mrborgen

Thanks. Definitely lots of work left to make this feel non-AI-slop.

Think there's a ton of potential here too. So we're staying on course.

Hahah! Thanks.

We've always gotten a ton of positive comments from people with ADHD who've used our HTML videos to learn to code. Despite it not being in our target group at all when we started out.

Hope your friend finds it helpful!

Thank you!

That was one of the challenges when building this. We ended up using Firecrawl. But even so there are a few pages we aren't able to read. In which case we use the Algolia API to get the HN comments and generate the video about the HN reaction on the article instead.

We currently spend ~$0.4 on a video (without images) and a have a few seconds of delay before playback. So it's a matter of turning every stone in order to optimize it further. We're going to add Jev asap, as it's an obvious improvement along both axes.

We usually include a section about the comments in the end of the video. But perhaps we should add a dedicated "Comments Video" as well.

Glad to hear that. Adding Jev as our "pre-planner" is very high on our todo list. It's the perfect tool for this kind of thing.

We do cache them like that! As I wrote:

"We create them on-the-fly the first time someone clicks on a link."

Though I realise it could have been said more explicitly. But the second time someone clicks the link we re-use the same explainer.

Btw, we are hiring a new developer to join us in Oslo, Norway. We pay well and give a lot of freedom wrt working from home or at the office (hybrid solution). If getting HTML-based video generation down to 1 cent for 1 minute with 1 second delay, then please email me: [email protected].

It doesn't actually capture it as a video, it's just HTML with a voice over essentially.

Nice! Will check out that repo.

You can use MCP to generate an Explainer video next time if you want. It's currently free, as the tokens for directing and scripting it is offloaded to your agent. And then we cover the TTS for the time being.

I hope so! We actually already support vertical videos when generated via the web ui (by clicking the mobile button).

We are not particularly pleased with the state of our visualizations, so I totally agree. If you have any examples of how you'd like to see the visualizations, please share them!

We have a free MCP so you are free too use our tool if you'd like to use it in your courses as well :)

Yes! We can set that up as a video quite easily. Don't have the infrastructure to push it as a podcast yet though.