Character Sheet

Becky Isjwara

LVL 29Paladin Content Strategist

@beckyisj

Attributes

Creativity

Strategy

Production

Writing

Puns

Background

Former finance journalist turned YouTube producer. I wrangle creative chaos into consistent output, and I have strong opinions about fonts.

AlignmentChaotic Creative

WeaknessStationery shops, film cameras

GuildSmall Creator, Big World

RegionHong Kong

⚔️ Quest Log

Active Quests

1 Main · 2 Side

Main

YouTube Content Strategy

I run strategy and production for one of the biggest educational YouTube channels in the world. Titles, thumbnails, team, systems. All of it.

Active

Content Nodes

🧠 Productivity🎥 Creator💰 Money

6.5M subs on Ali Abdaal

Side

Building YouTube Producer Tools

Free tools I've built to make YouTube production less painful. Podcast packager, channel audit, quote carousels, and counting.

Tracking

Side Quest Progress

🎙️ Podcast Packager — shipped

🎯 Channel Audit — shipped

🎠 Quote Carousel — shipped

🔥 Popular This Year — shipped

🔒 2 more in development...

Side

Teaching non-engineers to ship web apps

A Claude Code starter kit I built for creators who code a little. 8 skills, 5 backend guides, everything I wish I'd had when I started shipping.

Shipped

Kit Contents

🧪 8 Claude Code skills

📖 5 backend guides

⚡ Next.js · Vercel · Supabase

Open source. Free. No email.

✨ Abilities

YouTube isn't just content. It's the top of the funnel.

I run strategy for Ali Abdaal's YouTube channel (6.5M subs). Every video, every title, every thumbnail is a decision that connects to launches, growth, and revenue.

Packaging-first approach

🎯

Ability — Strategy

No title, no video. Thumbnail concepts before scripts. The packaging is the strategy.

legendary

Every video starts with the title and thumbnail, not the idea. If we can’t package it in a way that earns a click, it doesn’t get made. The concept only expands once the packaging is locked.

“If the title doesn’t make you want to click, the video doesn’t exist yet.”

Pre-production obsessed

🎬

Ability — Production

Scripting and research before anyone hits record. Checklists for everything.

epic

Thumbnail concepts before filming. Shot lists before the camera rolls. Research docs before the outline. The more work done before record, the less wasted after.

“Pre-production is where good videos become great ones.”

Data-informed decisions

📊

Ability — Analytics

A/B test titles and thumbnails, build playbooks. But always start with a gut feeling.

rare

Track 57 channels daily. Build playbooks from patterns. A/B test every title and thumbnail. But data informs the decision — it doesn’t make it. Intuition goes first, numbers validate.

“Data says what happened. Strategy decides what’s next.”

Full platform ownership

📺

Ability — Operations

Long-form, Shorts, community tab, campaigns. The whole channel, not just the videos.

uncommon

Long-form, Shorts, community tab, campaign integrations, banner updates, playlist strategy. I manage the entire channel surface — not just the upload pipeline.

“A YouTube channel is a product, not a playlist.”

🎒 Inventory

Tools I've built for creators.

Free tools to make YouTube production less painful.

4 / 6 equipped

🎙️

Podcast Packager

Paste a transcript, get titles, thumbnail texts, and descriptions.

Tool

Paste your podcast transcript and get 10 title options, 6 thumbnail texts, and 3 descriptions in seconds. Built for creators who repurpose long-form content.

Open →

🎯

Channel Audit

Full breakdown of any channel’s thumbnails, titles, and patterns.

Tool

Plug in any YouTube channel and get an AI-powered deep-dive analysis of thumbnails, titles, upload patterns, and growth strategy.

Open →

🎠

Quote Carousel

Drag-and-drop quote selection. Auto-generates branded slides.

Tool

Pick quotes from a transcript, pair them with video frames, and export Instagram-ready branded carousels in one click.

Open →

🔥

Popular This Year

See any channel’s top videos from the past 12 months at a glance.

Ext.

Chrome extension that adds a “Popular This Year” filter to any YouTube channel page. Great for competitor research and trend-spotting.

Install →

🔒

Coming Soon

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📖 Tomes

Books I've written.

One book arguing you can have a creative life around a day job. One that's the proof of it: 72 pages of Hong Kong paintings made in the margins of one.

2 tomes

LegendaryEbook · 2026

Bite-Sized Creativity

Live your creative life on top of your 9-to-5

You don’t need to quit your job to live a creative life. You just need 30 minutes — and a plan for what to do with them.

Read the book →

EpicArt book · 2024

In Plein Sight

A collection of Hong Kong paintings

72 pages of watercolor, gouache, and ink sketches from around Hong Kong. A love letter to the city, one street corner at a time.

See the paintings →

🍺 Tavern

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