ClipMix exists for one reason: on April 17, 2026, YouTube retired the viewer-side Clips feature, and the workflow it supported — pick a moment in someone else's public video, set a precise duration, share a player URL — went with it. The platform pointed users at Share-at-Timestamp, which only sets a start time. The gap between "I want the 30 seconds at 14:22" and "here's a link to the whole 47-minute episode" is exactly the gap ClipMix fills.
What it does {#what-it-does}
You paste a YouTube URL. You mark in and out points on the moments that matter. You can chain multiple clips into a single sequence (Free tier: up to 3 clips on one video; Pro: unlimited clips, cross-video mixing on the same channel). You get back one share URL — clipmix.video/m/<slug> — that plays the curated mix in a clean viewer with smooth transitions between clips.
Every play streams directly from YouTube's IFrame Player. View counts, watch-time, and analytics credit go to the original creator the same as a normal YouTube embed. There's no re-upload, no re-encode, no re-host — circumventing the creator economy is the fastest way to get a tool like this killed, so the architecture is intentional.
The Free tier requires no account and uses hash-encoded share URLs. Pro ($29/year, or $49 launch-window lifetime) adds saved-mix history, custom short URLs, and the cross-video features.
Who built it {#who-built-it}
ClipMix is built and maintained by Nkemdilim Odili — solo, in the open, no VC. The codebase, design system, and product decisions all come from one person. That's a deliberate choice: small enough to move fast, opinionated enough to not need a committee, focused enough that "what does Nkemdilim think about X" has an actual answer.
Background: founder, singer, photographer, videographer — a multi-disciplinary creative who happens to also engineer software. Photography lives at pixeltalesbynk.com; broader portfolio at nkem.design. When YouTube killed Clips on April 17, 2026, the engineering side of that résumé came out: ClipMix shipped within a month, rather than waiting for someone else to build it back. The post-mortem on YouTube's decision lives in the blog; the deeper comparison against the deprecated Clips feature is at /alternatives/youtube-clips/.
Mission {#mission}
The platform that broke this is now pointing users at tools like ClipMix to fix it. That's the framing. Not "we're better than YouTube," not "disrupt video sharing" — just give people back the workflow that worked, on the same videos, at a single URL, for free, in the browser, with the original creators still getting credit.
Contact {#contact}
Email: [email protected].
That's the fastest way to reach me — bug reports, feature requests, partnership ideas, "your tool just helped me do X" notes, and "your tool just broke for me" notes all land in the same inbox and I read everything.
Elsewhere on the internet:
- LinkedIn — work history and longer-form notes.
- PixelTales by NK — photography portfolio.
- nkem.design — broader design and creative work.