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Another day, another AI demo!
This time it's radical new way to add text to videos.
(hint: you donโt need a keyboard)
CapsuleScript +
#GenerativeAI
= โจ
@Itsjoeco
@roybahat
Not a dumb question. Some companies did this and were wise to do so. Many others did not. It was not seen as risky to hold your money in a 40 year old bank with the best reputations in the valley.
๐ฅ๐ฅ Demo Day! ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Here's a sneak peak at Capsule's new generative AI tool that magically adds b-roll to videos.
A process that can take hours, now done in seconds!
#GenerativeAI
@SanFranAnt
I don't think you read the tweet. No one on my team of 10 is a millionaire. Very few that work at early startups are millionaires. That is the outcome they are hoping for by taking a below market salary in exchange for equity in a startup.
๐จBIG DAY at
@MadeWithCapsule
๐จ
3+ years in the making.
World, meet Capsuleโthe AI-powered video editor for teams.
Use the link in my profile to sign up (itโs free!)
@degrassijrhello
We give all of our employees stock options so that they are owners in the company.
The options are worthless until the company gets to an exit (like a sale or an IPO). Odds are extremely low and takes 10+ years if you're lucky.
We are more alike than you think.
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Another day, another AI demo!
This time it's radical new way to add text to videos.
(hint: you donโt need a keyboard)
CapsuleScript +
#GenerativeAI
= โจ
~15 years ago I was the first hire at very small web hosting company
I got fired a few months in. ๐
That company went on to become
@digitalocean
which just IPO'd.
Today, in Miami, I got startup advice over coffee from the guy who fired me. ๐๐ผ
@benuretsky
:)
Life is wild.
Most won't admit it, but every founder, at every stage, is scared to death.
Living with fear, embracing it, and pushing through it, is what separates the good from the great.
@AYakatally
๐
Folks this isnโt McDonalds.
Itโs an email from a founder trying her best to build a tiny startup in very difficult time (at home, at work, in the world)
Itโs OK to care about more than one thing at a time.
Have some empathy & save the dunks and rage for ppl who deserve it
@wienerburger
@SanFranAnt
I agree with you that working at a startup is incredibly risky. It is one of the things that everyone on the team has signed up for.
Having your funds evaporate into thin air overnight, however, was not one of those risks... until today.
Went beyond the Miami meme and broke bread w/ some very fine people last few weeks.
Transplants, deep roots, just visiting. Yup!
Every single one had infectious energy + a vision to build the future.
Buckle up Miami. ๐๐
I never considered this explicitly before, but of the four groups described in "The Four Quadrants of Conformism" (), I only write for the two on the right. I'm happy if conventional-minded people find my essays useful, but I don't expect them to.
๐ AI Audio for Video ๐
Today,
@madewithcapsule
is launching THREE incredible AI-powered audio features to level up the quality of your video in seconds. ๐
1/ Hi Iโm Champ. New to Twitter! ๐ This week you can follow me for a cause.
Donating $1 to
@GirlsWhoCode
for every new follow. Verified accounts = $100.
@socialismpirate
The govt bailed out a lot of the people you are referring in the last few years. But that is beside the point.
We donโt want a govt bail out. We want the bank to be bought privately and deposits made whole asap.
Today a group of HS kids pitched their startups to
@BloombergBeta
n friends.
My kid came in w/ a 12pg deck for a consumer startup. Included GTM and TAM - wait what?๐คฏ
He closes the pitch with โbtw my co-founder left me so I pivoted to this last weekโ
The Future looks bright.
@denk_tweets
@thetradingchick
Nowhere close to the competitive advantage of being married to your best friend.
Imagine a 24/7 ride or die who celebrates every win and downplays every loss. Unconditionally there in the best and worst of times.
Get married and u can do startups till you die. :)
Team went from 10 to 12 ppl today. ๐
We now have 5 incredibly talented engineers with creative backgrounds (film, music, design).
Goal is to build the most creative eng team in the world. Feels like we're on our way.
Seems like we're gonna need a modern, AI-first video editor to string all these AI-generated assets together so anyone can tell stories.
Who's building that? ๐ค
I'm now regularly receiving sales emails that are *highly* personalized but obviously AI generated.
I am now ignoring every email that does not come from someone I know personally.
Feels like trusted networks will become more important than ever.
Paths to a VC intro.
Ranked from hot to cold.
๐ฅCustomer in fundโs portfolio
๐คฉFounder in fundโs portfolio
๐Investor in current round
๐Investor in prev round
๐Mutual founder friend
๐Respected advisor
๐Mutual friend
๐ฅถCold email
Nothing prepped me more to be a startup founder than playing in bands.
It was all there: product, distribution, marketing, dealmaking, recruiting, events, culture, finance.
DIY-everything with zero budget.
Looking to hire more people who played in bands.
@degrassijrhello
I was homeschooled by my mother. I didnโt go to college. My father started from zero and worked hard to give my family a good life. He now works at a church.
I donโt think you deserve to know all this, but Iโm not sure else how to illustrate my point.
Adobe: "we launched generative fill"
Modyfi: "we rebuilt photoshop in the browser with AI informing every UX decision"
I don't know who wins, but the next few years is going to be really fun.
So much innovation in the creative tools space.
Well this was insanely cool!!
Watch the CMOs of HubSpot and Zapier give a rave review for
@madewithcapsule
on their podcast.
Thanks so much
@searchbrat
and
@kippbodnar
! Next goal is to turn you into customers ;)
Results of my 1st year on Twitter:
โข connected w/ ~200 founders, VCs, potential hires
โข made ~20 real (IRL) friends
โข acquired ~20 customers
โข got tons of customer feedback
โขย invested in 3x startups
โขย started
#miamitech
poker club (60+ ppl)
โขย learned a ton โ from you!
CapsuleScript is a robust video scripting language we developed over the last 2+ years.
It can automate virtually any video editing task you can imagine, with the quality and speed of native desktop video tools...but in the browser!
Finding music for videos used to be a tedious process.
Hereโs a sneak peek
@MadeWithCapsule
โs new Soundtrack feature.
It intelligently selects a handful of tracks after analyzing the contents of your video.
Launching this later month.
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ Huge news!
We're sooo excited to announce that
@WhiteHouse
is using
@MadeWithCapsule
to give the American people a voice through video!
Amazing to see how much these videos add authenticity and empathy to public discourse (much needed!)
Passionate about promoting health, nutrition, and physical activity? Join the
@WhiteHouse
effort to help end hunger & reduce diet-related diseases by 2030. Record a video to share your ideas for the
#WHConfHungerHealth
.
Canva just hit 100M MAU. ๐คฏ
An incredible milestone that shows just how big creative software can get when you eliminate complexity and allow anyone to express themselves.
We gave
@AmandaMGoetz
a sneak peak at
@MadeWithCapsule
.
She's an incredible marketer and storyteller.
But like so many of her peers, she's been trying to figure out how to do more video on her own without formal training or outsourcing.
Amazing to see how quickly she
Native video on Twitter/X gets 200% more engagement.
I've tried many video editing tools and all felt too difficult, overwhelming and time consuming....until now.
@MadeWithCapsule
is launching their beta today and I got to play around with it and it was so fun and FAST.
This
I shared Capsuleโs first negative review in Slack w the team.
It was harsh (and rightly soโฆwe have a lot to build!!).
This message from one of our engineers sums up how we plan to respond.
(๐ค this team)
We're about to launch
@MadeWithCapsule
and we literally can't wait to show it to you.
So we'll be sharing short clips of our favorite features in the coming weeks here in this thread! ๐๐
Funny timing on this tweet.
Had dinner w/ 30+ miami founders last night. Vast majority from NY/SF/LA. Seed to unicorn.
Not one thinking about leaving. Opposite. Many buying real estate. Planning to build here long term.
Ya know, cause that's what builders do...
"while all of my closest friends out partying,
i'm just here making all the music that they party to"
I always think about this old drake lyric when it's time to build.
Disappear. Build your next big thing. Then re-emerge and show the world why you are the greatest.
I'm having the time of my life building
@MadeWithCapsule
.
Amazing team. Great opportunity. And lately: nonstop momentum.
Makes all the hard stuff worth it.
Looking for a Front-end Developer.
We only hire engineers with impeccable taste.
Typically that means they have some kind of creative expertise or obsession involving design, sound, motion, music, video, art, etc.
You know who you are. DMs open :)
@nikitabier
Generally true, but not in my experience.
@PHHHOTO
had just 5% DAU/MAU in the first 6 months on the AppStore. A year later we were approaching 50% with over 1.5M DAU.
Idea never changed, we just iterated on features that drove network effects.
First LIVE demo of
@MadeWithCapsule
in the books.
Thx
@mignano
and
@lightspeedvp
for having us.
We put Capsule head-to-head against some of the best video tools out there and proved it's...
10x easier.
10x faster.
1000000000x more fun.
VIDEO COMING SOON.
Wow...
@johnmaeda
inspired me to get into tech/design.
Now he's on stage shouting out
@MadeWithCapsule
at his annual Design in Tech talk at SXSW.
Thank you, John!
(thx for the pic
@sandersaar
)
Shopify putting on a masterclass in how to communicate with video.
If I didn't know any better I'd think this was a YouTube star, but it's the President of
@Shopify
.
I call these "Enterprise Creators" and every single person in your company can become one.
@MadeWithCapsule
Shopify Editions is here. The theme: Imagine.
We all need to reimagine our businesses. Tomorrowโs commerce looks different than todayโs - which means huge opportunity for entrepreneurs, enterprise businesses and devs alike.
The future of commerce is being built at Shopify & we
I wore black every single day for 17 years in NYC.
A year in Miami and Iโm dressed like a TikTok tennis instructor.
I donโt know who I am anymore but itโs very comfortable.
Convinced nephew to invest $10 of his own money into a business instead of playing Xbox.
He stood outside in the cold rain and sold apples, donuts and lemonade marked up at 4x cost.
Sold out in 2 hours with $30 in profit.
I think heโs hooked. ๐คฃ
Honestly donโt think Iโd be on my 4th startup without the real friends and family who couldnโt care less if I succeed wildly or fail miserably.
Forever grateful to have that.
Striving to give as much of that back to the world as I can.
NEW: Edit your B-roll footage entirely in Capsule ๐
โ Trim, drag, and scale.
โ Adjust size, volume, and effects.
Upgrade your product demos, customer stories, and social clips with perfectly tuned B-roll ๐
Try it for free โจ
๐จ Next FRIDAY we're dropping Capsule 2.0 on
@ProductHunt
๐จ
To celebrate, we created a limited edition video template for PH Makers to share their stories.
Stay tuned for more videos from the
@MadeWithCapsule
team and a few special guests!
NYC Tomorrow!
Will be doing a live demo of
@MadeWithCapsule
in front of few hundred F500 marketing/brand execs.
One lucky audience member will be called upon for a transformative experience.
Like
@howard
says, "always do risky live tech demos"
If you're going to say your product is 10x better than your competitors, you ought to be able to back it up.
So here's
@MadeWithCapsule
*actually* being 10x faster than our competitors.
(And we're only just in beta)
Steve Jobs really did pay it forward after Bill Hewlett helped him.
In 2009, I had just made my first iPhone app - a guide to vegetarian restaurants nearby.
Jobs was vegan at the time, so I cold emailed him for some help.
He replied.
App got featured.
Thx Steve โค๏ธ
Just pitched a media co with 8 full-time video editors using Adobe Premier to produce 70-100 short videos per day.
We showed them
@madewithcapsule
's new AI Studio (private beta).
With it they can produce the 2x the volume of content with a few interns and no loss in quality.
I've been keeping a record of the times I've experienced product market fit as a founder over the last 10 years:
1 - Dec 2014
2 - Oct 2023
That's it :)
Our incredible engineering team invested 3+ years into building some weird ass video infrastructure.
We're finally seeing the pay off now and it's stunning.
@MadeWithCapsule
Early attempts to build video tools for enterprise didn't go anywhere.
That's changing fast:
@loom
= ~$1B exit
@frame_io
= $1.25B exit
imo we're just getting started.
(chart from
@MadeWithCapsule
pitch deck a year ago)
๐จJob Alert๐จ
Hiring our first FT product designer
@MadeWithCapsule
Dream job designing video tools for millions of people.
- just raised $5M+
- team of 10 insanely creative ppl
- talent + hustle > experience
- Backed by awesome investors in the creative tools space e.g.
This year:
๐จโ๐ป Built a new product living in my parent's basement in VA
โต๏ธ Launched a new startup living on a sailboat in NY
๐ Raised funding living in a condo on the beach in MIA
I will never spend 10+ hours / 5 days week in an office ever again.
I moved NYC > Miami in Sept, while wrapping up a seed round for
@MadeWithCapsule
.
VCs then:
โWhat? Why Miami??โ
VCs now:
โSo Iโll see you at
#miamitechweek
?โ
@JuddLegum
I don't think you understand what is happening. This is not about VCs it about the startups they fund and the people who work at those startups.
our story:
๐จ I'm giving $1000 to anyone who replies with the correct answer...
We recently put
@MadeWithCapsule
head-to-head against 4 others video editors:
- Adobe Premier / AE
- Canva
- Veed
- Descript
We measured how long it took for each tool to make the same exact video.
If