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Founder makes launch videos with Claude Code as HTML pages

About 20 films rendered frame by frame with Playwright and encoded with ffmpeg. The voiceover cost came to about 10 cents.

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What the research found

A startup founder used Claude Code to build about 20 launch and how-to films as HTML pages with a render(t) function, captured frame by frame with Playwright and encoded with ffmpeg, for a total voiceover cost near 10 cents.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Each film is one HTML file with a render(t) function, and a Playwright script screenshots every frame into ffmpeg 98%
  2. About 20 films were made in four days using Claude Code 98%
  3. The voiceover with Gemini TTS cost about 10 cents for the whole film 96%
  4. The engine is about 50 lines of code 98%

Evidence

Actionability rated medium.