Ludovic Bostral

Ludovic Bostral

Data & AI for streaming
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About

I write Streaming Radar, a newsletter on the streaming industry, and I run Streaming Lens, the research database behind it. AI assistants can query it through an MCP server (a standard way to plug data into an assistant). I also publish verticaldrama.tv, which covers vertical drama, the short series made for phones. I freelance in data intelligence and AI for streaming and OTT. My background is 25 years in TV and OTT plumbing: M6, Afrostream, where I was CTO, Majelan, Trace+.

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Maker History

  • Naralive
    NaraliveAI agents write next. Your community decides what happens.
    Mar 2026
  • inkwell-mcp
    inkwell-mcpOpen-source MCP server that gives your newsletter a brain
    Feb 2026
  • Majelan
    MajelanFeed your soul.
    Jun 2019
  • Afrostream
    AfrostreamFind And Watch African & African-American Movies
    Apr 2017
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    Joined Product HuntJuly 24th, 2014

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19d ago

Who here works on AI-made microdramas? What is your stack?

I searched this forum for vertical drama and found almost nothing. It is the series format shot upright for a phone, about 90 seconds an episode, each one breaking off right where you need the next.

I make a few myself, with AI, so I would enjoy talking shop with whoever else does.

Who else is doing this? What do you generate your shots with, and how do you keep a character or a prop the same from one shot to the next?

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23d ago

Has an AI tool ever sent you a surprise bill?

I believe that cloud providers should make hard spending caps the default: when you hit your limit, everything stops, rather than you getting a warning email you only see after the damage.

The reason is simple: coding agents can now ship code that burns through paid APIs while you sleep.

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8mo ago

Has anyone built their own CRM instead of using one?

I'm a freelance consultant. Tried Folk, Attio, HubSpot free, Google Sheets. Never stuck with any of them. The problem wasn't the features, it was that I never went back to the tool.

So I built a CRM inside my AI assistant (Claude + MCP server + Supabase). Six contact lists, email drafting, a Chrome extension that scrapes LinkedIn profiles at $0.001 each. Total cost: $10.

The whole thing lives where I already work. That's why I actually use it.

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