Show HN: Turn storybook.js stories into product videos

2 points by mox-1 11 hours ago

Hey HN,

I’m writing as part of a duo - both of us have a background in motion design, but have more recently been working as software developers. We’ve been trying to mash those two worlds together into something useful.

Both of us have dabbled in enough indie SAAS projects over the years, to know how marketing is usually the bottleneck to the success of an app. With all these nifty AI tools popping up all over the place, we found ourselves thinking: "why isn't there a tool that can turn a finished software product into a sleek, polished product video that can be used on marketing pages?" Furthermore, why can't those videos stay in sync with the state of the code, easily re-renderable whenever the UI evolves?

Since StorybookJS is a fairly mature ecosystem, our approach has been to use it, not as a static showcase of small components, but as a basis for a living catalogue of real UI states and flows that we can capture as clean, cursor-free clips. From there, storyish (that's our product name) strings those clips into an initial product video timeline (using a bit of AI to draft the first cut), which you can then tweak and export for your launch page or ads. The idea is that, so long as you have instrumented your code with storybook, you can quickly make a product video on that basis.

The beta is working well and we are close to opening it up to the first batch of users. We are looking for an early cohort of testers that can provide thoughtful feedback and have an influence on the roadmap, default templates, and overall direction of storyish before we open it up more broadly.

If that sounds like something you would be interested in, please do take a look at https://storyish.io