My friends and I built Vany, a tool that responds to any LLM query with a TikTok – essentially a short narrated video answer to your prompt. We built it because we often prefer watching a short video over reading a block of text or long article. There are many impressive AI video tools out there that generate visually striking content for creators, but we wanted something that gives helpful videos back to the queries we put into LLMs or search engines every day. Vany lets anyone quickly get an engaging and useful video back to any question – without needing to become a creator or professional prompter.
You can try it for free at https://vany.ai. Just type any question or topic and you’ll get a video answer in under a minute. We do ask for a quick one-click sign-in so we can give everyone a generous amount of free videos a day (up to 50/day this week for HN!). You can explore some recent examples at https://vany.ai/browse. Videos are private by default; if you want to share it, you can change the visibility via the Share button.
This is an early version, and there's a lot we want to improve. We’re working hard to make it useful and engaging (not slop!). We’re actively improving the quality of the answers - like getting the visuals to be more consistently accurate and making sure the video focuses on precisely what you wanted with minimal input - while also reducing time-to-first-frame and overall latency. Our biggest focus is to incorporate true motion video as the tech becomes more accessible (and if we can convince someone to give us credits!). We’re also planning to add support for follow up queries, multimedia input, and, eventually, languages beyond English.
We'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions you have! We’re especially curious to hear how you used it and if you found it useful. If you liked any of the videos, we’d love to see them (make public in the Share button and comment with the link)!