Eggnog — YouTube for AI-generated content

Hi YC! We’re Sam and Jitesh, and we’re building Eggnog. We’re on a mission to enable everyone to create, share, and enjoy the magic of AI-generated videos with consistent characters.

Check out the most popular video made with Eggnog - it got 100k views on Twitter in 24 hours! Paul Graham even said it was funny!

AI Videos don’t have consistent characters

AI videos exploded in the past year, and we saw a deluge of content that was funny, spooky, and whimsical. But one thing has held these videos back from really being ready for primetime – AI video creators can’t create scenes with consistent characters.

Creators try every trick in the book to give their wizard the same wizened face from one scene to the next, but no matter, the wizard always looks different.

Inconsistent characters kill so much of the magic of AI videos. It’s hard to get invested in the protagonist of a story if they look different in every scene!

Eggnog

Eggnog gives creators the control to design their characters exactly how they imagine and lets them use those characters in cinematic scenes. This unlocks AI video creation that is immersive with characters that viewers get attached to.

Creators can also use and remix characters made by other Eggnog users, allowing creators to build worlds in a collaborative and social way.

We use a special mix of open-source diffusion models and post-processing to give creators control. Until now, the average creator couldn’t make a truly cinematic scene without a Hollywood budget for actors, sets, cameras, etc. Scenes from Interstellar, Dune, and Jurassic World were impossible to make without millions of dollars and months of time. But Eggnog changes that.

What’s next?

Character consistency is the foundation of entertaining AI video, but it’s only the beginning. We’re excited about a future where users can remix characters and scenes to build infinite storylines.

We’re going to make it possible for viewers to get engrossed in a cinematic universe and then expand on that universe in a collaborative and social way.

Team

We’re excited to empower the most creative people to tell the best stories.

A bit about us—
Sam: BA in Applied Math from Harvard. Previously worked on creator monetization tools at Quora that grew from 0 to $1M ARR in under a year and built an AI assistant for podcasters.

Jitesh: BS, MEng in CS from MIT, trained a language model to generate music lyrics and worked on image models to help pulmonologists. Previously a consultant at McKinsey and PM at Flexport

Asks

Eggnog is live! Make a video, post it on Twitter, and tag @jitsvm and @SamuelMGPlank