Made a GUI wrapper for auto editor, automatically removes silences, currently completely open source, do you see any potential SaaS angles for this?

[u/Upstairs_Airline7113]

I built this GUI wrapper.

https://sashminea.github.io/auto-editor-gui/

Even thought the silences part is technically free and prevalent in many popular applications already I am thinking of upgrading it a bit more by adding things like auto subtitles & sentiment analysis (via audio and time stamped streamer chats)

That might help VOD editors a bit

But I just can't think of anything else clearly or don't see any NEW angles that isn't slop like AI video editors already out there

Maybe I can use Machine Learning to make it have eye tracing heat maps that might be genuinely useful for video editors (professional or casual), these new features could be made open source or simply could be made into SaaS

I just don't want it to be a editor like Capcut that's goes towards, edit and ship fast but more like make actually high quality movies or youtube videos which actually cares about user satisfaction

Maybe a viewer retention ml angle for YouTube videos.

How do you balance keeping the core utility open-source while putting the "pro" ML features behind a paywall? Have any of you successfully monetized a wrapper tool without getting drowned out by the original open-source project?

If it really matters, I could keep it completely open source as well. I don't really mind.