π Product Hunt exclusive: 50% off Producer for your first month β https://app.craftstory.com/?promo=producthunt CraftStory generates hyper-realistic, human-centric videos for L&D, podcasts, and UGC. Create videos from a single image or train a custom avatar from just a 15-second video. Powered by a proprietary model trained on professional actor footage licensed through revenue-sharing agreements, CraftStory delivers realistic, expressive videos at just 4.5 cents per second.
We're the team behind OpenCV (the open-source computer-vision library). For the past two years, weβve watched AI video get sharper but stay short β Seedance 2.0 tops out around 15s, most models do <10s, and the moment a clip runs long the face drifts and the illusion breaks. That's useless if you actually want to say something β a product walkthrough, a training module, a spokesperson. So we built CraftStory to solve length and identity together. Give it one photo and a script (or your own audio), and it generates coherent, minutes-long talking videos β same face frame-to-frame, accurate lip-sync, natural gestures, in 30+ languages. You can also:
build a custom avatar of yourself from a ~15s video,
pick from 100+ ready-made AI actors,
or hand the whole thing to a Video Agent that writes the script, adds b-roll/subtitles, and casts an avatar β all edited by chat.
There's a free plan (no card) so you can try it on your own photo right now: https://craftstory.com/ We'd genuinely love your feedback β especially: if you could generate a minutes-long video with consistent characters, what would you do? And where does it still fall short? We're in the comments all day.π
Licensing the actor footage through revenue share is the part buyers will care about, and it's buried at the bottom of the description. L&D is exactly where legal asks who is in the frame and what happens if that person objects in two years, and a licensed model is a very different answer to a scraped one. I'd put that line above the 4.5 cents.
Awesome, the genai space is heating up even more :) multi-minute consistency is an impressive feat.
1) What is the difference between Model 2.0 and AI Actors? Am I correct in understanding that Model 2.0 is used to generate any type of video scene? Could you explain in more detail what AI Actors can do and when they should be used instead of Model 2.0? 2) Is it possible to purchase additional Model 2.0 credits if I need to generate more videos than my monthly credit allowance?
Looks good, and the opportunity to test it for free is nice! Not exactly what I was looking for (not UGC- or avatar-type, but more creative videos for promoting products/services), but should be a good product for its purposes.
Awesome to see this launch happening and coming from the team with some of the OGs of the computer vision industry makes it even more exciting.
Good luck guys, love the product and the tech behind it, exciting to see where you take this forward! Kudos to Victor and Alex!
Congrats on the launch! AI avatar videos are getting genuine traffic, my parents told me last week about videos they watched and they didn't realize they were AI made. I guess good content is good content no matter how you package it!
βPhotorealistic human video, powered by compact AIβ
CraftStory launched on Product Hunt on July 30th, 2026 and earned 147 upvotes and 18 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. π Product Hunt exclusive: 50% off Producer for your first month β https://app.craftstory.com/?promo=producthunt CraftStory generates hyper-realistic, human-centric videos for L&D, podcasts, and UGC. Create videos from a single image or train a custom avatar from just a 15-second video. Powered by a proprietary model trained on professional actor footage licensed through revenue-sharing agreements, CraftStory delivers realistic, expressive videos at just 4.5 cents per second.
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Alexander Shishkov
Hey Product Hunt π
We're the team behind OpenCV (the open-source computer-vision library). For the past two years, weβve watched AI video get sharper but stay short β Seedance 2.0 tops out around 15s, most models do <10s, and the moment a clip runs long the face drifts and the illusion breaks. That's useless if you actually want to say something β a product walkthrough, a training module, a spokesperson.
So we built CraftStory to solve length and identity together. Give it one photo and a script (or your own audio), and it generates coherent, minutes-long talking videos β same face frame-to-frame, accurate lip-sync, natural gestures, in 30+ languages. You can also:
build a custom avatar of yourself from a ~15s video,
pick from 100+ ready-made AI actors,
or hand the whole thing to a Video Agent that writes the script, adds b-roll/subtitles, and casts an avatar β all edited by chat.
There's a free plan (no card) so you can try it on your own photo right now: https://craftstory.com/
We'd genuinely love your feedback β especially: if you could generate a minutes-long video with consistent characters, what would you do? And where does it still fall short? We're in the comments all day.π