InstantVideos.org
short documentaries in ~30 seconds
Details
- External ID
- 48812045
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- InstantVideos.org
- Website domain
- instantvideos.org
- Launched
- July 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 26
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7652329749103942
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hiya! So I've been playing around with having Claude make videos for a bit now even had some success posting the results to TikTok (and setup a whole pipeline so Claude can generate and post autonomously). With the release of Nano Banana 2 Lite, I was curious show fast I could make the generation, so last night I gave it a whirl and got down to around 30s for short-form video.It uses GLM-5.2 fast via Fireworks to generate the scripts and image prompts and, like I said, Nano Banana 2 Lite for the images, gpt-4o-mini-tts for the narration, and ffmpeg to string it all together and add the Ken Burns zoom effect (which still has a shake I haven't been able to get rid of). The video compilation proved to be the blocker once the rest was in place, but I was able to speed that up by putting it on a 64 vCPU EC2.The cost might be the most interesting aspect as the short form videos tend to be about 25 cents. Almost 90% of that is the images, which are 3.336 cents a piece. Of course, running the big 64 core EC2 to allow for the creation isn't cheap.It seems like on-demand AI video is coming, and I thought this was an interesting demo of how close it might be in at least one narrow video domain.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai video creation and repurposing
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- short documentaries
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The product is a wrapper that orchestrates LLM script generation, text-to-speech, and image/video APIs into a composite video output.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Gemini Omni for video generation
Concerns raised: Rate limiting issues, High cost per second of video with alternatives, Infrastructure reliability and uptime problems, Generation speed slower than promised (10 minutes vs under 1 minute), Timing misalignment between scene cuts and narration
Feature requests: Publish source code or instructions, Share link to check progress after closing tab, Pre-generated examples, Client-side video compilation using JS ffmpeg WASM, Move from narrated slideshow to full video clip format
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 219 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #45 of 220 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 250 days after the earliest competitor.
- A Pipeline for Making 10-minute AI Movies with Claude Code and Seedance · hn · 2026-07-20 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Make AI motion videos with text · hn · 2026-02-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Nano Banana 2 Lite Tools · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- A short walking sim based on 3DGS that runs in the browser · hn · 2026-07-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DocBrief · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Banana Prompts · hn · 2025-12-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I built a tool that creates videos out of React code · hn · 2025-12-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- AI video generator that outputs React instead of video files · hn · 2026-01-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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