Yemi Oyepeju

Yemi Oyepeju

Founder @Wiz.link, UX Pro, 2x US Patents
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Interesting! As a founder and Product Design lead, I shall take further look.
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Know any YouTubers? Share this free monetization quiz with them 🎯

A lot of YouTube creators — especially small to mid-tier channels — are sitting on real monetization potential but don’t have a clear path beyond AdSense. We recently built a quick yes/no quiz that helps YouTubers instantly assess how “sponsorship-ready” their channel is across six key categories: Audience engagement Content quality Monetization strategy Social presence Brand-fit signals...

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For us, it’s leaning into discussion topics creators and brands already care about. Since we’re solving monetization friction for YouTubers and giving brands better access, we jump into convos around influencer ROI, AdSense frustration, and brand discovery—without overt self-promo.
Hugh Tan
How do you make people aware of your presence on Product Hunt?
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We recently came across a model where creative sellers list sponsorship slots and buyers compete via auction — it flips the typical outreach dynamic. Made us rethink how we approach value exchange in influencer marketplaces entirely. (Full disclosure: we’re building in this space too for brands and YouTube creators.)
Dustin Heaps
What’s the last product that genuinely made you go: 'Whoa — this is smart'?
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Personally, I think Kickstarter and Indiegogo suit physical product launch more while PH suits digital product launch. We’re launching soon on PH but considered other platforms. What drew us to PH was the active founder-creator overlap — ideal for our early user base. Our product connects YouTubers with brands in a bid-based sponsorship format, and PH offers one side of that audience...
Nika
Do you launch on other platforms too? For example, Kickstarter or IndieGogo
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For us, it’s not just traffic — it’s early market signal. We’re gearing up to launch a new way for YouTubers to monetize and brands to sponsor directly via auctions, and PH is one of the few spaces where both sides of that market actually hang out and engage authentically.
Aleksandar Blazhev
What’s the biggest value of launching on Product Hunt?
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We made progress when we stopped building in isolation and started launching beta experiences with creators — even before full feature parity. Their feedback while listing auctions for brand deals shaped what mattered most. Now we ship faster with better alignment to market need.
Aleksandar Blazhev
What’s the most effective way to make real progress on your product?
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We’ve seen the best traction from Instagram and YouTube — especially when speaking directly to creators and brands. It’s been game-changing to build awareness in conversations around monetization and creator-brand partnerships (which our platform is structured to facilitate).
Manuel Zarroca
What social channels do you run your company on?
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Why Do Creator-Brand Deals Still Feel Like the Wild West?

As founders, we’ve streamlined so many industries — payments, logistics, customer support — yet influencer partnerships still feel stuck in chaos. Finding the right YouTuber for a brand collab often means weeks of cold DMs, ghosting, vague pricing, and deals that collapse mid-way. Even when creators are eager to work with brands, the process is scattered and painfully manual. Meanwhile,...

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For me, it’s that pain is the market. I’m working on a product for influencer marketing, and early on, I realized how painful endless cold outreach and negotiation is for both brands and creators. Validating that pain led us to explore an auction-style platform for video sponsorships, which seemed to resonate right away.
Andrei Tudor
What’s one thing you wish someone had told you before validating your first idea?
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Super interesting question. We’re in the creator space, and donations have definitely been a lifeline for some channels—especially now with recent monetization crackdowns on certain types of YouTube content. That’s partly why we’re building a way for creators to monetize through direct brand deals, and even receive donations from supporters instead of relying solely on platform ad revenue.
Manuel Zarroca
Have you ever ran a business on donations?
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Biggest advice: pick platforms that showcase you and your work, not just your audience size. For creators, brand partnerships are a great way to build a personal brand and monetize. We’re exploring a model where creators auction off ad slots to brands—which can really help smaller voices stand out and own their worth.
Nika
What piece of advice would you give to someone who wants to start building a personal brand?
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Great question. I’d say influencer marketing is risky yet flourishing at the same time. So many pain points still exist—ghosting, hidden pricing, and slow negotiations. That’s why we’re working on an auction-based model for sponsorships, hoping to reduce some of those risks for both brands and creators.
Nika
which industry do you think is the riskiest to start a business, and which is flourishing?
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Love seeing the tools people swear by. For me, anything that eliminates endless back-and-forth emails is gold. I’m building a product in the creator economy space, and we’ve found that letting brands bid for YouTube ad slots instead of negotiating in DMs with the creators can save weeks of time on both sides.
Anirudh Kumar
What’s the one tool in your tech stack that saves you hours every week?
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Why Are Influencer Deals Still Stuck in DMs and Ghosting in 2025?

As founders, we automate ads, analytics, and customer support… yet influencer marketing still feels like sending carrier pigeons. You reach out to a creator. They might reply… or vanish for weeks. Negotiations happen in messy email threads, rates are all over the place, and deals fall apart because there’s no structure or urgency. It blows my mind that in 2025, we’re still dealing with...

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Congrats on the launch, Brandon and team! Cool product, will check it out. I actually have influencer outreach through cold DMs planned as part of our GTM campaign so this comes at a right time.
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Exploring new ways for brands to quickly partner with YouTube creators

Let’s be real, brand partnerships with YouTubers shouldn’t feel like chasing ghosts. You send DMs, wait days, negotiate rates in the dark… and half the time, the deal falls through. That’s why we’re launching BidVid — a platform where you can bid in real time for ad slots in upcoming YouTube videos. No endless back-and-forth. No mystery pricing. Just fast, transparent deals where you see...

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Thought I should resurface this here. We are doing a soft (phased) launch and we've launched beta at https://beta.bidvid.io to sign up and create a profile as creator or brand, then prepare your campaign brief/s in advance (as brand) or schedule your video ad slot auctions to go live on launch date or beyond. Feel free to check it out and don't hesitate to share your first impressions here. Thanks
Yemi Oyepeju
How do you find YouTube creators fast without endless cold DMs and ghosting?
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Cool product but the pricing is insane. Why do people build with western audience only in mind, even makers from Africa and Asia with local markets that would frown at the pricing? Here's a clue, Clueso, at least make a lower tier available in your pricing model for smaller teams and startups. I'm UK based but I definitely know your lowest paid plan - $150/month is not it.
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How do you find YouTube creators fast without endless cold DMs and ghosting?

As a founder, I’ve wasted weeks trying to connect with YouTubers for sponsored content — cold emails, DMs, and awkward negotiations that go nowhere. Have any of you found a faster, more transparent way to secure YouTube ad deals? We’re actually launching something soon that flips this dynamic — letting brands bid for ad slots creators list in advance. Instant deals, no ghosting. Curious if this...