FastUbu
An Ultrafast Video Archive
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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
HN · launched Jun 22, 2026 · 47 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: multimedia and records search engines · 74 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Data infrastructure
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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 : 256 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 257 (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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- framepack-U · github · 2026-10-12 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- golden-temple · github · 2026-10-15 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Filmimic · github · 2026-10-22 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- framefields · github · 2026-10-02 · 251 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- fluxo-de-edicao · github · 2026-11-02 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- The first short movie built using code and AI · hn · 2026-10-14 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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