email type, we're going to do HTML. And the message, you're going to do expression instead of fixed. And you're going to paste in that HTML code. And I will put that in the show notes.

12:32 Easy to find. So you can paste that in directly. So now let's see how it works. It might not yet. We're going to click execute step. Whoa. Okay. It worked, but it worked a little too well. All right. So here's what my inbox looks like right now. Boom. Look at that. Too well. I got to configure this. Oh my gosh. I'm getting so many emails. Like, it works.

12:52 There's the videos that scanned. There's the date. That's all I asked for. But I got one email for every I got a lot of emails. So, let's figure out how to fix this so you don't have the same problem. Okay. So, I forgot a critical step here. I'm going to add a node right here between RSS and Gmail. Hit the plus. It's going to be called aggregate. We're going to do aggregate individual fields.

13:15 We're even going to rename it as titles just to make it a little cleaner. Now we're going to add another field link. We're going to rename it to links. Now we'll click execute step. Cool. Now we need to update our Gmail node. So we're going to click X. Go back to the Gmail node. Open. We're going to change this to this code. I'll put this in the show notes as well.

13:40 It just changes the syntax of these. We click X. Then we're going to execute the workflow again. All right, it looks like it worked again. Let's check our emails, though. And boom. One email received 7 minutes later, not 75. So, it worked. Beautiful. Now, I know in the beginning I told you I was going to build two automations, but it ended up I only needed to build one.

14:02 I just added them together to keep it extra clean for you. It scans the YouTube channels. It scrapes them. It adds them to a Google sheet and then it emails you all of the things that scraped and basically notifies you that it's also in the Google sheet as well if you'd like more info like the view count, title, publish date, etc. What does this cost you through Hostinger VPS?

14:21 About five bucks a month. The RSS feeds, the Google Sheets, the automations, all of that is free. And just compare that to any other content research tool out there that's going to cost you between $30 and $300 a month. And you own this. You can customize it. You can sell access to it. You can make your own content research tool. You could build another automation to scrape YouTube channel emails and email other YouTube channel owners and say, "Hey, do you want to spy on your YouTube competitors?

14:46 I will email you a list of everything your competitor is posting every morning for 30 bucks a month." So, you become the person that you're competing with. Building a niche audience is not complicated. The complicated/hard part is being consistent. With this workflow, you don't have to be consistent. The automation will do it for you. The hostinger setup does the research for you.

15:06 You just have to make the content, which is the fun part. Pick your niche, create this automation, let it run. And this is like the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. There are thousands of NN templates you can make. You can go to the NadN library and pick some pre-built ones for free. Or you can build one and sell it yourself to others. Just the template.

15:23 Hostinger is a great supporter of this channel, so it'd be awesome if you could support them using the link in my show notes. Thanks for hanging out on the Kerner

💡 Answer

Now is the best time in history to make money with content, especially by choosing a niche, publishing consistently, building an audience, and monetizing it.

🧠 AI Summary

Publishing niche content inspired by successful creators can generate substantial income, but consistently finding ideas is exhausting. A self-hosted N8N workflow on a Hostinger VPS can monitor YouTube channels through RSS feeds, record new videos in Google Sheets, and send one aggregated Gmail report. The setup takes about 30 minutes and costs about $5 per month, while the workflow can also be customized, sold as a template, or offered as a competitor-monitoring service.

🔑 Key Points

  • Choosing a niche, posting consistently, building an audience, and monetizing it is the core content formula.
  • Successful creators provide a source of proven content ideas that can be adapted with a creator's own personality and perspective.
  • N8N, Hostinger, YouTube RSS feeds, Google Sheets, and Gmail can be combined into an automated content-research workflow.
  • The workflow can monitor multiple YouTube channels, capture publish date, channel name, and video title, and send the results by email.
  • Aggregating titles and links before the Gmail step reduces many individual notifications to one email.
  • The setup takes about 30 minutes and costs about $5 per month through a Hostinger VPS.
  • The workflow can be customized, sold as a service, or packaged and sold as an N8N template.

✅ Actionable items

  • Select a niche and identify successful creators whose content can provide inspiration.
  • Create a Hostinger VPS and install or connect N8N.
  • Create a Google Cloud project, enable the Gmail API and Google Sheets API, configure the OAuth consent screen, and add test users.
  • Create an N8N scheduled workflow that runs at midnight or another recurring interval.
  • Find a YouTube channel RSS feed by viewing the channel page source and searching for RSS.
  • Use N8N's RSS Read node to scan each channel and append publish date, channel name, and video title to a Google Sheet.
  • Duplicate the RSS node and replace its URL to monitor additional channels.
  • Connect Gmail after the RSS steps and use an aggregate node to combine titles and links into one HTML email.
  • Set limits such as retrieving only the latest 10 videos when the full channel history is unnecessary.
  • Adapt successful content topics into original versions using a creator's own perspective and personality.
  • Build and sell N8N templates or offer channel owners a competitor-monitoring subscription.

💡 Business ideas

Sell access to a YouTube competitor-monitoring automation14:40

Provide YouTube channel owners with recurring emails listing everything their competitors are posting.

For
YouTube channel owners
Solves
Manually checking multiple competitor channels for new content is exhausting and time-consuming.
Validate by
Offer channel owners a recurring competitor-upload email service and assess whether they pay $30 a month.
  • Emailing a list of everything a competitor is posting every morning
Build and sell N8N automation templates14:54

Create reusable N8N workflows and sell the templates to other users.

For
People who want pre-built automations
Solves
Users can avoid building automation workflows from scratch.
Validate by
Create a workflow and sell the template to others.
  • Content research templates
  • Pre-built templates from the N8N library

🏗️ Business models

Niche content publishing00:26

Publish content about a chosen interest, build an audience, and monetize the audience.

  1. Pick a niche
  2. Post consistently
  3. Build an audience
  4. Monetize
  • Local events
  • Hacks for tired parents
  • Motorcycle reviews
  • Power washing videos
  • Business ideas
Self-hosted content research automation02:01

Host an automated system that monitors successful creators and delivers their latest content details for research and inspiration.

  1. Host N8N on a VPS
  2. Connect YouTube RSS feeds
  3. Store channel data in Google Sheets
  4. Send aggregated Gmail notifications
  • Monitoring one or more YouTube channels
  • Sending a daily or recurring report of new videos
Competitor-monitoring subscription14:40

Monitor competitors' YouTube uploads and email channel owners a list of what their competitors are posting.

  1. Scrape YouTube channel information
  2. Aggregate the results
  3. Email the results to channel owners
  4. Charge a monthly subscription
  • A service offering daily competitor-upload lists for $30 a month

💰 Monetization

Audience monetization 00:26

Monetize an audience built by consistently publishing content in a niche.

    Monthly competitor-monitoring subscription $30 a month 14:40

    Charge YouTube channel owners for recurring emails containing competitor-upload information.

    • Daily lists of everything a competitor is posting
    Selling automation templates 15:02

    Sell the N8N workflow itself as a reusable template.

    • Content research automations

    📣 Marketing

    Sales

    • Offer channel owners a daily competitor-monitoring report for $30 a month.
    • Sell completed N8N templates to other users.

    Branding

    • Adapt proven topics with the creator's own spin and personality.

    Distribution

    • Publish niche content consistently to build an audience.
    • Deliver automated research through Google Sheets and Gmail.

    Customer acquisition

    • Target YouTube channel owners who want to monitor competitors.

    🔍 SEO & discoverability

    Mistakes

    • Manually checking 10 different accounts every day is exhausting.
    • Connecting Gmail directly after the sheet step caused redundant notifications.
    • Failing to aggregate RSS results produced one email for every item.

    Other channels

    • Use YouTube RSS feeds and automated email reports to discover new content ideas.

    Content strategy

    • Monitor successful creators in a niche for topics that perform well.
    • Use successful topics as inspiration while creating an original version.

    🧭 Frameworks

    Content growth formula00:26
    1. Pick a niche
    2. Post consistently
    3. Build an audience
    4. Monetize
    Automated content research workflow06:01
    1. Schedule the workflow
    2. Read YouTube RSS feeds
    3. Append or update rows in Google Sheets
    4. Aggregate titles and links
    5. Send an HTML email through Gmail

    🧰 Tools & AI usage

    • Hostinger VPS — Host the N8N automation platform.02:01
    • N8N — Build and run the scheduled content-research workflow.02:46
    • Google Cloud Console — Create a project, enable APIs, and configure Google authentication.03:08
    • Gmail API — Enable automated email notifications.04:06
    • Google Sheets API — Allow the workflow to read and write spreadsheet data.05:10
    • YouTube RSS feeds — Provide channel updates for the automation to scan.06:01
    • Google Sheets — Store publish date, channel name, and video name.08:32
    • Gmail — Send aggregated reports about newly scanned videos.11:47

    AI is used for

    • Help configure limits for the number of videos scraped — Restrict the workflow to items such as the latest 10 videos.11:35
    • Automate content research — Find what top creators in a niche are posting and deliver recurring reports.00:56

    📊 Numbers mentioned

    Costs

    • RSS feeds, Google Sheets, and the automations are described as free.
    • Running the workflow more frequently uses more credits and increases costs.

    Growth

    • The setup takes about 30 minutes.
    • The workflow can run at midnight every day or every 5 minutes.
    • A test returned 5 videos and 5 rows, including Shorts.
    • A later test processed 75 items and produced one email containing 7 minutes of results.

    Pricing

    • Hostinger plan is 61% off.
    • Coupon code provides an additional 10% off.
    • The VPS costs about five bucks a month.
    • Other content research tools cost between $30 and $300 a month.
    • A proposed competitor-monitoring service charges $30 a month.

    Revenue

    • Tens of thousands of dollars a month is presented as possible from publishing content inspired by other content.
    • The creator reports making real money from posting about business ideas.

    Traffic

    • Over 5 million followers

    ⚖️ Advantages, risks & lessons

    Advantages

    • Reduces the need to manually check multiple creator accounts.
    • Can monitor multiple channels.
    • Can be customized and owned by the operator.
    • Costs about $5 per month through a Hostinger VPS.
    • Can support additional products or services based on the same automation.

    Risks

    • Running the workflow more often increases credit costs.
    • The test produced some errors when adding another channel.
    • Incorrect Gmail workflow configuration can generate excessive email notifications.

    Lessons

    • Consistency is the difficult part of building a niche audience.
    • Proven creator content can provide inspiration without reinventing the wheel.
    • Aggregating workflow outputs before sending email prevents notification overload.
    • A simple internal automation can become a sellable tool or service.

    💬 Quotes

    Pick your niche, create this automation, let it run.

    Summarizes the recommended process for combining niche content creation with automated research.15:08

    The complicated/hard part is being consistent.

    Identifies consistency as the main challenge in building a niche audience.14:55

    👤 People & companies

    Nick

    The creator's best friend whose YouTube channel is added as a channel to monitor.

    10:25
    Kyler

    A YouTube channel owner whose RSS feed is referenced while configuring the workflow.

    11:00
    Hostinger

    Web hosting provider used to host the VPS running the automation.

    02:02
    Google

    Owner of YouTube and Google Sheets, and provider of the Google Cloud, Gmail, and Sheets APIs used in the workflow.

    03:06
    YouTube

    Video platform whose channels are monitored through RSS feeds.

    06:01

    🔗 Links mentioned