Turn a product URL into a motion-graphics promo reel

A developer built a Claude Code skill that screenshots a product site in headless Chrome, storyboards it and renders a vertical promo video; four demo reels took one prompt each.

Done withClaude Code· Oct 29, 2026

What they did

The poster wanted a short video every time they shipped something but never had time to edit one, so they wrote a Claude Code skill called hype-reel. Given a product URL, Claude opens the site in headless Chrome and captures desktop, mobile and full-page screenshots, decides on the pitch, three features to show and one number, writes a storyboard, and animates it with Framer Motion using a library of 12 scene types. It then renders a frame-exact 1080 by 1920 MP4 with ffmpeg, which npm installs. Voice-over is supported. The skill is MIT licensed on GitHub.

How it went

The poster made four unofficial reels from the public sites of Supabase, Linear, Resend and Cal.com, each from a single prompt plus a check of the still frames. One commenter said it works well. The poster gave no figures on render time or token use.

Worth knowing

Commenters noted a similar open-source project already exists and that a plain prompt in other Claude tools can get close; the author says the skill saves the rounds of fixes. It drives the local Chrome install and needs no API key. Check the stills before rendering, as the author did.

Try it

With Claude Code· 5 parts to fill in

Make a vertical promo video for [product URL]. Open the site in a headless browser and capture the real screens at desktop and mobile sizes. From what you see, write the pitch in one line, pick the [three] features most worth showing and one honest number. Write a storyboard of [8 to 12] short scenes using those screenshots, animate it with [Framer Motion or my animation library], and render a [1080x1920] MP4 with ffmpeg. Show me the storyboard and a still from each scene and wait for my approval before the final render.

Square brackets are the parts to fill in. The prompt is ours; the story is theirs.

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