ClipLedger

Taimur Haider, Himani Sah, Nayan Surya, Akshay Kumar, and Begaiym Adylbek kyzy built ClipLedger because they saw something obvious: YouTube Shorts is paying out billions to creators and nobody's making it easy to track. YouTube poured $100 million into the Shorts Feed monetization program and just committed $300 million more—creators are earning real money from 60-second clips, but there's no simple dashboard to see views, track payouts, and understand what's actually hitting your bank account. ClipLedger changes that. It pulls your Shorts performance data and payout info into one place so you actually know what you're making.

Six founders is a lot, but in this case it makes sense—you're attacking a global creator base who speaks every language and posts everywhere. This is a tool that could matter to millions of mid-tier Shorts creators who are earning enough to care but don't have the spreadsheet skills to track it manually. The YouTube Shorts ecosystem is still young and whoever owns the data layer for creators is going to be invaluable. ClipLedger is just getting started, but the timing is perfect—YouTube is in a war with TikTok and they're paying creators handsomely to win. If you're a Shorts creator tired of guessing what YouTube owes you, this is your new best friend.