What inspired you to build this? In China, creators have all-in-one AI studios like Jimeng and Kling: generate an image, turn it into video, and edit it without leaving one workspace. Overseas creators who want the strongest models, such as Seedream, Seedance and MiniMax, usually juggle several sites and subscriptions and keep downloading and re-uploading assets. [Add your own moment here, e.g. "Making one product ad meant bouncing between three tools."] I wanted that studio experience for a global audience, with the best models on one board. What problem are you trying to solve? Fragmented tools: MiniMaxVion puts text-to-image, image edit, image-to-video, text-to-video and video edit on one board. Any result can be handed to the next step in one click: image to video, then video into a multi-shot Storyline. Subscription fatigue: most people only need a batch of assets now and then. Credit packs never expire, and memberships are there for steady output. The gap between a pretty still and a finished clip: storyboard sheets, character cards and multi-scene Storylines keep shots and characters consistent from the first frame to the final cut. How did your approach evolve during the launch? Core loop first: in week one we shipped generation, credits, payments and an admin panel, so "top up, generate, get results" worked end to end. Hardening before opening: before launch we fixed data isolation, payment signature checks, the task state machine and reconciliation. Money and data safety came before new features. Production taught us fast: the first real deploy surfaced a dozen issues in a single day. We moved to small commits, shipped immediately and verified in production. Cutting what didn't work: the model catalog follows what the APIs actually serve. Our first storyboard pipeline, which cropped panels into clips, gave poor results, so we removed it and later rebuilt it: the whole storyboard sheet now goes to image-to-video as a shooting reference. From features to growth: once the core felt solid, we built an indexable prompt gallery, tool landing pages, English and Chinese pages, and an affiliate program. Brand and business iteration: we rebranded to MiniMaxVion, moved overseas checkout to Creem, and added memberships alongside credit packs. Today: user feedback and search data decide what comes next. Recent examples are character cards, product photos and indexing fixes.

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Create cinematic-quality images and videos with AI.

Create cinematic-quality images and videos with AI.