{"id":97467,"title":"Cardboard - Agentic Video Editor","tagline":"Edit videos at the speed of thought!","body":"**TL;DR**\n\nCardboard is an agentic video editor. It gives you the power of Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve without the learning curve. It is orders of magnitude faster + cheaper than the old way of making videos.\n\nIt lives in your browser and helps you go from a sea of **raw footage** (talking heads, screen recordings, screenshots, B-rolls) to a great video in seconds.\n\nThink of it as “**vibe editing**”\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/xLBxatFM7uk\u003e\n\n**The Problem**\n\n**Video has become the default distribution channel for growth, marketing, and brand storytelling. The teams who iterate fastest on video, compound attention over time.**\n\nMany of us sit on mountains of raw assets - product walkthroughs, customer feedback, tweets, blogs, changelogs, emails, and newsletters - that should turn into **testimonials, launch videos, recaps, and ad experiments.**\n\nBut, editing is **painfully slow**. Getting to a first cut still means hours of manual work, expensive tools, and async feedback loops. This is where the momentum dies.\n\nAs a result, most teams ship far fewer videos than they should - not because they lack ideas or footage, but because the editing process can’t keep up.\n\n**The Solution**\n\n**We are building Cardboard - it is an agentic video editor that lives in your browser.**\n\nYou can:\n\n1. Ask for a first cut (“make a 60s recap” / “cut this into ads”)\n2. Search footage by meaning, not filenames\n3. Then refine it yourself on a timeline\n\nThe goal is to make video production feel closer to modern design / coding tools - fast, accessible, and collaborative - so the teams can iterate fast and ship more.\n\n**Why us?**\n\nWe met in middle school and have been best friends since the last 15yrs. We built Cardboard because we lived with this problem ourselves:\n\n* I create content on [Instagram](http://instagram.com/saksham.awl) and [LinkedIn](http://linkedin.com/in/sakshamagg27), with \\~250k views/month on an average.\n* Ishan (CTO) has been producing Apple-style internal launch videos for HackerRank’s all-hands demo days (350+ attendees) \\[Example: [Video 1](http://share.ishandeveloper.com/video-1), [Video 2](http://share.ishandeveloper.com/video-2)\\]\n\nBoth of us hit the same wall: tools like Premiere Pro or DaVinci are powerful, but the learning curve is steep and getting to a first cut takes hours. Creativity starts to feel like manual work.\n\nCardboard exists to remove those painful steps - so that people can focus on what they’re actually good at: **telling great stories.**\n\n**Ask**\n\nIf you’re leading or working in a **growth / marketing team** that uses video as a distribution channel (launches, ads, recaps, testimonials, or weekly content) and you care about **speed**, we’d love to work closely with you.\n\n\\\nStart using [Cardboard](https://usecardboard.com/)!\n\n\\- [@Saksham Aggarwal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1737031) and [@Ishan Sharma](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/694377) (Cardboard, W26)","slug":"PM3-cardboard-agentic-video-editor","created_at":"2026-02-03T20:33:54.663Z","updated_at":"2026-04-23T08:27:04.140Z","total_vote_count":41,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PM3-cardboard-agentic-video-editor","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":31178,"name":"Cardboard","slug":"cardboard","url":"https://usecardboard.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bd18107dd1d0b70679aef18956a0bd68d03549b0.png","batch":"Winter 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31178"}}