Video generation
Tools that make short videos, ads with AI actors, music videos and films.
Video generation holds 10 of the 110 stories on Aiolum: 4 run by a solo founder and 6 by a team of 2 to 10. Together they report US$17M in verified outcomes; the largest is Arcads, US$6M annual recurring revenue, May 2025. 4 headline numbers carry evidence grade A (disclosed or verified), 0 grade B (independent press) and 6 grade C (founder claim). The median story reached its headline number 17 months after launch. The founders are in 6 countries, most often France and USA. The most common main channel is launch sites and deal sites (2 of 10). The tools named most often in their sources are Stripe (9), Next.js (8) and Meta ads (7).
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A web application that turns an idea or a script into a finished video in which no person appears on camera: a script written by a language model, a synthetic voice, stock footage or AI images, captions and music. It makes vertical shorts and horizontal videos of up to 20 minutes, and it can upload to a YouTube channel that the customer connects. Customers pay a monthly or yearly subscription that includes credits. There is no free plan and no free trial.
A developer in Bangalore formed a company with an American YouTuber who already had an audience of people who want faceless channels, so customers paid from the first day. Affiliates receive 33% of every payment and brought about a tenth of all revenue, and Meta ads brought more. Nobody could use the product without paying, so no free user consumed paid AI models. Verified revenue reached about US$85,000 a month for six months, and then fell by half.
An AI tool that writes, makes and posts short "faceless" videos for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels: script, AI images or clips, voiceover, music and captions. It also makes long videos of 8 to 10 minutes, AI UGC ads and talking avatars, and it can rebuild a video that did well for another creator.
It sells a channel instead of a single video: a series picks the topic, makes the video and posts it every day. Growth came from ads and from affiliates who keep 30% of each payment for life, and the founder swaps in new video models when better ones appear.
A web app that writes a storyboard from one sentence, keeps the characters the same from scene to scene, generates each scene with video models rented from other companies (LTX, Kling, Seedance), and lets the user edit and export the film. Users pay with prepaid credits, on plans from US$12 to US$600 a month.
It put the newest video models, among them ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 from 14 April 2026, inside a storyboard editor that keeps characters consistent. Revenue grew from US$645 in May 2026 to US$32,697 in July. Then it fell by three quarters by September, and no source says why.
A web app that creates one AI person, from chosen traits or from 1 to 4 photos of the user, and then generates photos, talking videos, outfit try-ons and product shots of that same person for Instagram, TikTok, ads and online shops. Plans cost US$19 to US$199 a month and include credits that each image or video second uses up.
General image generators make a new face with every prompt, so a brand or creator cannot build a recognizable character with them. This app saves the face once and generates everything else from it. One developer found users through AI directories, free single-feature tools and, later, guides written for search. Credits make the model costs grow with use.
A marketer types a script, picks an AI actor from a library of more than 1,000 or creates a new one, and receives a short video of that actor speaking the script, in the style of a customer's phone video. The same ad can be made again with another face, another script or another language, so the marketer can test which version sells.
The two founders had bought video ads every week for their own mobile app, so they knew the buyer and the price. They sold AI-made ads as a service before they wrote the software. Then they advertised the product with its own output, and software agents did the growth work that a larger company hires people for.
A web application that turns an idea, a link or an existing viral video into a finished short video for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube: script, generated images or video, voice, captions, music and posting. Customers pay a subscription that includes credits, and each second of generated video costs credits.
It began as a tool for product launch videos, which a customer needs once. The founder saw customers use it for social videos, which they need every week, and built a second product for that use from the same code. Free tools that rank on Google and his audience on X brought the customers. Credits priced per second kept the price of each video above the cost of the model that made it.
A web application that turns a song into a music video. The musician uploads an audio file; a feature named Autopilot writes a storyboard, renders each scene with a rented video model and cuts the scenes to the beat. Customers pay a subscription from US$39 a month that includes credits, and buy more credits when they run out.
It began in January 2023 as an easy web interface for animation with Stable Diffusion, when the alternative was an open-source library that only programmers could run. Three months later the founder rebuilt it for one group of customers: musicians, who need a video for every song they release and cannot pay a film crew. He calls this the best decision he made.
A web service that makes a short vertical video from a topic, with a script, a synthetic voice and generated images, and posts it to the customer's TikTok or YouTube account on a fixed schedule, from 3 times a week to twice a day. The customer sets up a series once, and the videos then arrive without more work.
It started in January 2024, when faceless channels were a rising trend and one video took one to two hours of work in four separate tools. The customers were mainly YouTubers, who then promoted the product for a commission, and Facebook ads returned many times their cost. The founder had built two earlier products that passed US$30,000 of MRR.
The customer picks a topic, a video style and a posting schedule. The service writes a story, edits it into a short video and posts it to the customer's TikTok, YouTube or Instagram account on that schedule. The customer never appears on camera and does not have to edit anything.
It sold the whole job, from the story to the posting, and not only a video editor. One paid thread by a known account on X brought the first customers, and creators who used the product then recommended it to their own audiences. One founder built everything on a no-code platform that he already knew from six failed products, so the first version was cheap and fast to change.
A web app that turns a blog post, an article or any written text into a short video with a generated voice, animated titles and stock images and clips, for YouTube, TikTok, other social networks and the customer's own web pages. You paste a link or write in an editor that looks like a text document, and the app builds the video. Today it also plans and publishes the videos to social media.
Content marketing agencies already had hundreds of articles and wanted video without cameras or editors. The company found them with cold email: for each large prospect it turned a recent post from the prospect's own blog into a video and sent it free, which often started a conversation. About six agencies with large contracts paid most of the first US$6,000 a month.
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