OpenCardboard
OpenCardboard — local-first chat-to-edit AI video editor. Your footage never leaves your machine.
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Details
- External ID
- 1404192386
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenCardboard
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 56
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7523584905660378
- Tags
- ai, electron, local-first, mcp, video-editor
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- ai video editing and agent tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local chat-driven ai video editor for creators
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and LLM command translation are vibe-codeable, but building a robust local-first non-linear video editing engine that operates smoothly on local media requires specialized video pipeline engineering.
What it would actually take: A real version requires an Electron/Tauri desktop wrapper or WebAssembly-based stack integrating FFmpeg, WebCodecs, and custom timeline state management. The hard parts are real-time video frame scrubbing, deterministic timeline rendering, audio waveform generation, and mapping high-level user text intents into complex FFmpeg filtergraphs or timeline cuts locally without lag.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 46 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 47 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 337 days after the earliest competitor.
- open-edits · github · 2026-10-02 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Cardboard · ph · 2026-03-11 · 516 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- OpenScene: AI video studio · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Transcriptcut · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ChatCut · ph · 2026-07-10 · 441 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Cardboard - Agentic Video Editor · yc · 2026-02-03 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- OpenEdit · hn · 2026-08-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- WeftCut · ph · 2026-10-02 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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