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
Hey, This looks great. Can you use it to create a "apple-esque" saas product explainer video from static image files? Almost like you upload images like a story board and use Cardboard to bring it to life with transitions and animations?
The video presentation looks quite simple. If I haven’t worked with video editors before, will it be easy for me to figure it out?
i can gather i'm obviously not the target audience, but no matter how good the product is (and i genuinely believe it very well may be), there's no way more than a few people are paying $75 for something they can't even see a demo of??? maybe it's just me
Great work team, can't wait to give it a whirl. This is a huge issue for us as we are spending a lot of time on creating content - we've automated a lot of the strategy and text based activity but the media assets still take way too long. This looks like ti can be the answer!
Cursor for video editing' is bold positioning. The thing about Cursor is that code is fundamentally text-based, which maps well to LLMs. Video is spatial and temporal how does the AI understand context like pacing, transitions, and visual rhythm? Can it handle things like 'make this section feel more energetic' or is it more for mechanical edits like cuts and trims?
This is a product that helps us day in day out with our own video production.
Takes away all bad parts of premiere pro and adds good things ❤️
One of my biggest challenges with AI editing software is that the clips end up feeling disjointed and lacks the "smooth" narrative that I'm going for. Are there ways to enter into a "plan" mode so that I can specify the style of video that I'm editing for?
This looks very cool. Congrats to you both on the launch guys. Is Final Cut export on your roadmap?
Are you able to train it on existing video editing styles of video templates you have and want to replicate such as a standard product video style that you make over and over?
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?
