Hey HN. My co-founder and I begun working on Vidu 10 months ago. We are both ex-Intercom - he ran the outbound sales team at Intercom, I was an early engineer.
Vidu aims to help creative sales and marketing teams stand out in a prospect's inbox by allowing them to create hyper-personalized content in seconds. Our first iterations of our product focused on just-in-time use cases [1], it takes about 10 seconds to generate a GIF with our extension and pop it into an email. We're now working on adding integrations to unlock automated use cases, our first Zapier integration was released in beta this week.
On the tech side, we use Blender (for motion tracking and rendering [2]), Ffmpeg, Elixir/Phoenix and Ember.js and we host on AWS.
We decided early on to bootstrap and focus on building and selling. Happily, we recently reached profitability and we're hoping to soon reach a point where we can begin to expand our team.
Questions / feedback is very welcome, thanks.
[1] https://www.vidu.io/use-cases
[2] https://www.vidu.io/learn/recording-great-gifs
