Vibecoding For Video — After 13 Months And 3 Pivots 🚀

TL/DR: vanillasky.ai is like Lovable, but for short-form video. Prompt, get a short video, chat to refine it. I also created this demo to explain.

When I last posted, I was testing real estate Zillow-to-video. Before that, AI ad videos for small businesses. Before that, meme videos. I tried hard to make each one differentiated but the AI of the time wasn't far enough along. Whatever angle I picked, the big players like Canva were able to do it already or three other tools were doing roughly the same thing within weeks.

🛠️ What changed
A few months ago I started playing with the Remotion Claude skill, a public skill that lets you describe a video in Claude Code and Claude writes the React/Remotion code to produce it. It's been a hit; thousands of people have used it for explainer videos, code walkthroughs, kinetic typography demos, social clips. Watching a chat compose a video this way was the moment I realized the AI had caught up. What I thought would be impossible to build for years was suddenly possible.

But the more I used the Remotion skill, the clearer the gaps got:

• No connectors. You need to search and download all the stock video and music yourself.
• You need to be able to understand exactly how to prompt Claude to get professional video
• Missing video best practices. No motion library, inconsistent effects, too much text on screen.
• Slow to iterate. Small changes take a lot of prompts and waiting to get it perfect.
• Too technical. You need to know React and Remotion to fix what comes out. Most people who want a launch video aren't devs.

That's when I knew what to build.

🚀 What I built

VanillaSky is vibecoding for short-form video, the end-to-end product version of that loop:

• Paste a URL (your product, your launch, your post). VanillaSky fetches the context, drafts a script, picks scenes, prefills your brand kit.
• Get a video in ~60 seconds, then iterate by chatting: "swap that scene", "new music", "shorter", "add a closer". The chat picks new templates, edits copy, swaps stock footage, changes the soundtrack, whatever you ask.
• The best practices the Remotion skill was missing are baked in: opinionated motion library, considered transitions, copy that actually fits and work.
• You export right in the browser.

Try it. No signup. Make a video about whatever you shipped this week, tell me what broke or felt off: vanillasky.ai

Thanks for sticking with me through the pivots 🙏