Descript's MCP was rate-limited, so he built his own editor for Claude
Sankalp Sinha was paying Descript $29 a month to edit his reels, but its MCP integration with Claude was rate-limited. So he built his own. Now Claude sees the video, edits it, generates captions, trims exactly where and how he wants, adds extra animations and UI, and exports smoothly. The lesson for SaaS is sharp: the moment a customer's AI workflow hits your rate limit, you've shown them which part of your product they actually need, and that they can rebuild it without you. 'AI is good,' he says. Descript might disagree.
Saving, as stated by the author: $29/month
Was paying Descript $29/month for editing my reels but their MCP with Claude was rate limited.
Went ahead and built my own. Now Claude
- sees the video
- edits it
- generates captions
- trims where I want and how I want
- add extra animations/UI
- exports smoothlyAI is good :)
— Sankalp Sinha (Left $15K+ MRR job to indiehack), read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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