Lucent Chat
Create videos and images with Veo, Sora, etc. in one chat
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Hey HN,We built Lucent Chat because creating with AI has become a mess. You'd ask ChatGPT for a prompt, copy it into another tool, tweak settings, open three tabs, run into token limits, and lose your style halfway through. Iteration was slow, context vanished, and the process killed the creative flow.Lucent Chat is our attempt to fix that - a single chat where you can generate, refine, and manage all your visuals and videos across Veo, Sora, Kling, Seedream, Nano Banana, and more. You describe what you want and Lucent handles the rest. It will find the right model, optimise your prompt + parameters behind the scenes.Once you do generate something, it's dead simple to keep on going and iterate off it with remixing. You can also get inspiration from what others are creating.We started this out of frustration with how fragmented creative AI had become, and now we're releasing it to the world.We're giving out free credits (40 images or 4 videos with Sora 2) to early adopters from HN!You can try it here: https://lucentchat.com?utm_source=hnFeedback is hugely appreciated.
HN · launched Oct 29, 2025 · 10 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: ai video generation tools · 760 launches, 45 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a unified multi-modal chat UI that routes prompts to standard third-party image and video generation APIs (Veo, Sora, Midjourney, etc.).
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Unclear billing model - whether users need individual API keys or if billing is centralized
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 398 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #128 of 399 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
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