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  • I don't really see why a new programming language is needed to make explainer pages (they are not actually videos).

    Seems like over engineering - why not just make JavaScript/HTML?

    by wewewedxfgdf
  • Btw, we are hiring a new developer to join us in Oslo, Norway. We pay well and give a lot of freedom wrt working from home or at the office (hybrid solution). If getting HTML-based video generation down to 1 cent for 1 minute with 1 second delay, then please email me: per@scrimba.com.
    by mrborgen
  • This looks a good idea to let people choose their preferred medium. I am not into video either, but I turned one of my latest blog article into a video using Claude, since I thought it would be “easy.” I asked it to build the video by screencasting a browser presenting the interactive diagrams of the article and add some titles. It build some kind of recording app for me. It still took me many hours, but I think I would be faster if I redid it. I would pay to have it done faster, but I want to keep control of the text, not have a summary.

    The article: https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree-video

    The tool built by Claude to make the video: https://github.com/vincentbernat/vincent.bernat.ch/tree/2808...

    by vbernat
  • This is super cool.

    Not affiliated but trymyrepo.com is very neat as well. Seems similar space.

    Also I had Muse agent create a skill that can do videos. Worked pretty well. Things are getting wild.

    Lastly, this might fun to those who like this space: (my thing)

    https://github.com/jgbrwn/mst3k-anything

    by indigodaddy
  • Please, nobody click on the link to this hn item within hn.watch as it would be even more dangerous than typing 'google' into Google
    by harvey9
  • This is actually quite impressive from an engineer viewpoint. I just have the feeling that the videos quickly become very monotonous and rather boring due to the monotonous AI voices. If somehow you could bring dynamic variation in these videos that would be fantastic.
    by dverlaeckt80
  • These AI explainers are taking over. I tried getting this working back in May. The models were okay but not quite there and it was a ton of effort. Opus 5.5 seems like the tipping point.

    I made an OSS framework for these for when you want to go beyond one-shoting it: https://github.com/scosman/videowright

    - Voiceovers: aligns animations to the voiceover, can generate voiceover with elevenlabs, or will transcribe and timestamp a real voiceover

    - can reorder scenes both in code, and using ffmpeg for audio.

    - interactive controls during authoring, can ask for micro edits or re-builds

    - MP4 export/encoder

    - Generates a video from a prompt (obvs)

    by scosman
  • Because we all contain multitudes, I can simultaneously accept that:

    1. I hate everything about this because I vastly prefer text over video for the same content, especially AI generated video

    2. There are a lot of people for whom video is their preferred medium and so this will be valuable to them.

    It's a technically cool project and your cost-per-video is impressively low. Best of luck!

    by fishtoaster

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