ShotMaker: AI Video Production Tool

ShotMaker helps organize generative image and video projects, preserving visual style and character consistency across generations. The workflow is built for narrative storytelling with distinctive visual style for characters, objects, and sets. Powered by Google Gemini and Veo (free Google AI Studio account required for use). Could I have called it SlopMaker? Yes, I could have, and you're more than welcome to. https://shotmaker.app https://apps.apple.com/app/shotmaker-video/id6758589534

Humans in the Loop — A free community for people who love using AI to ship faster

A free community for people who love using AI to ship faster

First Product Hunt launch! In November 2025, I decided to make an AI-generated music video for a hackathon. I had always wanted to make movies, so why not take a shot and do something creative. The video consisted of nine core characters, tons of shots, and one semi-coherent narrative. It can't be that tough, right? Boy, was it. Every generation was like making a wish and hoping it would come true. A character who looked perfect in a reference image would come back with different body parts or facial features in the video. Locations would change when briefly off camera. Random objects would pop into the scene out of thin air. Not to mention keeping a bunch of characters visually consistent across an entire video meant fighting the tools every step of the way, and burning through a lot of credits. But somewhere in all that chaos, a workflow started to take shape. Reference images with structured prompts. Style guidelines built into the prompt formats. The ability to craft structured prompts that carried visual DNA from shot to shot. By the end of the project, I wasn't just making a video — I'd figured out a pretty reliable system. That system became ShotMaker. I figured if I had a shot at makign AI video actually work for storytelling, I should try to it into something other creators can use to bring their ideas to life. The result is a tool that helps you build a visual language for your project, and then use that language to create consistent images and videos. Is it perfect? Not even close. AI generation is still unpredictable, consistency is still a battle, and there are days the tools feel like they have a mind of their own. But it's a real leap from where things were, and the underlying technology is improving quickly. The workflow that took me weeks of trial and error to work out will only get more powerful as the models improve. — Aaron, Creator of ShotMaker

Congrats on the launch
For creative workflow tools like this, a short demo video showing how someone goes from idea → planning → final shot setup can really help visitors instantly understand the value and speed of the tool.
I specialize in SaaS/product demo videos, so I always notice this looks like a really useful product for visual creators. Wishing you a great launch!

@growthfilmstudio Thank you! A demo video is in the works! I was stuck in App Store purgatory for a while and wasn't sure when things would actually become available.

Humans in the Loop — A free community for people who love using AI to ship faster

A free community for people who love using AI to ship faster

@growthfilmstudio Thank you! A demo video is in the works! I was stuck in App Store purgatory for a while and wasn't sure when things would actually become available.