I’m an indie developer, and I wanted to share a small project I built after being repeatedly frustrated by a very specific problem: removing backgrounds from videos.
This started with something pretty mundane. I often record short videos for product demos, tutorials, or social posts. Nothing fancy — just a person or a product in front of a normal background. But every time I wanted to reuse that footage elsewhere, I hit the same wall.
The existing options felt like overkill:
Setting up a green screen just to record a 10–20 second clip.
Opening After Effects or Premiere for what should be a simple task.
Spending more time tweaking masks and edges than actually working on the content.
What bothered me most wasn’t the lack of tools — it was that the tools were optimized for editing workflows, not outcomes.
What I actually wanted was simple:
“Give me a clean cut-out video that I can reuse anywhere.”
No timelines. No keyframes. No learning curve.
So I built a website that does just one thing:
You upload a video → it removes the background automatically → you download the result.
That’s it.
I made a few deliberate constraints while building it:
No requirement for a green screen.
No assumption that the user knows video editing.
No attempt to become a full video editor.
Focus on the quality of the final output, especially edges and subject separation.
In other words, I tried to optimize for time-to-usable-result, not feature count.
Right now, the tool is most useful for:
Content creators who want clean talking-head clips.
People making product or demo videos.
Educators or marketers who need reusable video assets.
Anyone who just doesn’t want to “learn video editing” to solve a small problem.
I’m sharing this here not as a big launch, but because I’m genuinely curious:
Is background removal something you deal with often?
What do you care about most in the result? (edges, speed, formats, batch support, etc.)
If you’ve tried similar tools, what annoyed you the most?
Happy to hear any feedback, criticism, or “this is not actually a problem” takes.
I’ll be around in the comments.
Hi HN,
I’m an indie developer, and I wanted to share a small project I built after being repeatedly frustrated by a very specific problem: removing backgrounds from videos.
This started with something pretty mundane. I often record short videos for product demos, tutorials, or social posts. Nothing fancy — just a person or a product in front of a normal background. But every time I wanted to reuse that footage elsewhere, I hit the same wall.
The existing options felt like overkill:
Setting up a green screen just to record a 10–20 second clip.
Opening After Effects or Premiere for what should be a simple task.
Spending more time tweaking masks and edges than actually working on the content.
What bothered me most wasn’t the lack of tools — it was that the tools were optimized for editing workflows, not outcomes.
What I actually wanted was simple:
“Give me a clean cut-out video that I can reuse anywhere.”
No timelines. No keyframes. No learning curve.
So I built a website that does just one thing: You upload a video → it removes the background automatically → you download the result.
That’s it.
I made a few deliberate constraints while building it:
No requirement for a green screen.
No assumption that the user knows video editing.
No attempt to become a full video editor.
Focus on the quality of the final output, especially edges and subject separation.
In other words, I tried to optimize for time-to-usable-result, not feature count.
Right now, the tool is most useful for:
Content creators who want clean talking-head clips.
People making product or demo videos.
Educators or marketers who need reusable video assets.
Anyone who just doesn’t want to “learn video editing” to solve a small problem.
I’m sharing this here not as a big launch, but because I’m genuinely curious:
Is background removal something you deal with often?
What do you care about most in the result? (edges, speed, formats, batch support, etc.)
If you’ve tried similar tools, what annoyed you the most?
Happy to hear any feedback, criticism, or “this is not actually a problem” takes. I’ll be around in the comments.
Thanks for reading.
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