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How To Get Ahead Of 99% Of People (In 6-12 Months)
Dan Koe
3y · 1.7M views15×Top 1%
YouTube research and scripts.
Reverse-engineer any viral YouTube video.
Find a video that blew up. Ask why it worked. Make it yours.
- Find videos that beat their channel's normal
- Study any channel's biggest breakouts
- See why it worked: hook, beats, key lines
- Write your script in the same shape
- Get 30 titles from one idea
- Save any video with its transcript
1Find a video that blew up.
8:112Ask why it worked.
Breakdown · In your library
Breakdown: Dan Koe's "How To Get Ahead Of 99% Of People" (anti-vision video)
Hook
"here's how you get ahead of 99% of people in 6 to 12 months become brutally aware of two things"
Engine: Numbered promise plus fear-shaped specificity. A ratio ("99%"), a time frame ("6 to 12 months"), and a countdown ("two things").
3Make it yours.
How to Start Writing Online When You Have a Full-Time Job
10-minute YouTube script, built on the inversion ladder
HOOK (0:00-0:45)
Here's how you start writing online in 6 to 12 months when you already have a full-time job.
You have less time than everyone you're competing with. That's the whole problem.
So let me give you the only two things that need to be true.
01 · Find what's working
Stop guessing what to film. See what already blew up.
Ranked against its own channel. A video with 15× its channel's normal views beat the odds. That's the one worth studying, even on a small channel.
Long videos or Shorts. Format splits Videos (over about 3 minutes) from Shorts.
Set the bar. Show only 5×, 10×, or 20× breakouts, or a channel's top 1%.
Free to browse. Scroll Discover on the free plan. Search any topic on Starter.
In Eden
- 1In Discover, click the sliders icon in the search bar.
- 2Under Platforms, keep only YouTube. Set Format to Videos.
- 3Set Min outlier score to 10× or more.
02 · Study any channel
Study the channels you want to beat. Their biggest hits, ranked.
Paste a channel link. Search a name or paste a YouTube URL in Creators.
Sort by Top outlier. See which videos beat the channel's usual views, and by how much.
Borrow the frame, not the title. Ask chat to study a channel's top titles. You get title frames with blanks to fill, plus the words not to reuse.
Starter and up. Channel research comes with every paid plan.
In Eden
- 1Click the Creators tab and paste a channel link.
- 2Sort by Top outlier.
- 3In chat, ask: "study the top titles from @channel".
03 · See why it worked
Know exactly why it worked. Down to the first line.
Read in full. Reverse Engineer reads the whole transcript and quotes the exact lines that carry the video.
Beat by beat. It maps the structure and names each beat's job, like "make them picture what they don't want."
The one move it can't lose. Every breakdown ends with the load-bearing move: the part the video falls apart without.
Kept for later. The breakdown saves to your Library as a note. Add it to a board in one click.
In Eden
- 1Open any video in Discover.
- 2Click Boost.
- 3Pick Reverse Engineer. Or paste a YouTube link in chat and ask why it worked.
04 · Make it yours
Same skeleton. Your idea, your voice.
The pattern, minus the topic. Replicate lays out the beats with the original subject stripped out.
Tell it what you're making. Your topic, who it's for, and where it's going.
A full script back. Eden writes it beat by beat in the same shape, with a time for each beat. Ask for changes until it's ready.
Never their words. It borrows the structure only. Every line, example, and story is yours.
In Eden
- 1Open the video and click Boost.
- 2Pick Replicate.
- 3Send your topic, your audience, and the platform.
05 · Titles that get the click
30 titles from one idea. The best ones called out.
From an idea, a script, or a video. Paste whatever you have, or a link to a video you want to learn from.
Built on what's working. It reads title patterns that beat their channel's normal in your lane, then writes 20 from formulas and 10 freeform.
Test these first. Eden names the strongest few and how far the title it borrowed from beat its channel.
Or riff on a winner. On any long video, Headline Variations writes 10 takes on its title.
In Eden
- 1In chat, type /youtube and pick youtube-titles.
- 2Paste your idea, your script, or a video link.
- 3Send. You get 30 titles and the ones to test first.
06 · Write on a board
Your script, next to the videos it came from.
A board made for scripts. The Viral YouTube Videos template has three sections: My Business, YouTube Knowledge, and YouTube Examples.
Chat with the whole board. It goes title and thumbnail idea, then hook, then the full script, checking in after each.
A script template. The YouTube script document lays out the hook, the intro, three beats, and the outro.
Everything connected. Saved videos, breakdowns, and drafts sit side by side, so chat can read them together.
In Eden
- 1Right-click the sidebar, pick Board from template, then Viral YouTube Videos.
- 2Right-click the board, pick Document from template…, then YouTube script.
- 3Click Chat and ask for a script.
07 · Your swipe file
Save any video without leaving YouTube.
A Save button on YouTube. The Chrome extension adds one to watch pages, Shorts, and video cards. Pick the board as you save.
The transcript comes with it. Saved videos play in Eden with the transcript under them. Click a time to jump there.
Highlight what works. Press H to highlight a line. Highlights work on web, iPhone, and Android.
Or just paste the link. Paste a YouTube link on a board, or share it from your phone.
In Eden
- 1Add the Eden extension to Chrome.
- 2Click Save under any YouTube video.
- 3Pick a board.
08 · After you post
See how it did. Queue your Shorts.
Your own numbers. Connect YouTube and see how your videos did in Analytics, or ask chat.
Schedule Shorts. Queue YouTube Shorts up to 3 minutes long with the rest of your posts. Starter and up.
Long videos stay on YouTube. Eden schedules Shorts only. Upload long videos and Community posts on YouTube itself.
In Eden
- 1Go to Settings → Social accounts.
- 2Click Connect accounts.
- 3Sign in with the Google account that owns your channel.
09 · What it replaces
Research, script, and swipe file. One tab.
Most YouTube tools stop at the research. Then the script goes somewhere else, and the videos you saved go somewhere else again. Here's what each piece costs on its own.
Eden Starter
Search, channel research, breakdowns, scripts, titles, boards, a swipe file, and Shorts scheduling. Browsing Discover is free.
$29/mo
1of10 Pro
Outlier videos, titles, and thumbnails, for YouTube only.
$89/mo
ViewStats Pro
Outliers, thumbnails, and alerts, for YouTube only.
$49.99/mo
Sandcastles Pro
Video research and scripts, with 100 credits a month.
$49/mo
Notion Plus
A place to keep your scripts and notes. No research.
$10/mo
Monthly prices, checked September and October 2026. These tools do things Eden doesn't, like 1of10's thumbnail tools, so compare the work you need done. Side by side: Eden vs 1of10, Eden vs ViewStats, Eden vs Sandcastles.
Questions, answered
What YouTubers ask first.
Does Eden copy other people's videos?
No. It borrows the structure: the order of the beats and the job each one does. Your topic, your words, your examples, and your stories stay your own. Replicate and the youtube-titles skill keep the shape and leave the source's lines, numbers, and claims behind.
Will this make my video go viral?
Nothing can promise views. Eden shows you the shape of what worked for videos that beat their own channel's normal, so you start from a structure with a track record instead of a blank page. The idea and the delivery are still yours.
Can Eden upload my long videos?
No. Eden schedules YouTube Shorts only: one vertical video up to 3 minutes, on Starter and up. Upload long videos and Community posts on YouTube itself.
Does it work on the free plan?
Yes, to start. On Free you can browse Discover, open any video and its transcript, and run Reverse Engineer and Replicate with your starter AI credits. Searching by topic and studying a channel in Creators start on Starter at $29 a month.
What does Eden need from a video?
Its transcript. Eden reads the full transcript before it breaks a video down. If a video has no transcript Eden can pull, paste it into chat and Eden works from that.
Can I study a channel Eden hasn't seen yet?
Yes. Paste the channel's link in Creators. The first time, Eden pulls its videos, which can take a minute, and then ranks them against the channel's own normal views.
Does Eden make thumbnails?
No. It doesn't design images. When you chat with a board made from the Viral YouTube Videos template, Eden suggests a title and a thumbnail idea before it writes the hook.
Is it only for YouTube?
No. Discover also covers X, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads, and Substack, and Reverse Engineer and Replicate work on posts there too. On YouTube Shorts, the Boost menu adds Expand to Longform.
Want just the words? Try the free YouTube transcript generator. More on Discover and Creator Research.
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