Holding down a full-time job and running two side businesses at the same time.
One of them is a YouTube channel, started with no prior experience in video production at all.
What makes that possible is NoLang and Gemini.
Zatsugaku-kun works alongside AI on almost every part of running his channels: picking the news to cover, writing the script, choosing the background music, and analyzing the numbers after a video goes up.
He now runs two of them — a channel devoted to cars and a channel about trivia.
We asked him how he actually uses AI to keep YouTube going on top of a full-time job.
Starting a video side business with NoLang
― What do you do for a living?
I work as a company employee, and on the side I do a bit of everything.
One of my side businesses is importing American military-style apparel and selling it on Amazon.
And I also started running YouTube channels, thinking it would be nice if I could monetize video as well.
NoLang was the first video production tool I ever used — I had no experience before that.
― How often do you make videos?
Whenever I can find the time, but I’d say I’m making them pretty much every day. Last month I uploaded 21.
― Almost every day, then. How did you first hear about NoLang?
I really like watching YouTube, so I watch it whenever I have time.
And for some reason a video came up in my feed about earning money on the side with tools like this, and NoLang was introduced in it.
I think it was around six months after NoLang launched as a service. The video showed how you could make something like this quickly and easily with it, and I thought that was amazing — that’s how I got started.
― So an introduction video was the trigger. Did you compare it with other tools?
Not at all. It was NoLang and nothing else, right from the start.
Once I’d gotten reasonably used to making videos with NoLang, I did look into other services a little, but there was so much you had to do yourself. I didn’t think a beginner like me could manage that, so I decided to just keep using NoLang.
At first I copied exactly what the person in that video did, making videos from templates.
Then I gradually built up my own saved settings, and my style shifted to creating videos from those saved settings.
Making videos with Gemini doing the heavy lifting
― Could you tell us what kind of videos you make?
Right now my main focus is videos about car-related news.
And I leave everything to Gemini — picking the news, writing the script, even choosing the background music — and then make the video.
Gemini is a Google service, same as YouTube, right?
So it will tell you which background music is recommended for a YouTube Short, pulling from the YouTube Audio Library.
― Do you put the script Gemini writes straight into NoLang?
That’s right. Although AI does get things wrong sometimes.
That’s the one part I look into and fix myself.
I do the fact-checking myself, and after that I just drop it straight into NoLang and make the video.
On top of that, lately I’ve been using YouTube Analytics to analyze my videos together with Gemini.
When I started telling Gemini what my analytics showed, it began giving me all kinds of advice like “then maybe you should try this instead,” and I use that advice in making videos too.
Launching a channel in a field he loves: cars
― Could you tell us what led you to launch a channel devoted to cars?
I originally started with the trivia channel — a channel introducing trivia from all sorts of fields.
But it’s not like I have that much knowledge of trivia myself, so I was searching around and pulling material from here and there, and I gradually ran out of topics.
So I tried putting out a car topic from what I already knew, and it got the best response of any video I’d posted on the trivia channel.
― And that’s what led you to launch the car channel.
I thought it would be better to make a dedicated car channel rather than keep doing it inside the trivia channel, so I started the car channel around the end of October last year.
I’d been running the trivia channel since September, so in less than a month I found myself running two channels in parallel.
― Have you always liked cars?
I’ve always loved them. That’s why, with cars, even when I leave everything completely up to Gemini, I can still fact-check the content — which is a big deal.
Since it’s a field I love, I notice the mistakes.
― Being able to fact-check because it’s a field you love is a real strength. As you kept bouncing ideas off Gemini, how did your direction change?
I started out with a style of presenting car knowledge, but as I analyzed the analytics and talked things through with Gemini, the direction that came out was that “emotional stories that move people work better than providing knowledge.”
After that my style became building stories that move people.
▼ Here are the YouTube channels Zatsugaku-kun runs
The joy of watching view counts climb
― How do you make the videos for the trivia channel?
For the car channel I use only NoLang, but for the trivia channel I use NoLang and a tool called Vrew, depending on the video.
I used to make all the trivia videos with NoLang too, but there were things I wanted to change, like the fonts.
I also wanted to switch the music scene by scene partway through, so for videos where I want to add that kind of extra touch, I use Vrew.
― So the way you make them differs between Vrew and NoLang.
That’s right. If it’s just one video, NoLang is far quicker and easier.
But when I want to add a little extra polish, the image is that I take my time and make it in Vrew.
But as I said earlier, when it comes to how easy it is, NoLang is overwhelmingly better, so for a quick video I still end up making it in NoLang.
― I see — you use each one for ease or for craftsmanship. What do you enjoy about making videos continuously?
I haven’t monetized yet, but while working toward that, there are two videos whose view counts have grown.
They haven’t reached 100,000 views yet, but they’re getting fairly close.
When something like that happens, it’s fun — it gets me hooked.
― Thank you very much for your time today. We’ll keep strengthening NoLang’s development so your YouTube side business goes even better. We look forward to continuing to work with you!
[Editor’s note]
What struck us most in this interview was how Zatsugaku-kun uses Gemini at almost every stage of making a video.
He doesn’t just bounce ideas off it about the content — he consults AI across a wide range: choosing the topics to cover, gathering news material, working through slumps in view counts, and collecting video assets such as background music.
The way he arrived at the direction of “emotional stories that move people” through that accumulation of work also felt like something you can’t get overnight.
What supports that complete trust in Gemini, we think, is the fact that he can fact-check because it’s a field he loves.
Rather than leaving everything to AI, his own love of cars translates directly into quality assurance for his videos.
It reminded us that building on something you love makes the use of AI tools that much more solid.
Here are the social accounts Zatsugaku-kun runs
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