We quit making music.
Then we built the reason to come back.
Our Story
Between 2018 and 2020, we were two beatmakers trying to make it on YouTube and BeatStars, uploading type beats and hoping one would land. Smofi had been at it for years and had actually gotten somewhere — a small but steady stream of sales, around $200 a month. CutOff had five years in, splitting nights between FL Studio and a screen full of code — close to 200 beats made, 115 of them put out chasing sales. The result? Just about zero.
The routine was brutal. One beat a day, every day, just to keep a shot at a single sale. Then an hour every morning before work: exporting the video, designing a thumbnail, writing a title, digging for tags, second-guessing the whole thing. And the worst part — never really knowing if we were even chasing the right niche. We were grinding hard and flying blind.
So we burned out. Not in some dramatic way. Just quietly, separately, one after the other. The uploads stopped. The day jobs took over. The music got put "on pause" — which, let's be honest, usually means done. Years of beats left sitting on a hard drive, unheard.
Early 2025, we got on a call just to catch up. Somewhere between the small talk we landed on the same thing: it was a shame we'd stopped. We were both itching to get back into it. But not like last time. Not torching our best hours on editing and SEO instead of actually making beats.
That's when the idea took shape — right there on the call, between the two of us. What if the boring half of the job, the videos, the tags, the niche guessing, just handled itself? We split the work the way it made sense: CutOff codes, so he built it; Smofi handles the marketing and getting it in front of other beatmakers. Neither of us had done anything quite like this before, and we learned a ton along the way. But once it actually worked for us, the question was obvious: why keep it to ourselves?
That's TypeFlick — automated YouTube videos and niche research for beatmakers, so your time goes into the beats, not the busywork.
The Founders
Smofi
Ten years in. Trap is the home base — 808s, hi-hat rolls, the Atlanta blueprint laid down by Southside, Metro Boomin, Honorable C.N.O.T.E. — with the occasional slow R&B cut when the night calls for it.
He was the one of us who actually made it work, kind of — around $200 a month, steady, for long enough to believe it could be the thing. But $200 doesn't pay for the hour you lose every morning to thumbnails and tags. He stepped away the same quiet way CutOff did. Different bedroom, same silence.
On TypeFlick he runs the marketing and gets the tool in front of other producers. He's also the ear of the duo — the one who tells CutOff when a feature is useless to a beatmaker, and when it's the one to ship.
CutOff
Beatmaker and the developer behind TypeFlick. He's been living and breathing hip-hop since he was 11.
He started producing around 2016, when his friends began rapping and he couldn't sit it out — a hardcore rap fan who had to be part of the movement. Mostly trap, shaped by the 808 Mafia / TM88 sound, Mike Dean, and producers like Turbo and Wheezy behind Gunna and Young Thug. Over those years he made close to 200 beats and put 115 of them out chasing sales — for just about nothing. He stepped away around 2021.
He's the one who built the tool you're using now. When he's not in FL Studio or the codebase, you'll probably find him in a League of Legends game.
Where We're At
We just launched. We're not going to hit you with inflated numbers or fake reviews — right now we're fixing bugs, tuning the engine, and listening to our first users. If you get in early, you're not just using TypeFlick, you're helping shape it.