FastUbu
An Ultrafast Video Archive
Details
- External ID
- 48631681
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- FastUbu
- Website domain
- fastubu.com
- Launched
- June 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 47
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8394808743169399
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Ubu is a 30 year old archive of strange films you'd usually only see in museums. I felt it was a perfect candidate for modern Midjourney-like performance.Really enjoyed using Cheng Lou's pretext and masonry pattern. AI indexing, transcription, and video processing via my startup Kino's API
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai video generation and editing tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- fast video archive storage
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes FastUbu is a modern web archive frontend wrapping a database of digitized films, transcriptions, and video streaming endpoints using pre-existing media processing APIs.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Slow performance on older hardware (i7-8550u), Excessive file sizes (50MB for single page), Large animation assets (60kb each in avif)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 75 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 76 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 229 days after the earliest competitor.
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- awesome-claude-video · github · 2026-09-25 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Fossilware · hn · 2026-03-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- xianyu-guanjia · github · 2026-09-16 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- movie-bento · github · 2026-09-09 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- VideoPhysEdit · github · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- I compressed videos by upto 78x while preserving faces,text and details · hn · 2026-08-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.