Floodcraft – Short videos on any topic in 30 seconds
Hey HN, Floodcraft gives you a short AI-generated video slide show on any topic in about 30 seconds. It mimics the style and format of an Instagram Reel/ YouTube Shorts. Here's a launch video for Floodcraft that I generated using Floodcraft! - https://www.floodcraft.com/videos/Y_rOqAMpy22t7bXx3AyiJ The home page has a few more sample videos [1]. Since the images are generated, it works best for non-realtime topics like history, literature, arts etc; basically anything that wouldn't need to reference specific or latest images. Will incorporate real images soon. I'm a…
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Hey HN, Floodcraft gives you a short AI-generated video slide show on any topic in about 30 seconds. It mimics the style and format of an Instagram Reel/ YouTube Shorts. Here's a launch video for Floodcraft that I generated using Floodcraft! - https://www.floodcraft.com/videos/Y_rOqAMpy22t7bXx3AyiJ The home page has a few more sample videos [1]. Since the images are generated, it works best for non-realtime topics like history, literature, arts etc; basically anything that wouldn't need to reference specific or latest images. Will incorporate real images soon. I'm a visual learner and have spent hours watching YouTube Shorts (especially from the Epic History channel) so built Floodcraft to get similar videos in realtime for any topic that I wanted. I've always been interested in knowledge ingestion and improving the way people learn. Previously, I built Smort.io [2] to let people easily edit, annotate, and share articles & ArXiv papers. Just prepend smort.io/ before any article url read in Smort. The Show HN post [3], got on the front page of HN and more than 50,000 people from 132 countries have used Smort so far. [1] https://floodcraft.com [2] https://smort.io [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30673502
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