Been quietly building a faceless YouTube channel using Claude and I'm embarrassingly close to monetisation

have heard so many people talk about making money online doing "nothing." Faceless youTube channels, AI generated content, passive income while you sleep, the whole thing. I always scrolled past it. Felt like the same energy as those "I made $47,000 last month dropshipping" guys from 2017. But then I got desperate enough to actually try something.I was between projects, bills were doing their thing, and I had more free time than money. So I just started messing around. No grand plan, genuinely no idea what I was doing. Started a faceless youtube channel. Nothing fancy. The workflow I landed on is probably not even that optimized but it works for me so I'm sticking with it for now. Claude for scripting is honestly where most of the work happens. I dump a rough idea, some bullet points, occasionally a voice note transcript and it comes back with something that actually sounds like a person wrote it rather than a robot trying to sound like a person. I've tried other things for this and kept coming back. Nothing revolutionary, just consistent. ElevenLabs for voiceover because I cannot stand the sound of my own voice and frankly neither should anyone else. Magic Hour for the actual video generation which I found randomly and just never switched away from. CapCut to clean everything up at the end. That's literally it. Nothing sophisticated. Probably doing half of it wrong. I just checked my YouTube studio this morning and I'm close to hitting monetisation. Closer than I expected honestly. I'm not saying it's a goldmine, I don't even know if it'll amount to anything real yet. But something is moving and that feels like more than I had before. I'm mostly posting this because I spent weeks looking for someone to just honestly share what they were doing without it turning into a sales pitch for their $499 course. Probably not useful to most people but if anyone is doing something similar I'd genuinely love to compare notes.