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MakeShort
Turn Reddit stories and fake chats into viral Shorts with AI
Short-form creators often spend more time editing than testing ideas. MakeShort.ai removes that bottleneck by turning Reddit-style stories, fictional chat conversations, and scripts into polished vertical videos with narration, captions, and ready-to-post formatting. It is built for creators who want to move from idea to published Shorts faster.
I’m the maker of MakeShort.ai. I built it because short-form creators often have more ideas than editing time.
MakeShort.ai helps turn Reddit-style stories, fictional text message conversations, and short scripts into vertical videos for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels. It adds AI narration, captions, visual layouts, and export-ready formatting so creators can test more video ideas without spending hours editing each one manually.
The first use cases we focused on are:
- Reddit story videos
- Fake text message videos
- Faceless Shorts workflows
- AI-assisted script-to-video creation
I’d love feedback from creators, marketers, and anyone making short-form content: what would make this more useful in your workflow?
How does it handle voice cloning or choosing the narration voice, and is the voice library built-in or do you bring your own?
The Reddit story to short workflow actually works better than I expected. Caption timing synced up with the narration on the first try without me fiddling with anything.
The idea-to-video flow feels genuinely fast, I dropped in a Reddit thread and had a usable short in minutes. Wish the caption styling had a few more options but the narration quality surprised me in a good way.
Punched in a Reddit thread and got a usable vertical video in like two minutes, the captions lined up way better than I expected for a first pass. Curious how it handles longer scripts though.
The auto-captioning with that clean vertical layout is genuinely smart execution, you can tell the team actually thought through what creators need during that frantic publish window.
how does it handle the voice side, like do i pick from a set of ai narrators or can i upload my own and have it sync everything around that?
The built-in narration and caption pipeline is genuinely smart, so much of the tedious layering work just disappears from the editing flow.
How does it actually generate the narration and visuals for the chat-style stories — is it pulling from a stock library or something more custom, and do I get to tweak the pacing before it spits out the final video?
About MakeShort on Product Hunt
“Turn Reddit stories and fake chats into viral Shorts with AI”
MakeShort was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #151 on the daily leaderboard. Short-form creators often spend more time editing than testing ideas. MakeShort.ai removes that bottleneck by turning Reddit-style stories, fictional chat conversations, and scripts into polished vertical videos with narration, captions, and ready-to-post formatting. It is built for creators who want to move from idea to published Shorts faster.
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