A team made our launch video with Claude Code (and open-sourced the tool)
. A team made our launch video with Claude Code (and open-sourced the tool) Why it matters for engineering teams What shipped and who is affected.
By Dillip Chowdary • Sep 28, 2026 • Source: HN Claude/Codex/Fable
What shipped in A team made our launch video with Claude Code
HN Claude/Codex/Fable reports: We made our launch video with Claude Code (and open-sourced the tool). Article URL: https://kiln.tech/blog/we_made_our_launch_video_in_claude_code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869834 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Along the way we built and open-sourced the tool we wished we'd had: videowright. Animated SVG, Lottie, React, Svelte, anything that renders in a browser.
What improved in A team made our launch video with Claude Code
Speech-to-text gets word-level timestamps; the agent fits video beats to them. I wrote the script, Claude wrote the animations, we iterated in chat, we previewed in a browser.
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What you gain from A team made our launch video with Claude Code
Screen-captured the dev server at 60fps, added a voice-over in post, shipped. See the full write-up from HN Claude/Codex/Fable via the source link for quotes and complete context.
Claude is good at web tech, which means Claude is good at video Animated explainer videos are mostly HTML, CSS, SVG, and timing. The first version Claude writes isn't your finished video, but it's not embarrassing either.
How to get A team made our launch video with Claude Code
The same way Claude can write a first version of a landing page that doesn't embarrass you. The UI is live, not a mock, because the agent already understands web components.
What to watch after A team made our launch video with Claude Code
You don't need motion graphics software for overlays For a short founder talking-head clip we wanted real motion graphics on top. See the full write-up from HN Claude/Codex/Fable via the source link for quotes and complete context.
Developer Action Items
- ☐ Diff the official changelog for Claude / Codex before you bump — APIs, defaults, and removed flags only.
- ☐ Install through the vendor's documented channel in staging; keep a one-command rollback and time-box the canary.
- ☐ Grep your repo for old flag names, lockfile pins, and plugin versions that the notes mark as breaking.
- ☐ Prefer the first patch cut over the day-zero tag unless you have a reason to be on the leading edge.
- ☐ If HN Claude/Codex/Fable did not name a region, plan, or SKU, screenshot the official availability line before you promise it to users.
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