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Runway API AI

Runway API AI

Runway API AI

Runway API AI

Runway API AI

Runway API AI

Runway API AI

Runway API AI

Runway API AI

I built 9 Claude skills in one session for my solo studio and here is what changed

Spent yesterday building nine skills for the work I do across three SaaS products and a handful of client projects. Sharing what I learned because the leap in productivity surprised me. What a skill is in case you have not built one yet: a folder with a SKILL.md file containing instructions that teach Claude how to handle a specific type of task. The skill auto-triggers when you describe the task naturally. You do not have to call it by name. The nine I built: Video production (FFmpeg scripts, voiceover prompts, social clip extraction) AI visual content (branded graphics, mockups, marketing assets) API documentation (OAuth debugging, integration tracking) Social media automation (cross-platform posting, voice consistency) SEO content strategy (keyword research, content calendars) Support ticketing (email templates in my voice) Product analytics dashboards (real metrics, real queries) Database performance optimization (query rewriting, indexing) Financial modeling (MRR forecasting, scenario planning) The biggest unlock was not the individual skills. It was what happens when they stack. I said "create a demo video for my HR SaaS and show me the analytics impact." Two skills auto-triggered. Got an FFmpeg recording script, an editing manifest, a voiceover draft, AND a dashboard mockup showing what metrics would prove the video drove signups. The thing that took me longest to figure out: Do not write skills as documentation. Write them as instructions to an experienced colleague who is about to start work for you. Include the specifics. My audio devices by name. My brand colors as hex codes. My customers and what I charge them. The words I refuse to use. The way I close emails. The more specific, the better the output. A few that pulled their weight immediately: The support template skill caught its own slip when it accidentally used a word I had banned, flagged it inline, and offered the corrected version The financial model knew my actual MRR, runway, and product roadmap, so the forecast was usable, not generic The video skill defaulted to recommending recording without audio so I could layer ElevenLabs voiceover in post, which is what I actually do Curious if anyone else is using skills heavily yet. What patterns have you found work best for solo or small team work? submitted by /u/Wise-Cardiologist-31 [link] [comments]

Claude via OpenMontage can now make Documentaries or ads for $0

OpenMontage is a thing I've been working on where your coding assistant like Claude Code is the actual agent. There's no orchestration python, no LLM key inside the project. It's a pile of skill files and pipeline manifests that teach the assistant how to think about video production stage by stage. Idea → script → scenes → assets → edit → compose. Github: https://github.com/calesthio/OpenMontage Got great traction when I Open Sourced it on Github last week. But there were two free-ish paths: Generate images with free stock footage or FLUX or similar, Ken-Burns them, add narration. Works. Looks like a slideshow. Plug in Kling / Runway / FAL and burn a few bucks on diffusion-model motion clips. Also works. But not everyone wants to pay $2-3 per video. What I actually wanted was real stock footage. The thing documentary editors use. Problem was there's no agent-friendly path to that. Options were either "download clips yourself and hand them to the agent" (defeats the point) or "call a search API that returns 20 results ranked by popularity" (useless for documentary work where you need exactly this shot, not the trending one). So I sat down this weekend and built a Documentary Montage pipeline. How it works: Agent takes your sentence. Writes a brief with tone, duration, thematic question. Plans slots with hero moments (shots that need to land) and cutaways. Searches free stock sources Builds a corpus on the fly and semantically ranks candidates against each slot's description. Picks the best ones, trims to their beat, adds L-cuts where ambient audio can carry under the next shot, enforces adjacent-scene diversity so you don't get two identical wide shots in a row. Syncs hero cuts to a music bed. Renders. Zero API keys on the video side. Total cost of the test piece I made: actually zero dollars. https://reddit.com/link/1si3hr4/video/utv57sqobgug1/player submitted by /u/Responsible_Maybe875 [link] [comments]

Automated the boring parts of content creation

I've been making content for a while and the tooling situation is genuinely annoying. Every platform wants a subscription. Runway is $35/mo for video only. InVideo locks everything behind their editor. Buffer/Later for scheduling is another $15-20. You end up paying $80-100/mo for a pipeline that you don't even fully control. So I built something and just open sourced it. It's a set of Claude Code slash commands. You type /content:create, answer a few questions (or just give it a topic and let it run), and it takes the whole thing from brief → script → image/video generation → scheduled post. No GUI, no subscription, just your Claude Code session and a few API keys. The pipeline: Images: Gemini Flash for free illustrative images, fal.ai Flux for character-consistent stuff Video: KlingAI through fal.ai (~$0.42 per 5s clip vs $35+/mo for Runway) Voice narration: Chatterbox Turbo running locally (GPU-accelerated if you have one, falls back gracefully if not) Scheduling: self-hosted Postiz → publishes to YouTube, X, LinkedIn simultaneously The thing I'm actually proud of: an AutoResearch loop that pulls your post analytics after each publish cycle and automatically rewrites your generation prompt toward what's actually performing The zero monthly floor thing matters if you're doing this casually. Some months I post a lot, some months I don't. Paying $35/mo when you post twice that month feels bad. Setup is: copy a .claude/ folder into your project, set your env vars, run /content:status to verify everything's connected. That's it. It's rough in places — the Postiz self-hosting setup is genuinely annoying (needs Temporal + Elasticsearch, not just Redis + Postgres like the docs imply). I documented the painful parts in the README including a LinkedIn OAuth patch you have to apply manually because their default scopes require Pages API approval most people don't have. Anyway, code's there, MIT licensed, might be useful to someone. https://github.com/arnaldo-delisio/claude-content-machine submitted by /u/arnaldodelisio [link] [comments]

SORA IS SHUTTING DOWN???

I literally just saw the tweet and I cannot believe this is real I genuinely had to read the announcement three times because I thought it was a fake account or something but no it's real, OpenAI is actually killing Sora, the app the API everything, I'm sitting here refreshing twitter trying to find more details and all they've said is "we'll share more soon" which is not an explanation for shutting down the product that was the #1 app on the app store like 5 months ago and the DISNEY DEAL?? the billion dollar investment with Marvel and Pixar and Star Wars characters?? just dead?? apparently a Disney team was literally working with the Sora team last night and didn't know this was coming, imagine finding out your billion dollar partnership is over because your partner "pivoted strategy" overnight I keep thinking about the timeline here because it genuinely doesn't make sense to me, they posted a blog about Sora safety standards YESTERDAY, people were generating videos this morning, and now it's just gone, how do you publish a safety blog for a product you're about to kill in 24 hours the WSJ is saying Altman told staff this frees up compute for coding and enterprise stuff ahead of the IPO and honestly that makes me feel some type of way because it basically confirms Sora was always a shiny demo that got too expensive once the real business math kicked in, millions of people built creative workflows around this thing and it was a side quest the whole time apparently also NBC just reported that Anthropic focusing on coding over video is exactly what pressured OpenAI into this which is kind of poetic, Claude never tried to do video and now it's the reason OpenAI stopped doing video too the AI video space is going to be chaos this week, every creator who was on Sora is about to flood into runway and kling and magic hour and veo 3 all at once and those platforms probably weren't ready for this kind of sudden migration, going to be really interesting to see who actually captures that demand I know some people are going to say "it's just a product shutting down calm down" but this was THE video generation tool that changed how people thought about AI and creativity and it's gone in a tweet with no explanation and no timeline and honestly I think we're allowed to be a little shocked about it is anyone else just genuinely stunned right now or did people see this coming because I absolutely did not submitted by /u/Jealous-Drawer8972 [link] [comments]