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Shortsmaker

Self-hosted AI that turns long videos into viral shorts

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Upload a podcast, interview or webinar and get 9:16 clips with animated captions, titles and hashtags. Self-hosted source code with users, plans, admin panel and white-label branding. One-command Docker install, your own Claude key.

PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views

Niche: ai short-form video generators · 265 launches, 32 in the last 7 days ▼ -14% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Content generation
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Social Media
  • Developer Tools
  • Video

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Could you build this?

Yes The pipeline (video upload, transcription, LLM-picked highlights, 9:16 cropping, captions) is composed from off-the-shelf tools like ffmpeg, Whisper or a transcription API, and Claude. The admin panel, plans and Docker packaging are routine CRUD and DevOps work.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 477 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #82 of 478 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Clipiro · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • SmartClips · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • OptimaClip · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • ShortsCutter · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • ClipItX · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • PodcastorAI · ph · 2026-07-23 · 320 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • PodReel · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • ViralCut · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52

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