Hola! PH Community! A big thanks to the makers around the globe and the PH team to help us with the soft release of our public BETA platform. This is my first big launch and I’m extremely nervous as well as excited. 🤪 With vidBoard.ai, the problem we are trying to address is around presenter-led video presentation tools and that too at scale. The traditional processes of creating video presentations are too complex. From writing a script to engaging a video presenter, adjusting the lighting to hiring professionals like cameramen, voice artists, translators, make-up artists etc. and the worst part of the whole process… Those N-number of retakes. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Do we really need to go ahead and soldier through all these tedious tasks and at the same time spend a lot of time, effort, money, and mental peace on it? 🤔 I’m sure our answer shall be no… At vidBoard.ai, my co-founder @ashwin_madhavan and I have developed this bespoke AI-driven tool that helps users generate presenter-led video presentations at scale without getting bothered about the aforementioned video creation tasks. Consequently, leading to a change in how we perceive presenter-led videos could be made. So, this was a short introduction to vidBoard.ai. Should we all use it? ... Why not? It is amongst the best video tools in the industry? … Well, Hell yeah!!! So, come join us, try our tool and be a part of this change. 💪💪 Create your free trial account while the offer lasts, by visiting – www.vidboard.ai

Hello Product Hunters! My name is Ashwin Madhavan and I am the Co-Founder and CEO of vidBoard. The team hasn't been happier than today; vidBoard.ai’s public beta version is now live!!!!!!!!!!! As any product parent, Tushar and I, as co-founders, are extremely excited about the launch of vidBoard. It is a common practice across the globe for would-be parents to organize a grand baby shower before the baby is born. We thought of following in the footsteps and having a baby shower on Product Hunt. Well, here we are! We invite you all to vidBoard’s baby shower on Product Hunt. 🥳🥳 How it all started? There is an ancient Chinese proverb that goes - “The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place.” Truly, the journey of vidBoard is a perfect representation of this statement. The story of vidBoard began while I was working in an online legal education platform called Enhelion. When the pandemic hit in 2020, it became challenging for us to generate video content at scale for our student community. On one hand, the demand for online learning was increasing exponentially, and on the other, continuous lockdowns created roadblocks for video production. I happened to meet my future co-founder and a dear friend, Tushar (@tushar_bhatnagar), during the same time. He is a geek who loves solving tech problems. Naturally, he suggested the use of AI for video generation. Traditionally, if you want to create a video presentation, you follow these steps- 1. Writing a script 📝 2. Hiring an actor/presenter 🕵🏻 3. Going to a studio and connecting with studio professionals like cameramen, makeup artists etc. 📹 4. Recording the video with several retakes just to get that one perfect shot 😑😓 5. Sending the video to an editing studio; hiring translators and voiceover artists if you wish to translate the video into different languages. 😵‍💫 Trust me, it’s nothing less than a nightmare. 😨 It is very tiresome, requires a lot of patience and creates a BIG hole in the pocket. I can just go on and on with the hassles and dramas involved, but you got my point, right? Having gone through the same nightmare, the entrepreneurial bug in me wanted to find a solution for this never-ending and tormenting process of video creation. Hence, vidBoard came into being! 🦸🏻‍♂️ With vidBoard, we envision making the process of video creation not only easy but, affordable and completely end-to-end driven by AI. All you need is a script and you can leave steps 2-5 👆🏻 to us. Awesome features- ✅ HD videos with human led-presenters ✅ Video translation and subtitles available in 125+ languages ✅ 20 pre-designed templates, with an ever-increasing stock ✅ 25+ real human pictures/avatars ✅ Presentation assets like images, sound, gifs, objects etc. We have integrated the APIs of Unsplash and Pexels into our tool, i.e., ensuring you have a surplus of options to choose from! ✅ Smooth user interface ✅ Affordable- 1/100 the cost of its traditional counterparts ✅ Near real-time video creation ✅ Least amount of turnaround time among the competitors All this at the comfort of your home. Isn’t it amazing?🤯 To gain some validation from the tech startup community, we applied to one of the world’s leading startup competitions held in Singapore– Slingshot 2021. To our profound happiness, we were short-listed among the top 1000 startups in the world. With the launch of vidBoard on Product Hunt today, we intend to take yet another validation from the community! We believe in a futuristic world that automates video creation. We aspire to play a big part in the creator economy. Let’s bid goodbye 👋🏻 to longer working hours and traditional studios. Feel free to ask us anything about our product and let us know if you like it! (We are offering free internal access to all PH users) To create a free account on vidBoard.ai, please click here - https://vidboard.ai/accounts/sig... P.S.- You might find some bugs 🪲🪲 while using vidBoard. Please inform us if you come across any so that we can get rid of them ASAP! Just drop an email to ashwin@vidboard.ai and we will find those pesky buggers…. P.S.S.– Some of our use cases have been mentioned below. Do check out the videos- 1. News delivery video - 2. Corporate Induction video - 3. Educational video - 4. Product explainer video -

This is great! Congratulations!

I am super impressed! It's great to find a tool that integrates the elements of video, presentation and talking avatars. I see a lot of potential for the product. Good wishes to the team..

So cool! I need to try this out 🙀 Thanks for sharing!

Hey @ashwin_madhavan and @tushar_bhatnagar congrats on the great work. The pains and problems you described are very common, and I personally struggled recently exactly in finding the flexible and smart approach in creating presentation videos; therefore your solution resonates a lot with me ;). I believe that leveraging AI for both text-to-speech and image/video playback is definitely the right strategy and a no-regret move for everyone (in this industry as in many others) in the near future. And the scenarios and use cases you can add are endless, e.g. automatic AI-based videos for social platforms, how-to-guides and demos, etc. I will give it a try. Thanks and keep going! Best, Giuseppe

The website is beautiful. The tool– incredible. The entire process of selecting the avatar and language, adding text and inserting multimedia elements, is so seamless. The tool guide was of great help! And the featured templates are just WOW. Really happy for the entire team and congratulations @ashwin_madhavan and @tushar_bhatnagar! You both deserve all the appreciation today!

Amazing tool! Really loved it. Congratulations to the entire team of vidBoard, especially @ashwin_madhavan @tushar_bhatnagar.

@ashwin_madhavan / @tushar_bhatnagar You both did a great job. Finally a tool which do more than create and animate images. I was looking for it from ages Congratulations to whole Team :)

Wow. This is a cool DIY tool! What are the commercials involved? In our Ed Tech content development scenario, when we hire SMEs for pre-recorded videos, we end up paying lakhs of rupees...

Congratulations @ashwin_madhavan @tushar_bhatnagar and the vidBoard team!!

Congrats on the launch @ashwin_madhavan and @tushar_bhatnagar . Seems like a competitive tech product. Hope to see you guys leveraging this tech to solve the pain points and disrupt the market. All the best!!

This would be such a great savior! Amazing tool!!!

This is really cool! @kindacoder check this out.

This is awesome! Congratulations on your launch.

Have been fortunate to be a beta user of Vidboard and absoluely love the tool as well as the passion the entire team puts in this. Congrats for finally launching on PH and making this available to a wider audiance @ashwin_madhavan

Congratulations

Congratulations!!!

What really? Talking humans feel so real. The presentation videos look so impressive. Can’t wait to use it for my next presentation. Congratulations to the entire team of @vidboard_ai .

It is a nice product to create template