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vidBoard 1.0 — Make video presentations with AI 🚀
Our AI-powered platform creates impressive video presentations with talking avatars. All you need to do – select a human picture, type in the text, add multimedia elements, and VOILA- our cool AI tool converts all this into a stunning video, instantly!
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Congrats on the PH N1! I might be late for the party 🤪 @ashwin_madhavan @tushar_bhatnagar
It is impressive that you only need an image and you can generate the avatar (I hope I didn't get this wrong).
It has really good quality, and it seems a great tool for scaling content generation.
BTW, Can a voiceover be uploaded for generating the content?
Yes! You got it right! Thats what we envision and the avatars on our portal are mere photos. :)))..
To answer your awesome question - yes we intend to add this feature in our second version.
Hello Product Hunters!
My name is Ashwin Madhavan and I am the Co-Founder and CEO of vidBoard.
The team hasn't been happier than today; vidBoard.ai’s public beta version is now live!!!!!!!!!!!
As any product parent, Tushar and I, as co-founders, are extremely excited about the launch of vidBoard. It is a common practice across the globe for would-be parents to organize a grand baby shower before the baby is born. We thought of following in the footsteps and having a baby shower on Product Hunt. Well, here we are! We invite you all to vidBoard’s baby shower on Product Hunt. 🥳🥳
How it all started?
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that goes - “The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place.” Truly, the journey of vidBoard is a perfect representation of this statement.
The story of vidBoard began while I was working in an online legal education platform called Enhelion. When the pandemic hit in 2020, it became challenging for us to generate video content at scale for our student community. On one hand, the demand for online learning was increasing exponentially, and on the other, continuous lockdowns created roadblocks for video production. I happened to meet my future co-founder and a dear friend, Tushar (@tushar_bhatnagar), during the same time. He is a geek who loves solving tech problems. Naturally, he suggested the use of AI for video generation.
Traditionally, if you want to create a video presentation, you follow these steps-
1. Writing a script 📝
2. Hiring an actor/presenter 🕵🏻
3. Going to a studio and connecting with studio professionals like cameramen, makeup artists etc. 📹
4. Recording the video with several retakes just to get that one perfect shot 😑😓
5. Sending the video to an editing studio; hiring translators and voiceover artists if you wish to translate the video into different languages. 😵💫
Trust me, it’s nothing less than a nightmare. 😨
It is very tiresome, requires a lot of patience and creates a BIG hole in the pocket. I can just go on and on with the hassles and dramas involved, but you got my point, right?
Having gone through the same nightmare, the entrepreneurial bug in me wanted to find a solution for this never-ending and tormenting process of video creation. Hence, vidBoard came into being! 🦸🏻♂️
With vidBoard, we envision making the process of video creation not only easy but, affordable and completely end-to-end driven by AI.
All you need is a script and you can leave steps 2-5 👆🏻 to us.
Awesome features-
✅ HD videos with human led-presenters
✅ Video translation and subtitles available in 125+ languages
✅ 20 pre-designed templates, with an ever-increasing stock
✅ 25+ real human pictures/avatars
✅ Presentation assets like images, sound, gifs, objects etc. We have integrated the APIs of Unsplash and Pexels into our tool, i.e., ensuring you have a surplus of options to choose from!
✅ Smooth user interface
✅ Affordable- 1/100 the cost of its traditional counterparts
✅ Near real-time video creation
✅ Least amount of turnaround time among the competitors
All this at the comfort of your home. Isn’t it amazing?🤯
To gain some validation from the tech startup community, we applied to one of the world’s leading startup competitions held in Singapore– Slingshot 2021. To our profound happiness, we were short-listed among the top 1000 startups in the world. With the launch of vidBoard on Product Hunt today, we intend to take yet another validation from the community!
We believe in a futuristic world that automates video creation. We aspire to play a big part in the creator economy. Let’s bid goodbye 👋🏻 to longer working hours and traditional studios.
Feel free to ask us anything about our product and let us know if you like it! (We are offering free internal access to all PH users)
To create a free account on vidBoard.ai, please click here - https://vidboard.ai/accounts/sig...
P.S.- You might find some bugs 🪲🪲 while using vidBoard. Please inform us if you come across any so that we can get rid of them ASAP! Just drop an email to ashwin@vidboard.ai and we will find those pesky buggers….
P.S.S.– Some of our use cases have been mentioned below. Do check out the videos-
1. News delivery video -
2. Corporate Induction video -
3. Educational video -
4. Product explainer video -
Have been fortunate to be a beta user of Vidboard and absoluely love the tool as well as the passion the entire team puts in this. Congrats for finally launching on PH and making this available to a wider audiance @ashwin_madhavan
Hey @ashwin_madhavan and @tushar_bhatnagar congrats on the great work. The pains and problems you described are very common, and I personally struggled recently exactly in finding the flexible and smart approach in creating presentation videos; therefore your solution resonates a lot with me ;).
I believe that leveraging AI for both text-to-speech and image/video playback is definitely the right strategy and a no-regret move for everyone (in this industry as in many others) in the near future.
And the scenarios and use cases you can add are endless, e.g. automatic AI-based videos for social platforms, how-to-guides and demos, etc.
I will give it a try.
Thanks and keep going!
Best,
Giuseppe
THANK YOU SO MUCH Giuseppe.. we agree with you 100 percent.. thank you so much for your support.
@ashwin_madhavan @giuseppe_di_nuccio Thanks a lot. Your feedback is another level of validation for us.
The website is beautiful. The tool– incredible. The entire process of selecting the avatar and language, adding text and inserting multimedia elements, is so seamless. The tool guide was of great help! And the featured templates are just WOW.
Really happy for the entire team and congratulations @ashwin_madhavan and @tushar_bhatnagar! You both deserve all the appreciation today!
What really? Talking humans feel so real. The presentation videos look so impressive. Can’t wait to use it for my next presentation.
Congratulations to the entire team of @vidboard_ai .
An immediate sign-up for me! Been feeling the pain that your product is trying to solve for so many months!
Is the "add video" functionality unavailable now? - as I saw it appear on your videos but not when I create my account.
@mohamed_afiq hi thank you for your thumbs up. We are glad that you were eagerly waiting for a product like ours. The add video button will be activated in a few weeks. Final testing going on
@payam_saremi at first it does seem to be creepy. But trust me, it is completely safe. The avatars arent real either and we have a very strict policy with who can upload their pictures for the creation of avatars. Stay tuned for further updates on the product. Your support means the world to us Payam. God Speed!
@ashwin_madhavan / @tushar_bhatnagar You both did a great job.
Finally a tool which do more than create and animate images. I was looking for it from ages
Congratulations to whole Team :)
Superb platform guys and a top-notch UX/UI.
Awesome work @ashwin_madhavan @tushar_bhatnagar!! Congratulations to both of you.
@tushar_bhatnagar @ayush_kanchan
thank you Ayush! thank you for your words of encouragement!
@ashwin_madhavan @tushar_bhatnagar Great direction and the future is behind it, I'm sure.
But, now this IA narrator is so close to the uncanny valley effect for me... I'd really like to compare it to a live person. Maybe a presentation with this narrator loses a lot more in conversion than the savings in production.
Add an API from Fiverr, like Canva does with stock images, for a quick live person recording.
Add a/b testing of the resulting options.
@andrewmalcolm Thank you for the upvote Andrew! :)).. we will definitely look into what you mentioned
Amazing tool! Really loved it. Congratulations to the entire team of vidBoard, especially @ashwin_madhavan @tushar_bhatnagar.
Wow. This is a cool DIY tool! What are the commercials involved? In our Ed Tech content development scenario, when we hire SMEs for pre-recorded videos, we end up paying lakhs of rupees...
@jaishree_ravi Thank you for your comment! This cost will be almost 1/100th less than what you pay for recording lectures in a studio.
I am super impressed! It's great to find a tool that integrates the elements of video, presentation and talking avatars. I see a lot of potential for the product. Good wishes to the team..
@dr_mm_joshi Thank you Dr. Joshi! We are happy to have users like you!
It's absolutely like magic how vidBoard can create stunning avatar led videos !😯Thrilled become a part of vidBoard's future!🥳🥳
@nikita_anil1 Thank you Nikita! Yes it is indeed very exciting! The future of synthetic media is full of promise for all startups in the space including vidBoard
A much needed tool for video creation! Already signed up... looking forward to using this tool and hope this venture grows big! All the best to the entire team of vidBoard.ai @ashwin_madhavan
The product looks amazing. The idea behind creating this product is so impressive and it is going to create a massive impact on the users. Kudos to the whole team.
@pankajshukla_812 Thank you Pankaj! please keep using our product! We need all the support in the world
Congrats on the launch @ashwin_madhavan and @tushar_bhatnagar .
Seems like a competitive tech product.
Hope to see you guys leveraging this tech to solve the pain points and disrupt the market.
All the best!!
this looks really cool! A new competitor to Canva :D.. More power to you guys! Will try your product soon!
@andrew_palmer6 Thank you Andrew! Well we would want to work smartly and one day compete with the likes of Canva! We are already cracking it! :D
Hi Team, I found a bug in your site. Please let me know how I can report it? Thanks!
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