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Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor
Hacker News · lukeigel · Published · 3 min read · 908 on Hacker News
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Kino AI launched a code-first video editor enabling AI agents and teams to collaborate on video projects with shared timelines and real-time editing.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building agentic video workflows, content teams managing multiple projects daily, and developers needing programmatic video editing capabilities.
- Watch out
- Currently Electron-only, not yet available as pure web browser. Performance with very large professional media files and cross-platform stability remain unproven at scale.
The patterns behind this
- Shared Scratchpad Collaboration
- Eval-Driven Development (Agent CI)
- Context Editing & Tool-Result Clearing
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