I'm Het, the maker of Monet. I built this because every "AI video editor" I tried felt like a chatbot bolted onto a timeline. Generate a clip. Hope it works. Try again. The agent never actually operated the editor. Monet flips that.
Click Terminal in the top bar and your favorite coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, whatever) is already in the room with full project context. It can scrub the timeline, trim clips, generate captions, search transcripts semantically, render Remotion compositions, and now — with Monet Canvas — actually design alongside your edit. Vector graphics, physics simulations, kinetic text, all drawn live in code, all auto-imported into your media library.
A few things that make it feel different:
- 🖥️ Terminal-native — real PTY, not a chat input. Use whatever agent you
already trust.
- 🎨 Canvas + video in one app — design frames in Paper.js / Matter.js / HTML
and they land directly on your timeline.
- 🔌 editorctl CLI + MCP + HTTP bridge — three deterministic ways for agents
to drive the editor.
- 📁 Local-first — your project, your transcripts, your canvas frames never
It's still early — macOS only, rough edges, but already usable on real projects. Would love your feedback, especially on the agent workflow. What would you want your editor to do for you?
— Het
About Monet on Product Hunt
“Edit Videos and Design Images with Claude Code and Codex”
Monet launched on Product Hunt on April 28th, 2026 and earned 70 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #52 on the daily leaderboard. Edit videos and Design images with Claude code or Codex.
On the analytics side, Monet competes within Design Tools, Productivity, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.4M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Monet performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Monet?
Monet was hunted by Het Patel. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Monet including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Het Patel
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Het, the maker of Monet. I built this because every "AI video editor" I tried felt like a chatbot bolted onto a timeline. Generate a clip. Hope it works. Try again. The agent never actually operated the editor. Monet flips that.
Click Terminal in the top bar and your favorite coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, whatever) is already in the room with full project context. It can scrub the timeline, trim clips, generate captions, search transcripts semantically, render Remotion compositions, and now — with Monet Canvas — actually design alongside your edit. Vector graphics, physics simulations, kinetic text, all drawn live in code, all auto-imported into your media library.
A few things that make it feel different:
- 🖥️ Terminal-native — real PTY, not a chat input. Use whatever agent you
already trust.
- 🎨 Canvas + video in one app — design frames in Paper.js / Matter.js / HTML
and they land directly on your timeline.
- 🔌 editorctl CLI + MCP + HTTP bridge — three deterministic ways for agents
to drive the editor.
- 📁 Local-first — your project, your transcripts, your canvas frames never
leave your machine.
- 🔓 Open source ⭐ github.com/Monet-AI-Editor/Monet
It's still early — macOS only, rough edges, but already usable on real projects. Would love your feedback, especially on the agent workflow. What would you want your editor to do for you?
— Het