Digger · 2026-09-24 · notable
LaunchVideo — Claude Opus 5.5 writes a product launch video as code
LaunchVideo turns a URL or product description into an MP4 launch video. Claude Opus 5.5 writes the film as HTML code and a serverless agent renders it in about four minutes, using roughly 100k tokens per film.
Paste a link, get a launch video: Opus 5.5 writes the scenes as code instead of using a video model.
What is it?
LaunchVideo is a demo app from Digger (diggerhq) that makes a finished product launch video from a URL or a short description. It was inspired by a post about Claude Opus 5.5 being good at explainer videos, and its source is on GitHub as diggerhq/shipvideo.
How does it work?
A TypeScript agent on the OpenComputer platform gives Claude Opus 5.5 three tools: fetch the web page, check a scene, and render video. The model writes the film as HTML, about 90k input and 15k output tokens per film, and headless Chromium plus ffmpeg render it to MP4 inside a fresh microVM. Because the film is code, the same film renders the same way every time.
Why does it matter?
The project shows a frontier model producing usable motion graphics without any video-generation model, which keeps output repeatable and editable. It reached the Hacker News front page with nearly 400 points as people tested how far Opus 5.5 can go on visual work.
Who is it for?
indie makers and devs who ship products
Try it
https://launchvideo.io