Thanks! Several people on our team are actually exactly like you: they don't really use videos themselves for learning, but see the utility for others, and enjoy the technical challenges around building a high-performant video format.

I can’t stand this Silicon Valley trend of having launch videos for features of 2 people sitting in front of a camera but it also shows the camera in the beginning to trick you into thinking “oh they do this so casually haha so fun, look how relatable they are”

I hate all of this - OpenAI, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf etc

It screams detached Silicon Valley tech company to me, and I will never watch a single of them

Indeed. In much the same vein, I simultaneously accept that:

1. I loathe video with the white-hot glow of a thousand angry suns, and loathe LLM slop-digests of things more still.

2. I spend tremendous amounts of time in situations where I can listen but not read, whether driving or on my bike, and this is a legitimately useful way to catch up on HN in those situations.

I hate this too, but I acknowledge some may find it useful.

This should not be judged as a way to read hn, where users reading, it's more of a demo for technical users of their core startup tech.

I still don't like it, I feel it's a very small script with like ffmpeg and an LLM HTTP call, but that same thing was said about dropbox. It's also like 2 years late, so the timing is off.

I'm often negative in the comments of people launching their startup ideas, but I think that's fair, I don't like the atmospheres where we are supposed to pep talk each other and tell ourselves that it's really cool.. and then their project dies while everyone pats them in the back, I think yc is explicitly about that type of nuanced feedback, this needs a pivot as-is.

I concur with only #1.