Oops we did it again! 🥳 Explain turns Reddit into a TV station 📺

To demo Explain’s power we present to you Reddit TV (redditwatch.tv) which automagically✨ creates short videos of any Reddit post, summarising the discussion. The homepage pulls in Reddit's most popular posts which refresh every 15 minutes and you can also use the search field to tune into the most popular posts from any subreddit (subreddit feeds refresh once per day).  These explainer videos are generated on-the-fly within seconds the first time someone clicks a post and we cache them for instant playback for the next viewer 🍿.

Why we’re doing this

With recent news of Reddit’s $60M renewal deal with Google for it’s AI summaries in turmoil due to Google Overviews supposedly killing traffic to Reddit's site and Reddit’s own inhouse experiments to turn posts into TikTok style videos we thought it a worthy candidate to be “explain-ified”. On TikTok,there are an estimated 19.6 million posts labeled with the hashtag #reddit and another 9.9 million labeled #redditstories. Under the hood Scrimba Explain is LLM agnostic so users are not “locked in” to any one provider and we have the continued flexibility to choose the best possible fit. 

An “unlock” moment

While there are obvious visual drawbacks of using HTML to generate video instead of diffusion models, there are two huge benefits that we lean into: 

1. Speed: way faster to generate than pixel-based videos (just a few seconds from click to playback) 

2. Cost: our current cost per video is ~$0.04. (excludes image generation)

Our hypothesis is that when video creation goes from “dollars and minutes” to “cents and seconds”, it unlocks a broad set of tangible new business cases. 

Learn more

We only beta launched Explain in July and have already blasted past 350,000 explainers. You can try it for free on our site (scrimba.com/explain), with the plugin for ChatGPT, via MCP for coding agents like Claude and Codex (devs are using it to generate accompanying videos for every pull request) and also via the Explain API to create experiences like Reddit TV and HN Watch (https://hn.watch)