Cardboard is an agentic video editor that gets you from raw footage to final cut in minutes. Think of it like an intelligent collaborator, one that understands what's in your clips, has the taste to know what a good edit looks like, and executes your vision.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Saksham, Co-Founder & CEO of Cardboard (Backed by Y Combinator).
Video editing hasn't fundamentally changed in 25 years. You still drag clips and spend hours on cuts that should take seconds. The tools got prettier but the grind remained.
My Co-Founder, Ishan and I built Cardboard because we lived this problem ourselves while creating content.
Both of us hit the same wall: tools like Premiere Pro or DaVinci are powerful, but the learning curve is steep and getting to first cut takes hours. Creativity starts to feel like manual work.
Cardboard is the agentic video editor, think Cursor, but for video. You describe the edit, it executes. It runs in your browser, supports live collaboration, and lets you find footage by what's in it.
Humans from PostHog, Airtable, Google, and more, are using Cardboard to go from raw footage to final cut in minutes.
Now it's your turn: https://www.usecardboard.com/signup
We'll be here in comments all day, ask us anything :)
We'd love to hear your thoughts/feedback.
Find us on X:
https://x.com/usecardboardhttps://x.com/sxmawlhttps://x.com/ishandeveloper
I really appreciate the live collaboration feature weaved into this. Is there a comment-and-resolve flow on the timeline or is that on the roadmap?
Woah this is insane. I remember someone debating on twitter about the idea that building cursor for video editing is impossible to build. Guess that didn't age well haha.
Que: why browser and why not a mac app?
Btw love the name guys. Keep going. Will definitely try.
This looks really exciting! I’ve been waiting years for a product like this, but with pricing starting at $60 a month, obviously this is aimed at businesses and not at individuals. I hope you are successful and there is some path towards launching a consumer product with a much lower price point. It would also be exciting if there was a local client, something that didn’t force customers to upload gigabytes of video footage. Not everyone has a fast pipe so this could be limiting in some scenarios.
This is awesome, its amazing to see how many functions people perform online are now totally turning out to be prompt and usage based.
"Cursor for video editing" and backed by YC. My video editor just started updating their resume. Upvoted. 🎬
If someone is currently happy with Descript for transcript editing (or Premiere/DaVinci for full control), what’s the specific “breaking point” where Cardboard becomes the obvious switch—and what do you intentionally *not* try to compete on?
Great execution here. As someone who’s spent 15+ years in Ae ‘dragging around’ clips in the timeline this feels like a natural evolution for video. Congrats on the launch!
Ishan is a wonderful person. For quite a long time, ever since we used to speak a lot about WebAssembly and we also met at JSConf India in 2023. He is a super, super talented person, and I'm just so glad to see him launch such an amazing product, which is live today now. Kudos to the team for building this and this overall user experience of having an authentic video editor and how that should look. This is the tool; so much thought and effort has gone into the UI/UX and just being able to create videos on the fly, having that chat-like prompt to be able to distribute the videos and have really, really slick, clean UI for doing editing on the fly. It's just massive, right, so proud of what they've been able to do and support this launch throughout.
Awesome let's go guys - super bullish on Cardboard - think this might actually get the DaVinci users to move over
the "describe the edit, it executes" framing is sharp. curious how the agent handles first-time users with no editing history - does it lean on the clarifying questions a lot early on? the cold start problem for understanding someone's aesthetic is one of the harder ones. congrats on the launch @saksham_aggarwal7
Huge fan of the product and team! What’s the most non obvious usecase of cardboard you’ve seen in the wild?
"Cursor for video editing" — okay you have my attention. As someone who uses Cursor daily for coding, the idea of an AI that actually understands what's in my footage and makes editing decisions for me sounds incredible. I've been wanting to make short demo videos for my apps but always gave up at the editing stage because it takes forever. If this can take raw screen recordings and turn them into polished product demos, I'm sold. Is that a use case you support, or is it more focused on podcast/talking-head content?
this looks incredibly exciting, congrats on the launch. does it resync the timeline if we change the music later? that’s honestly my biggest pain point in editing videos.
Video editing is the bottleneck for every YouTube creator I talk to. The ideas and scripting part can be fast, but then you spend 6 hours cutting and trimming. If this does for video what Cursor did for coding, I want to see it in action. How does it handle multicam or footage with a lot of cuts? That's usually where AI editors fall apart.
Great product! How does it handle longer recordings like customer calls or screen recordings where the "good parts" are buried? Does it let you describe what you're looking for semantically, or is it more keyword-based?
