Show HN: Blog to Video (blog2vid.io)

Hey guys, I had a quite overgrown video gen python tool that used gpt, dalle, mj (the initial reason I created mjapi.io), then someone on reddit asked me if I could create a barebones blog-to-vid tool for him, he'd pay 1k for a 2y license. which sparkled my imagination.

Since I already had all the fancy stuff in place, most notably the moviepy pipeline (transitions and all that stuff), I said sure, let me repurpose my current tool (I actually duplicated the project, in case I'd need to continue the old one later).

The way it works is:

1. either enter an article's url or skip to get a template script (better use the 2nd option first, as the template doubles as documentation)

2. edit the script to your liking, adding external image urls in the form of "name=url", then referencing them at the beginning of each paragraph as "<name>". this is a made-up markup syntax I invented just for this purpose, to be maximally visual within the bounds of this app. ofc, a 'fancy-pants' editor with buttons and sliders is on the way

3. optionally upload 2-3 mins of your voice, wait for it to process (no progress bar), then you can select it from the dropdown

4. choose render settings and press render. if it takes a long time, just wait, there's just 1 worker behind the scenes (but I can easily spin up more if needed, just lmk)

stuff I've learned:

- django is goat if you're proactive in python; it also sucks if you want to test it on different machines without https

- swagger is AMAZING

- front-end devs are underrated; I'm really struggling with convincing my friend to help me with it :D all the backend and everything is ready to scale with any kind of demand, but front end is ages behind