launchvideo.io is a one-click system that turns a URL or short prompt into a four-minute explainer video by having Opus 5.5 (anthropic/claude-opus-5.5) write the film as code and a serverless agent render it into an MP4. Each job is a single, unedited run: submit input, the model produces HTML/CSS/JS that defines the film, and a headless Chromium + ffmpeg pipeline renders deterministic frames into a 1920x1080, 30 fps H.264 file. Examples show short product videos created from real sites or prompts. Typical jobs use on the order of 100k tokens (roughly 90k input, 15k output) and yield a public blob URL for the finished video.
Architecturally, the system is a single TypeScript agent deployed on OpenComputer that uses three tools - web_fetch (extracts page text, headings, dominant colors, fonts), check_scene (loads the page, reports visible text and JS errors), and render_video (runs Playwright Chromium and ffmpeg, uploads the MP4). Each job runs in a fresh microVM (Amazon Linux 2023, arm64, 4 vCPU, 8 GB, Node 22); a virtual clock replaces requestAnimationFrame/timers so every frame is deterministic. The agent holds no secrets, uses scoped Vercel Blob upload tokens, and is open-source (diggerhq/shipvideo) with a one-click deploy and a documented quickstart.
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