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Video-to-Grid

Analyze videos with one Vision API call

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What if you could show an AI your entire video in one image?This turns a video into a 2D thumbnail grid—like a contact sheet. 48 frames, one image, full video context. Built on VAM Seek, a thumbnail grid I made for human video navigation. Turns out the same format works for AI too.Prototype. Feedback welcome.

HN · launched Jan 17, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 75%) · 0 views

Niche: video analytics and processing tools · 94 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +63% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Analytics & BI
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes Extracting frames at intervals using ffmpeg/canvas, stitching them into a contact sheet grid image, and sending that single image to a multimodal Vision API is a simple workflow easily coded with AI.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 569 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #551 of 570 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 24 days after the earliest competitor.

  • VAM Seek · hn · 2026-01-11 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • ThumbnailMaker · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Thumbnailer · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • video-to-texture · github · 2026-10-27 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Vhoo.ai · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • DeepFake AI Image to Video · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Video4 · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Lobby · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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