Love this one as well. It's a painting of Trithemius, a German monk, who actually said that

Although I assume he didn't say it in British English ;-)

No, probably not haha ;-)

FYI dang they kinda ripped off our product down to copying the UI (Hedra.com). Our model is about 12x faster and supports 4 minute long videos…

Fwiw, you’ve got one video on your homepage and everything else is locked behind a signup button.

I know that signup requirement is an article of faith amongst some startup types, but it’s not a surprise to me shareable examples lead to sharing.

We have a sign-up because we ensure users accept our terms of service and acceptable use policy before creating their first video, which affirms they understand how their data is used (legally required in most US states) and will not use our technology to cause harm.

You can have that without a sign up.

>legally required in most US states

Funny how other sites can do this with a birthday dropdown, an IP address, and a checkbox.

>We have a sign-up because we ensure users accept our terms of service and acceptable use policy before creating their first video

So your company would have no problem going on record saying that they will never email you for any reason, including marketing, and your email will never be shared or sold even in the event of a merger or acquisition? Because this is the problem people have with sign-up ... and the main reason most start-ups want it.

I am not necessarily for or against required sign-ups, but I do understand people that are adamantly against them.

99% of visitors will just hit the back button.

Do you realize that this or similar technology will eventually end in every computer really soon? By building walls, you're essentially asking your potential users to go elsewhere. You should be as open as possible now that there is still room and time for competition.

Why did you make a brand new account to comment this?

I welcome competition, but they have made disingenuous claims about being first after having chatted with our team (in person), are using celebrity deepfakes for their advertising, and have 1-1 copied our UI down to the three panel mobile layout and autocrop button.

To be fair your UI looks much better and the layout of both these sites is so basic (not a bad thing), it should be the last thing to worry about. Better product will win so focus on that, because except for ones ego, no one else cares who's "first".

You've expressed this concern, and your comment has been upvoted. The brigade of newly registered users echoing these talking points on this topic is not necessary and undermines your point.

I understand your implication, however I’m not behind any brigading.

This is such a lame comment. It reflects very badly on you company.

Especially considering how many people are attempting something similar - for example everyone copied ChatGPT's UI.

Will be funny/ironic when the first AI companies start suing each other for copyright infringement.

Personally for me the "3 column" UI isn't that good anyway, I would have gone with an "MMO Character Creation" type UX for this.

Interesting! Are you saying you would first want tools to really design your character, and only after start making videos with the character you built? That's interesting.

This thread has opened my eyes to how many similar products exist; beyond your companies' and OP's. Was yours the first? Could the other companies make the same claim about yours? Do you make the same claim about the others?