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Launch video skill · huashu-motion

Hand the AI one product URL, and it comes back with a launch video of your real app screens in motion

Add huashu-motion to Claude Code or Codex and give it a product URL or repo link. The AI builds a launch video with your real product screens in motion, then adds background music and sound effects timed to the beat. When the video is done, click the scene you want changed and write one line. The AI fixes only that spot. Scenes are drawn in code, not by a video generation model, so your own screens and logo show up exactly as they are. Here are cases from developers who made promo videos for their own products.

Oct 26, 2026·4 cases

AI磊叔, who makes the Mac clipboard app Echo, entered the product URL and made this 20-second video the day after huashu-motion went public. They wrote that they had the background music redone four times to bring up the drums and the main melody. Source: AI磊叔 on X

huashu-motion went public on October 18. The next day, AI磊叔, who makes the Mac clipboard app Echo, left this comment on the creator's launch post: "来了,给 90 分~ 我的产品地址丢进去就出来了成品,画面的成熟度很高" (Here it is, 90 points. I dropped in my product URL and got a finished video. The visuals are very polished.) The video at the top of this page is the one attached to that comment.

In the eight days after release, people who build watch firmware, a content service, and a document formatting skill also made promo videos for their own products and posted them. The launch post that the creator, 花叔, published on X had 239,747 views and 1,815 bookmarks as of October 26.

Once a video is done, you click the scene you want changed in a preview page that opens in the browser, then write one line. 沐风AI, who makes the iOS app 鲸海语记, asked Claude Code: "用 huashu-motion 给我的产品做一支 60 秒发布片" (Use huashu-motion to make a 60-second launch video for my product). When the video came out, 沐风AI clicked the scene at 18.55 seconds and wrote "这个页面的时候,底部波浪跳动动画速度太快了" (On this screen, the bouncing wave animation at the bottom is too fast). The AI changed a single line, lowering that wave's time factor from 1.2 to 0.45, and left the waves in the deep-sea scene alone because their speed was set separately. The other note asked to shorten the subtitle to 「周报、月报或自定义分析」 (weekly or monthly reports, or custom analysis). 沐风AI wrote: "两条都是在画面上点一下、打一行字,AI 就改对了位置,而且没碰别的地方。" (Both times I clicked once on the frame and typed one line, and the AI fixed the right spot without touching anything else.)

huashu-motion is a free, open-source skill you add to coding agents like Claude Code and Codex. It draws scenes in code (HTML and GSAP) and generates the background music in code as well, not from recorded audio, so the output is plain web files and an MP4.

Reference 01AI磊叔, maker of the Mac clipboard app Echo · X

Six real screen recordings of a Mac clipboard app went in, and the first video came back in under 10 minutes

Three days after huashu-motion went public, AI磊叔 followed up the video at the top of this page, made the day after release, by spending a full day remaking the Echo promo with Codex and gpt-6.1. This time the source material was six real screen recordings of Echo. The first video, without sound, came out in under 10 minutes. Over the day there were 18 rounds of revisions and 15 finished videos. The fastest turnaround from a revision request to a new version was 77 seconds, and a 20-second 1080p video took 17 seconds to render.

About the final cut, AI磊叔 wrote: "成片质量很赞,六段真实录屏加 GSAP 标题转场,利落干净,节奏剪辑的很符合我的口味。" (The finished video is great. Six real screen recordings with GSAP title transitions on top, clean and tight, and the rhythm of the edit suits my taste.) The video shows Echo features such as multi-item selection, Markdown conversion, and calculations, and the post ends with a plug for the app.

Reference 02比特HODL, maker of Jax, an AI assistant firmware for the M5Stack round watch · X

Just a repo link, and back came a finished 46-second promo for a watch firmware

比特HODL turned on huashu-motion in Opus 5.5, sent the link to Jax's GitHub repository, and asked for a promo video made from the repo. The agent paused partway to ask a few multiple-choice questions, then delivered a finished 46-second video. It shows the round watch screen and the repository URL.

比特HODL wrote: "如果手搓的话难度不小,关键是不需要任何提示词,懒人福音啊简直是" (Doing this by hand would be pretty hard. The key thing is it needs no prompt at all. A real blessing for lazy people.)

Reference 03yao, founder of the service Mewyo (mewyo.co) · X

A founder who had never edited video made a 52-second promo for their own service just by chatting with Codex

yao chatted with Codex and used huashu-motion to make a 52-second promo for Mewyo, their own service, which is in private beta. Judging from the screens in the video, Mewyo recommends accounts to learn from, saves them, and plans a publishing schedule. The screens for the video were captured by the AI itself, which opened the web pages using Codex's computer use feature. The video features a cat character and screens for account recommendations, collections, and a publishing calendar, and the final frame shows mewyo.co.

yao posted the video as a reply to the huashu-motion launch post, calling it '交作业' (turning in homework): "我之前完全没有做过产品剪辑,竟然也搞出个一个能看的推广视频了。" (I had never edited a product video before, and I still managed to make a promo video worth watching.)

Reference 04谁是专家, a product strategy consultant who released a skill for formatting Chinese official documents · X

Not an app but a tool that formats official documents, and it still got a 30-second promo showing the process

谁是专家 released a skill that lays out official documents to China's government document standard (GB/T 9704), and made its promo video with huashu-motion. The development tool was TraeCode, and the model was the previous version of DeepSeek 4.1 Flash. The video shows a document being laid out and the skill's repository URL. Of the result, 谁是专家 wrote "效果还不错" (it turned out pretty well).

How people reacted

What people liked

  • “这才是我觉得 AI 做视频最值钱的地方: 不是第一版有多好,而是改第二版的成本低到可以随手改。”

    This is what I find most valuable about making videos with AI: not how good the first version is, but that revising it into a second version is cheap enough to do on a whim.

    Written after making a 60-second launch video for their own iOS app and leaving two notes by clicking on the frame.

    沐风AI · 稀土掘金 (Juejin)juejin.cn
  • “配乐可以自动踩点,这点很省心。”

    The background music lands on the beat automatically, which takes a lot off my mind.

    AI磊叔 · Xx.com

What fell short

  • “但是配乐的旋律,我做了 10 几个版本没有一个过我这关。”

    But the melody of the background music: I made more than ten versions, and not one passed my bar.

    AI磊叔 · Xx.com
  • “机器能查出框和遮挡,查不出"不好看"。”

    A machine can catch things spilling out of their boxes and things getting covered, but it can't catch "doesn't look good."

    The first version passed the tool's own checks with zero errors. But when 沐风AI pulled 18 frames and laid them out on one sheet, four problems turned up, including text overlapping the waves.

    沐风AI · 稀土掘金 (Juejin)juejin.cn
  • “会比较支离破碎一些,系统感不强。就暂时不放出来了。”

    It comes out somewhat fragmented, without much sense of a unified system. So I'm not releasing it for now.

    Said about a video for another of their products, 「辞达」, made with the same huashu-motion but a different model combination (DSH and K3).

    谁是专家 · Xx.com
  • “A successful exit that leaves a 0-byte MP4 makes automated use and error detection unreliable.”

    A report that on Windows 11, the v0.3.1 render command sometimes finishes and leaves only a 0-byte MP4.

    DerWebfuchs · GitHubgithub.com

How to start

Paste the prompt below into a coding agent like Claude Code or Codex. Your computer needs Node 22 or later, Chrome, and FFmpeg. The creator has only tested it on a Mac. In Codex, you may need to approve the preview and the browser launch yourself.

  1. Starter prompt

    Install the huashu-motion skill (https://github.com/alchaincyf/huashu-motion), and tell me first if any required programs are missing. Then read this article: https://www.working-ref.com/en/reference/huashu-motion-2026-10 Ask me for my product's URL or repository link, then suggest three promo videos worth making for that product. When I pick one, start making it right away. If none fits, start with a 30-second launch video.

    By default, a 'Made with huashu-motion' signature appears in the last 1.2 seconds of the video. To remove it, ask the agent to turn it off with data-om-signature="off".

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