I was excited by the title until I saw it was all AI :(
It would’ve been cool to collect actual images from history. I’m sure there are 1000s of public domain images that could be used.
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#42YC funded a bunch of AI video companies (4+), and AFAICT the Eggnog folks are hustling the hardest.
The path forward as a foundation video model company closed, so they worked hard on end-to-end story creation workflows and mobile.
Turns out that's hard to gain traction and distribution amongst dozens of other similarly shaped startups. So they hack on games and fun viral loops.
Keep at it! This is super clever. You're getting noticed.
Video is going to be huge, and even though power law dictates there will be only a few winners, I think there's space for teams hustling this hard if you can find distribution.
Let the foundation video model companies fight to the death. They've over-raised and are being commoditized by Tencent and Alibaba's open source foundation video models (Hunyuan and Wan). You can use their APIs on the cheap and still provide value. And value will accrue to the application layer.
Focus on what the creators want and need.
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#43I love the idea, but GenAI isn't really up to it. The images are awful - like a Hammer Horror/Netflix-does-history vibe, but it's strangely addictive!
In this History football (soccer) is played with 2 balls. Who knew?!
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#44I could imagine this to become a pastime for curious kids, and parents having nothing against them spending time on it. It still needs development and quality improvements, but that is a direction I could imagine it taking.
Totally, I really hope it inspires a love of history in kids.
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#45This is truly remarkable- one of the best use cases for text-to-video products! Lots of fun with learning aspect
Thank you!
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#46I was excited by the title until I saw it was all AI :( It would’ve been cool to collect actual images from history. I’m sure there are 1000s of public domain images that could be used.
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#47I love the idea, but GenAI isn't really up to it. The images are awful - like a Hammer Horror/Netflix-does-history vibe, but it's strangely addictive!
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#48As an Indian, The irony wasn't lost on me when I placed the marker on West Indies (Caribbean islands) when the actual Spot was East India.
Haha yeah some of them are pretty tricky
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#49Ignore the AI comments, this app is so much more flexible with it, and the pictures will only get better. Great idea for an app!
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#50The super anachronistic output makes this really difficult. One of the examples was the battle in the war of the roses but all the imagery suggests over a hundred years later.
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