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24 alternatives to We've built an Open Source plugin to make using AI easier for VFX
Hi, I’m Bryan Lyon, the CTO of DeepMake. We’re making plugins for VFX software suites (Right now we have a pre-release of our After Effects plugin ready) that enable you to use Open Source AI tools without leaving the workflow. It makes all the AI tools work just like another plugin in the VFX software. In the past, I worked on VFX adjacent AI and was more than once asked to make AI tools easier to use so the VFX experts could use them. In many cases my job was little more than making it easy to install and make sense to use. After writing dozens of “one-off” scripts that made an AI tool…
DeepMake provides open-source AI plugins for VFX software, starting with After Effects, that let visual effects artists use AI tools without leaving their workflow. The plugins integrate AI capabilities directly into… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. We've built an Open Source plugin to make using AI easier for VFX launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN community! I'm one of the lead devs of this project at fal.ai and we created an open source lightweight video editor powered by the latest media AI models. The main goal was to tackle some challenges when dealing with complex media handling and encoding on the browser. It all started as an internal experiment but as we tackled some of the issues it was clear there could be some value sharing it with the open source community. Some of the key points and tech stack details: - It uses IndexedDb, so all data is local (i.e. no auth, no cloud db) - Multiple AI models for video, image, music…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-V4▲387The open-source era of 1M context intelligence
Apr 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Skillkit▲252It's an open-source project that lets you create, translate, and work with multiple agents at the same time, and more.
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TensorZero▲307Hi HN! We're Gabriel & Viraj, and we're excited to open source TensorZero. To be a little cheeky, TensorZero is an open-source platform that helps LLM applications graduate from API wrappers into defensible AI products. 1. Integrate our model gateway 2. Send metrics or feedback 3. Unlock compounding improvements in quality, cost, and latency It enables a data & learning flywheel for LLMs by unifying: • Inference: one API for all LLMs, with <1ms P99 overhead • Observability: inference & feedback → your database • Optimization: better prompts, models, inference strategies • Experimentation:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DeepSwap▲79Best online face swap tool to make deepfake videos in a sec
2022 · deepswap.ai · its alternatives →
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VoltAgent▲162Hi HN, I'm founder of VoltAgent, a new open-source TypeScript-based framework for building AI agents. We know there are many frameworks out there. Our short story of why we built VoltAgent goes like this: We were developing an AI application ourselves. Initially, we tried existing frameworks. We also explored different flows using no-code tools. We noticed something interesting: the visual approach of tools like n8n made AI workflows much clearer and easier to understand. Building flows visually was neat and provided great visibility. However, we quickly ran into problems with no-code tools:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI Infra / AI Orchestration / AI Control Plane. Contribute to polyaxon/polyaxon development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Software for DL application development without coding.
2018 · ai-dlp.com · its alternatives →
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3D content creation tools anyone can use and master
2021 · deepfxworld.com · its alternatives →
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DeepAI▲132Easily build the power of AI into your applications
2017 · deepai.host · its alternatives →
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Make and check DeepFake videos and images fast and private. Simple uploads, cloud rendering, safety marks, and easy downloads.
Nov 2025 · deepfakefusion.com · its alternatives →
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Line0▲50Hey HN, I'm Ivan - Founder of Vratix. I left my job 7 months ago to build tools that make backend development easier. I started with an open source library of reusable Express.js API modules that got some traction. After talking to a lot of developers, one thing became clear - backend has been somewhat ignored by the recent wave of AI coding tools. That’s why I decided to create an AI pair programmer built and designed specifically for backend engineers. I spent the last 2 months building Line0 and today I am opening up the public beta to the world. With Line0 you can get a working backend…
2025 · line0.dev · its alternatives →
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MagicBrushAI▲95Figma plugin to generate and edit images using AI
2023 · magicbrushai.com · its alternatives →
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Using deep fake machine learning to create a video from an image and a source video.
2020 · myvoiceyourface.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We’ve been experimenting with integrating multimodal models directly into creative workflows, and ended up building an AI-first image editor using OpenAI’s new `gpt-image-1` (from GPT-4o) inside our SDK. Instead of prompting in ChatGPT and pasting outputs into a design tool, this lets you generate, edit, and remix images all in one canvas. This allows for really interesting new workflows, like quickly mixing multiple images, or creating visual prompts by using annotations and reference on the canvas. Some key details: - Built with our plugin system in CE.SDK (CreativeEditor SDK) -…
2025 · img.ly · its alternatives →
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