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I launched an open-source toolkit for generating videos from JSON

Hey everyone,

I just launched VideoFlow, an open-source TypeScript toolkit for creating videos from code.

The simplest comparison is probably Remotion, but the core idea is different: instead of treating the video as a React component tree, VideoFlow treats the video as portabl

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    This is a sharp direction.

    Treating video as portable structured data instead of a component tree is a much more interesting angle than just “create videos from code.”

    One thing I’d watch is the name. VideoFlow explains the category, but it also sounds close to a lot of generic video workflow tools. The product itself feels more like a developer engine for programmable video generation.

    If this grows beyond an open-source toolkit into serious video infrastructure, a more ownable .com like Exirra.com would probably age better than staying inside the descriptive “video workflow” frame.

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    that's great toolkit, may be i will try it.

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        not now, may be later

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