A Pipeline for Making 10-minute AI Movies with Claude Code and Seedance
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I've been working on this Claude Code pipeline for making 10-minute movies, gluing together Seedance (videogen), Nano Banana (image gen), and ElevenLabs (voice gen), and using Claude as the director. My repo contributes a markdown playbook and a worked example which should make it easier for other people to make their own short movies. A first-pass movie takes around 2.5 hours of wall clock time and costs around $200, and iterating is easy thanks to intermediate artifacts like storyboards and voice samples.
HN · launched Jul 20, 2026 · 21 upvotes (top 27%) · 0 views
Niche: ai video generation tools · 760 launches, 45 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The project is a scripted pipeline/playbook that orchestrates external generation APIs (Seedance, Nano Banana, ElevenLabs, Claude) into video sequences, which is ideal for vibe coding.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: LLM costs will increase significantly once subsidies end, Pricing sustainability at scale with current model
Feature requests: Cost breakdown and transparency for different model tiers, Ability to use cheaper models for secondary tasks/revisions
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 601 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #206 of 602 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 231 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Seedance TV Video Agent · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- TensorPix · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- CineGen · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- video-director · github · 2026-11-06 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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