Freelance developers: your client calls are your content
Dailies is a Chrome extension that records your video calls with clients and cuts captioned vertical shorts from them, ready to post. You know that a visible freelance developer gets to choose their projects, and you would far rather write code than film yourself talking about it. The good news: you already talk about it. On every call you explain a technical choice to someone who is not a developer, and that is exactly what a future client wants to hear.
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Which of a freelance developer’s calls make good shorts?
Your week is made of code and a few calls. Dailies reads each call from start to finish and keeps up to eight passages of 12 to 90 seconds that stand on their own: the ones where you translate the technical side for someone who has a decision to make.
Technical scoping
The client asks whether everything has to be rewritten. You explain what a rewrite costs and what is gained by fixing first. A trade-off every business owner will have to make one day.
The architecture review
You justify a simple choice over a fashionable one, in plain language. It is the proof that you think of the client’s project before you think of your CV.
The estimate
You say why your estimate is a range and what would move it. Few developers explain that; those who do reassure the client before the quote has even arrived.
The end-of-sprint demo
You say what was delivered and why it matters to the user. The short shows you explaining it, not your screen: what people see is how well you explain.
Why start from your calls rather than a video shoot?
On a call, you talk to a non-developer
A tutorial speaks to other developers, who will never hire you. On a call you talk to the person who signs: your explanations there are already pitched at your future clients.
Nothing to learn, nothing to edit
No editing software, no script, no microphone to buy. You hold your call; the shorts are ready a few minutes after you hang up, with silences, hesitations and false starts cut out.
Your code stays out of the shorts
A short shows whoever is speaking, never the shared screen. One switch blurs your clients and disguises their voice, and your recordings train no model.
What kind of shorts can a freelance developer post?
These are the kinds of titles a freelance developer’s shorts carry. None is a tutorial: they are answers to clients’ questions, the ones that come before a signature.
Rebuild or fix?
Why my quote is a range
Technical debt, without the jargon
The simple choice I stand by
Your MVP is too big
What I ask before I write code
How does Dailies work?
Record the call you were going to have anyway.
Open your call in Chrome and press record. Dailies captures the call, your microphone and your webcam.
It finds the moments worth posting.
Dailies reads the whole call and keeps up to eight passages that stand on their own. Silences, filler and false starts are cut out.
Reframed for a phone, on whoever is speaking.
Each short fills the vertical frame with your webcam, or with your guest when they speak. One switch blurs your guests.
Captioned in fifteen flavors.
Pick a look once and every short follows: font, colours, motion, even the backdrop behind you.
One call, up to eight shorts.
Watch them a few minutes after you hang up, download the ones you like in Full HD, and post them on LinkedIn, TikTok, Reels or Shorts.
What about the confidentiality of your calls?
What I say on a call belongs to my clients: can I make shorts from it?
What your client paid for is an answer to their own situation, and that is not what Dailies looks for. It rates every passage on what it reveals that is private or confidential, turns down those that reveal something and keeps the ones that make sense outside the call: a piece of advice, a method, an opinion. That is a model’s judgement, not a guarantee. So nothing is posted for you: you watch every short, and when one does not suit you, you say why and Dailies leaves that subject out of your next calls. Your contract with your client remains the rule.
Nobody must know I work with this client: what do the shorts show?
One switch blurs your guests and disguises their voice in all your shorts; on a new account, it is on from the start. A short mostly shows you, explaining. That leaves what is said: if a passage names your client or describes their company, the blur changes nothing. That is why Dailies turns down the passages that reveal something private, and why you have the last word: a short Dailies proposes is not a short that is posted.
Do my calls stay stored on a server?
Your calls do reach a server, since Dailies has to receive them to cut your shorts from them, but the original files do not stay there: the sound and picture of a processed call are deleted 10 days after processing, 15 days at the latest. What stays is what your shorts are made of, that is, the only pieces of video they use, and the call’s transcript, until you delete the call, which you can do at any time. You choose which calls you record, and your recordings train no model.
Frequently asked questions
What tool can a freelance developer use to make videos?
If you want neither to film nor to edit, start from your calls. Dailies is a Chrome extension that records the calls you hold on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom, spots the passages that stand on their own and makes up to eight captioned vertical shorts per call from them.
Does Dailies film my screen or my code?
Dailies records the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, but a short shows only whoever is speaking, reframed vertically. Your shared screen and your code do not appear in it: your explanations are what make the short.
Do I have to tell my client that the call is being recorded?
Yes: telling your client is up to you, before you begin. In the shorts Dailies cuts, one switch blurs your guests and disguises their voice, and you then decide what you download and post.
Are my recordings used to train an AI?
No. The recordings Dailies makes of your calls train no model, neither ours nor anyone else’s. They serve one purpose: making your shorts, which you download in Full HD to post yourself.
Which languages does Dailies handle?
Dailies handles calls in French and in English. Every short arrives captioned in one of fifteen styles; you pick yours once and for all.
Your next client call is already planned.
Add Dailies to Chrome, record it, and get back to your code. The shorts will be waiting for you a few minutes after you hang up.
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