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Swipe File: your niche's winners decoded

Enter a niche keyword or a competitor and Build: the winners are pulled, each hook transcribed, the top comments read, and everything decoded into a library of hook patterns, a problem bank in the audience's own words, and the sponsors funding the niche.

3 steps · about 1 min · screens captured 13 Oct 2026
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Build, then the Library

Niche keyword or @handle, Build swipe file: up to eight new winners per run, and the library accumulates. Each entry is a measured winner, here How Elon Works at 20.96 times its channel median, with the hook pattern and a fill-in-the-blank template. Steal the hook, not the content.

Build, then the Library
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Problem Bank

What audiences say in their exact words, from the comments under the winners, ranked by how often it comes up, each with its source. Make the video turns a problem straight into a brief.

Problem Bank
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Sponsors

The brands funding this niche, ranked by the smallest channel each sponsors: the lower that number, the more within reach. Every row links the video that proves it; mark a brand spotted, contacted or signed.

Sponsors
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Why it works this way

Every hook, problem and sponsor here links to the real video it came from, so you can check the claim; and the page says it plainly: study the pattern, then make it yours, never re-cut their footage.

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