Who I am, why I build this, and how it got here.
VSVX comes from Vesuvio. I'm originally from a town near Naples, and the city of Naples is very close to my heart, so I wanted the name to carry a little bit of home. To be honest, the idea for the name also came partly from an AI.
I've been editing since 2020. I started on CapCut, then moved to After Effects, and I began by making Napoli edits. After a while I switched to another account, which grew to almost 70,000 followers. Then school took over and I let it rest for a bit.
A few months ago I came back to Napoli edits, and I met a lot of new people. I talk to them every day now. They're real friends. And that's where it all started: one Friday evening the idea came to me, and I thought this could really be something for the edit world.
I didn't know other panels were already out there. But I thought, why not? In the first week I had already built a first example. I called it AE Shortcuts, but I didn't like it. It was too simple and it had no identity.
I kept working on it, and it became VSVX Softkeys, the panel that's online now. I work on it every evening, at least two or three hours, and on Saturdays and Sundays it's almost all I do. That's why this project means so much to me.
In the first weeks I couldn't find anyone to try my panel. I posted on my edit account, vsvx.aep, and tried to bring people over from there, but nothing happened. TikTok kept it stuck at 400 to 500 views.
So I made another account, vsvx.softkeys. It's still the main account for the project. I started with photos to explain why I built it. Then I posted six tutorials in a row, a new one every two minutes. That didn't work either, so I deleted them.
Then I made a video I thought could work. As I write this, on 8 October 2026 at 12:48, it has reached 40,000 views. After that video took off, all the other numbers took off too, like the people using the panel. More posts followed, like the edit with the panel hidden inside it, or the one about what you need for After Effects.
Bit by bit we built a pillar, something that four weeks ago looked impossible. That's the story of VSVX Softkeys so far.
I hope that I, and the whole team, can keep going like this. Thank you so much for everything.