About us
A video is finished the moment the editor hits export. Getting it published takes another three days — a Drive link here, a voice note there, and a version nobody can quite identify. ProdBeast is where that part happens instead.
Storage
Your own Google Drive
Publishing
Direct to YouTube
Reviewers
No account needed
Built for
Creators & editors
Where this came from
Drive is good at holding a four-gigabyte file. YouTube is good at publishing one. WhatsApp is good at talking. The trouble is that every video has to pass through all three, and none of them knows what the others did.
So the editor exports, uploads, pastes a link and waits. The creator watches it on a phone between two other things and sends back a voice note with three separate notes in it, none of them timecoded. The editor listens twice, guesses, fixes what they think was meant, and exports again — into a folder that now holds final, final_v2 and final_REAL. A week later nobody can say which one was approved, or by whom.
That is not a missing feature in any of those three tools. It is the absence of somewhere for the middle part to happen.
How we think about it
Most video tools are built for the person cutting the footage. The slow part is everything after that — someone else has to watch it, say what is wrong, and agree it is done. ProdBeast covers the stretch between “exported” and “published”, which is usually where the days go.
Uploads go straight into your own Google Drive and stay there. We keep a lightweight streaming version so people can scrub through a cut without downloading four gigabytes, and it is deleted once you publish. Close your account tomorrow and every finished video is still sitting where it always was.
“Fix the thing near the middle” means watching the whole video again to find it. Here a comment is attached to a timecode, so it shows up as a marker under the scrub bar. Click it and you are at 0:42, looking at exactly what was meant.
The loop
The editor’s browser sends the cut straight to Google Drive. It never passes through us, so there is no size limit to work around.
We prepare a streaming version so the cut actually plays and scrubs in a browser. Reviewers leave comments pinned to the second they are talking about.
Approve it, send it back with a reason, or reject it — the other person gets an email either way. A new cut uploads against the same item, so the thread does not restart.
The approved file goes from Drive to YouTube with its title, description, tags, thumbnail, privacy setting and publish time already filled in.
Once it is live the numbers come back — views, watch time, likes, comments — next to the video rather than in a separate tab.
The founder
Yadav Narayan
Founder of ProdBeast
I kept running into the same problem from both sides of it. Editors who had finished a cut days ago and were still waiting to hear anything back. Creators sitting on forty unwatched Drive links with no idea which one was current. Everybody was working. Nothing was moving.
What struck me was that no single tool was failing. Drive stored the file exactly as asked. WhatsApp delivered the message. YouTube published what it was handed. The work was falling into the space between them — and that space had no owner, so it became everyone’s problem, which usually means nobody’s.
ProdBeast exists to give that space an owner. Not another place to store video: you already have one, and moving a library is a tax nobody wants to pay. Not another chat app either. Just the specific missing piece — somewhere a finished cut can be watched, marked up at the exact second something is wrong, approved by the person whose call it actually is, and published to YouTube without the file ever leaving the Drive account that owns it.
Three decisions came out of that, and I have not moved on any of them. Your finished files stay in your own Drive, permanently, because a tool you can walk away from is a tool you can trust. Your client should never have to create an account before they can tell you what they think — that requirement is exactly where feedback quietly dies. And every approval carries a name and a timestamp, because “I thought we agreed on v2” is a bad way to end a good project.
It is still early, and what gets built next is shaped by what people tell us they are stuck on. If you are an editor tired of chasing sign-off, or a creator tired of scrubbing through cuts on your phone, I would genuinely like to know how it goes.
More about Yadav Narayan — background, and what he is opinionated about.
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