Creator Scout
About
Creator Scout is a tool I built to find and track YouTube and Twitch content creators who might be a good fit for covering my indie games. It searches for relevant channels by keyword or by game played, pulls their stats, and automatically tries to extract a contact email, saving time on the research phase before an outreach campaign. Sending emails isn't handled by the app itself: Creator Scout exports a list compatible with Listmonk, an open-source campaign tool that takes care of sending, unsubscribes, and tracking.
Project Info
- Role: Developer
- Team Size: 1
- Status: Shipped
- Engine: ASP.NET Core
Why I built it
Part of marketing an indie game is finding YouTubers and Twitch streamers who might want to cover it, and doing that research by hand takes forever. Creator Scout speeds it up: it searches YouTube by keyword and Twitch by game played, pulls each channel's stats, and tries to extract a contact email automatically. Sending the actual outreach emails isn't handled by the app itself. Creator Scout exports a Listmonk-compatible list, and Listmonk (an open-source campaign tool) takes care of sending, unsubscribes, and tracking. It's built with ASP.NET Core (API + Blazor Server) and EF Core with SQLite, all containerized with Docker.
Features
- YouTube search by keyword, with filters on view count and video age, and configurable pagination
- Twitch search by game played, across VODs or clips
- Direct link to the video or clip that surfaced the creator
- Automatic email extraction, editable by hand before adding
- Creator profile with subscribers, average views, relevance score, tags, notes, associated games, and a blacklist
- Game management with customizable color badges
- Bulk CSV import with game assignment
- Listmonk-compatible CSV export
- YouTube quota tracking (10,000 units/day on the free tier)
- Dark theme
