Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code

Re:Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code by hkonsti on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:41PM (#40650603)

Yes, that's us! We started out in the open source LLM space, but realized that most companies didn't really have any real use cases for custom fine-tuned LLMs. Maybe we were too early, but everyone we talked to was best served by just using OpenAI. Late last year, we started looking at other areas and became fascinated with AI-generated social media content, which sent us down a rabbit hole that led us to build Revideo. It's been a very long and painful process, but we now have a lot of really cool and smart users building really useful stuff, which is something we haven't experienced with any of our previous pivots.

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Re:Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code by andrewstuart on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @04:12PM (#40650926)

This will come across as more negative than I would like, but I’d suggest caution on this pivot.

I suspect it might be a tarpit idea:

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Ij-avoid-these-tempting-...

For context, I’ve spent five years developing exactly this (amongst many other things). My system generates 3000 HD frames per second. But it’s hard to think of use cases that result in much of a business, which is why I’m not giving you a url because it’s hard to justify launching without solid revenue prospects.

Remotion is making money but it’s been a long road for them and it hasn’t led to explosive financial growth.

Happy to be proven wrong but I found it hard to make a list of potential customers will to spend real money on this.

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Re:Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code by justusm on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @04:27PM (#40651083)

no worries at all - I appreciate the feedback. Out of curiosity, what makes you think this is a tarpit idea? I roughly understand the term as "ideas that seem obvious and easy, but have non-obvious problems".

Ideally, we would like Revideo to be used to build any kind of web-based video editor. A lot of video editors exist, and many of them make a lot of money. Based on my experience, building a video editor from scratch is also really hard - I would think that people would choose a framework that makes it easy to build them if it exists.

My biggest worry is more about the technical difficulty of the problem (becoming the standard way to build a category of products is probably not easy), rather than this being an actual problem. I'd love to hear your opinion though!

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