mutonby/shortcast
Native macOS app: drop a long video → auto-cut viral shorts, captioned for TikTok/Reels/YouTube, reframed to vertical, and scheduled. 100% on-device (Gemma 4 12B + WhisperKit + MLX).
Health Breakdown
Should you contribute to mutonby/shortcast?
mutonby/shortcast has a FoundDev health score of 84/100, which puts it in the active-and-maintained tier. The maintainer team is shipping recently, issues are being closed, and a PR you open this week has a realistic chance of being reviewed.
Last push was 0 days ago — that signals an actively maintained project. New issues are likely to get a maintainer response within days. The project is written primarily in Swift, so prior Swift experience will shorten ramp-up.
Licensed under Apache-2.0, a standard OSI-approved license — safe to contribute to under normal employer IP policies.
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