Most video SaaS platforms charge heavy recurring subscriptions for artificial credit systems that limit your rendering time, when behind the scenes it's largely chained API calls and local rendering. I built Shorts Factory Engine as a self-hosted alternative. You run it on your own server or local machine via Docker, keep your data private, and connect your own Google Cloud API keys (paying pennies per generation directly to GCP). Architecture breakdown (48s demo attached): Async Gateway (n8n): Handles webhook ingestion and immediately dispatches jobs into a local Redis queue (   submitted by