[040]TrackClaude / ChatGPT plugin · AI media generationCredit top-upsData as of 2026-11-02

Build a vertical media-generation connector for Claude / ChatGPT, sell top-up credits, and get it into the directories

Doable, but only as a single-vertical media connector that can get into the Claude / ChatGPT directories. A generic "one credit pool for all models" has no room left.What's valuable is the directory placement and search traffic for "can Claude do X", not the wholesale price gap of about 2x. If you can't get into the directory by the end of December, stop investing.Breaking out · grade and headline derived from the full article · next review 12-01

Background	Claude is deliberately not generating images, only video. One person's CreativeClaw entered the Claude plugin directory in September, and that month's revenue was ×17.7
Upside	Add the missing piece to chat: image, video and voiceover generation, paid per use. Users don't compare prices, and the price is about 2× wholesale.
Demand	Stay in the conversation, don't subscribe for another month, get several variations from one sentence and pick your own. For stable connections, the finished product has to be solid.
Competition	The generic slot is taken by CreativeClaw, Kolbo, and the official MCPs from Runway, Higgsfield and HeyGen. Only 3 video-making apps are in the Claude directory
Revenue	CreativeClaw made $107,694 in 30 days (about nine-tenths from top-ups); Hypit's $47,729 is sliding; three wholesale APIs total about $190k, and they're in a price war.
Growth	Nobody is buying paid ads (no one in the Meta ad library is running them); rely on getting listed in directories plus 512 pages on "can Claude do X" SEO, or open source plus KOLs for stars
Window	Monthly view: directory slots go to whoever's first (inferred). Shuts down if Anthropic builds media generation itself or big players fill the directory
Who it's for	Solo or two-person teams who've built MCP / OAuth, can wire up wholesale APIs like fal, and know one type of asset buyer

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Who's building · 5 teams

CreativeClaw
What it does
Remote MCP connector + skills. In Claude, ChatGPT and Codex, one sentence calls 30+ image, video and audio models to produce multiple variants. $10 = 1,000 credits that never expire, plus $50 / $100 monthly plans. Launched 2026-04.
Who they are
Itay Dressler, Israel, solo. Co-founded theGist and led an engineering team at OpenWeb. 440 followers on X.
How it got traction
Listed in the Claude plugin directory since 2026-09 (per official site FAQ). Sitemap has 512 pages, 107 of them /claude/ and /chatgpt/ Q&A-style SEO pages. No ads visible in the Meta ad library.
Where it stands
TrustMRR: September $92,894, October $110,939. 30-day $107,694 (+11.6%), subscription MRR $12,290,233. Daily revenue in October stayed at $2.1k–5.1k without declining.
Hypit
What it does
An open-source video skill for Claude Code / Codex: clones a viral video's shots, subtitles and B-roll, and batch-produces variants. Cloud credits from $9.90 / 39.90 / 99.90 per month, or top-ups from $15. Released 2026-09.
Who they are
A Hong Kong company, publisher Alvin Chen. There's also an LLM gateway repo with Alipay top-ups, which suggests (inferred) a Chinese team. Users are mostly Chinese cross-border e-commerce sellers.
How it got traction
9-15 launch post with 1.14M views and "comment to get 100 digital humans". Multiple accounts recommended it from the same angle on the same day (suggests organized promotion, inferred). 27,313 GitHub stars. Not running ads on Meta, TikTok or Google.
Where it stands
TrustMRR: September $26,844, October $50,099. 30-day $47,729, MRR $16,246. After 10-26, average daily revenue was a third lower than the prior 10 days. Stars went from 7 to 2,135 in 1,740 days.
Kolbo.AI
What it does
A creator platform with 100+ models in one credit pool, including a video editor and an Adobe plugin. Also a remote MCP and 11 Claude Code skills. Lite from $27, credit packs from $15.
Who they are
Zohar Vanunu, Israel, previously a director, cinematographer and editor. Hebrew-first.
How it got traction
9 channels built up slowly: blog, SEO, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, affiliate commissions and more. MCP is the newly added door.
Where it stands
TrustMRR: 2025-12 $7,145 → 2026-10 $91,791, up 10 months in a row; 30 days $90,001 (+47.4%), MRR $38,864
APIPod
What it does
A wholesale media / LLM API for developers, 169 models, with official, discount and special-offer channel tiers. Pay-as-you-go, no subscription.
Who they are
Yangming, Chengdu, formerly a senior engineer at Xiaomi and author of Kubernetes tutorials
How it got traction
SEO + technical blog. No Meta ads visible.
Where it stands
TrustMRR: 30-day $52,734 (+130%), MRR 0. 10-30 announced that Seedance 2.0 Mini's price was raised from about 40% to about 60% of original due to cost increases.
GPTProto
What it does
Model API aggregator, pay per call, top-ups with bonus credits
Who they are
Talent Tech Global Limited, Hong Kong, founder not disclosed
How it got traction
No acquisition channel disclosed; the revenue shape is a few large clients making lump-sum top-ups
Where it stands
TrustMRR: $96,513 in 30 days, of which $73,471 (about 76%) came from 6 top-ups of roughly $10k each; MRR $9.9