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Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by ronak_parmar » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

devolving-dev wrote: post #18

KaseKun wrote: post #15

I have no use for this, however I am stunned by the simple and effective solution of using json+sse instead of an API to allow agent interaction Amazing work

What's the benefit of SSEs here?

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Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by vanilagy » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

genxy wrote: post #42

vanilagy wrote: post #41

You should strongly consider using Mediabunny to do all of the rendering client-side!

I couldn't find a skill in your project that would help integrate mediabunny. The docs and examples look like they could really help. Having good example coverage allows agents to pickup libraries easily. https://github.com/Vanilagy/mediabunny

Just point the agent at the docs, it'll understand them quickly. Mediabunny also has many examples and even a dedicated LLM page.

Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by JeremyHerrman » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

doctorpangloss wrote: post #46

JeremyHerrman wrote: post #45

PSA stop putting bigco IP in your project names! has clawdbot taught us nothing?

is "Notepad" a bigco IP project name?

yes, microsoft does hold a trademark for notepad. As litigious as MS is I'm pleasantly surprised they've left notepad++ alone.

Unfortunately anthropic is actively eroding community goodwill in regards to potential IP conflicts:

https://abnormal.ai/blog/abnormal-response-to-anthropic-laws...

https://x.com/steipete/status/2016068265391354181

Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by tidbeck » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

JeremyHerrman wrote: post #45

PSA stop putting bigco IP in your project names! has clawdbot taught us nothing?

Guess it is efficient for attention.

Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by nolok » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

JeremyHerrman wrote: post #53

doctorpangloss wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is "Notepad" a bigco IP project name?

yes, microsoft does hold a trademark for notepad. As litigious as MS is I'm pleasantly surprised they've left notepad++ alone. Unfortunately anthropic is actively eroding community goodwill in regards to potential IP conflicts: https://abnormal.ai/blog/abnormal-response-to-anthropic-laws... https://x.com/steipete/status/2016068265391354181

Microsoft has a lot of trademark meant to protect them from agression rather than attack themselves

Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by upmostly » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 4:57 PM UTC

ronak_parmar wrote: post #11

upmostly wrote: post #2

Have you thought about integrating Remotion into this?

What do you think the next update will be about..^_~

Just watch out for their license...

Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by ronak_parmar » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 5:33 PM UTC

armcat wrote: post #47

This looks great, will try it out. I had a crazy idea of doing a full agentic demo video narration and cutting, so might try your tool with some tweaks.

Thanks! That sounds like a really interesting use case. I'd love to see how it turns out. If you end up making those tweaks for full agentic narration and video cutting, feel free to share your experience or ideas, I'd be happy to learn from them and see if they could be incorporated into the tool.

Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by ronak_parmar » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 5:35 PM UTC

hotpartition wrote: post #49

Love that the timeline is just JSON and the UI hot-reloads. Agents and humans on the same edit is the interesting part.

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Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by beAbU » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 6:13 PM UTC

JeremyHerrman wrote: post #53

doctorpangloss wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is "Notepad" a bigco IP project name?

yes, microsoft does hold a trademark for notepad. As litigious as MS is I'm pleasantly surprised they've left notepad++ alone. Unfortunately anthropic is actively eroding community goodwill in regards to potential IP conflicts: https://abnormal.ai/blog/abnormal-response-to-anthropic-laws... https://x.com/steipete/status/2016068265391354181

If MS can go after notepad++ then Bjarne Stroustrup can go after C#?

Re: Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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Post by giancarlostoro » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC

JeremyHerrman wrote: post #53

doctorpangloss wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

is "Notepad" a bigco IP project name?

yes, microsoft does hold a trademark for notepad. As litigious as MS is I'm pleasantly surprised they've left notepad++ alone. Unfortunately anthropic is actively eroding community goodwill in regards to potential IP conflicts: https://abnormal.ai/blog/abnormal-response-to-anthropic-laws... https://x.com/steipete/status/2016068265391354181

I made "qNotepad" in college, it's been on GitHub forever, never gotten any DMCAs or anything. Maybe they don't care that deeply?