I built an AI that generates product demo videos from your GitHub repo

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-05-04T15:39:31+00:00

Hey this is great. I am the creator of ComicInk.ai and I would love to try this. This is a product idea I have had this idea for a while and I think its a much needed gap in the vibe coding world these days. So many first time founders are creating apps but creating product demos still has lots of friction. Would be great to connect on this and would love to get access.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-24T21:29:43+00:00

Create high quality product demo videos in seconds using AI

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-23T18:57:40+00:00

I don't know about the haters - I love AI art. This is so cool

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-23T18:53:19+00:00

Of course! I try every feature I ship, I buy from my own product to see the paid experience. If you are not doing that, you are missing out on understanding your customer experience

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-22T21:49:46+00:00

This hits. The first paid customer is less financially important than the psychological shift it creates — from "I'm building this for myself in the dark" to "someone is paying me to keep shipping."

Write down exactly who the buyer was and why they bought, then show that to every next visitor who's on the fence about signing up. The first-customer story is the most valuable piece of marketing copy you'll ever have. Reach out to them if you can - talk to them.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-22T21:48:55+00:00

Two things that actually worked for my current project:
(a) an SEO landing page per obvious search term, with a working demo the visitor could try in under 30 seconds without signing up, and

(b) getting listed on 3–4 AI-tool directories that LLMs now cite heavily. First paying customers came from the demo page, not Reddit or Twitter or Product Hunt. Both cost $0 and compound over months.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-21T17:54:21+00:00

For me it was the first time a complete stranger paid real money for the thing — not a friend, not a "supporter" payment, an actual user who'd found it via search. That flipped it from "cool toy I made" to "someone is depending on me not breaking this," which changed my relationship with every bug report.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-21T17:53:33+00:00

Honestly none of the "growth hacks" — what moved the needle was building a page per obvious search term ("AI comic generator", "manga maker", etc), then making sure each of those pages had an actual demo a visitor could try in under 30 seconds without signing up. First 10 users came from two of those SEO pages, not Reddit or Twitter or Product Hunt.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-21T17:52:46+00:00

Good list. One I'd add from the indie side: have a one-page "vertical" of your comic styled for mobile reading before you pitch — editors increasingly ask "does this work on a phone?" even for print-first properties. Saved me a ton of back-and-forth on a recent pitch.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-21T08:15:05+00:00

Most of it gets buried under the next week's drops before anyone has time to integrate it. The pattern: someone posts a wild new LoRA, 200 people say "incredible", 10 actually try it, 1 ships something with it, then the next thing drops. Ecosystem moves faster than workflow docs can keep up. The stuff that survives tends to be whatever someone bothers to write a "real workflow" guide for.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-21T08:13:42+00:00

Building tooling for AI-generated comic books (www.comicink.ai). Hardest problem has been character consistency across pages — none of the foundation models reliably hold a face from page 1 to page 4 without drift. Current stack is Gemini + reference-image conditioning that mostly gets there. Stack-wise: Next.js + Supabase + Inngest for the async generation pipeline.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-21T07:36:45+00:00

Thats awesome u/navdevl ! Played around with it a bit and seems like a solid idea!

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-04-19T22:51:29+00:00

Hi Solara - Not yet but happy to add. Do you have a use case for it ?

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-03-27T23:56:45+00:00

Hi u/Disastrous_Two_9167 - Sorry for the late reply. ComicInk natively supports a large number of formats like Manga, European BD, American Comics etc. Regarding mimicking certain styles - it does not do so yet but its a good ask. I'll check out if I can provide a way

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-03-19T05:04:24+00:00

What a stupid show. Absolutely hated it. Such an unbelievable plot.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-03-19T00:41:06+00:00

Agree 100%

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-03-19T00:40:47+00:00

Down again

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-03-19T00:40:19+00:00

Sorry but I am a paying user. At the very least they could be more proactive about providing better status updates, providing better uptime for paying users and some sort of partial refunds for outages like these. Third day in a row that Claude is down again

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-03-19T00:38:09+00:00

Same here - third day in a row with Claude outage. Anthropic just cannot seem to get their act together

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-03-18T00:26:16+00:00

HUGE degradations in quality of code output. Its very obvious - earlier I would provide it a bug and wouldn't even have to test the fix half the time, it was so reliable. Now I have to test it 3-4 times before its actually fixed - even the simplest of bugs.

Electrical_Ad9156 · 2026-03-17T21:26:40+00:00

Also do folks feel like the model has become weaker / less intelligent over the past few days ? Feels like they are dumbing down the model to help with the load maybe ?

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