Remotion
Hacker ApprovedProgrammatic video library in Developer tools
Lets developers build videos programmatically with React, useful for data-driven or templated videos; critics find rendering heavy and markup limiting for complex motion graphics.
Lets developers build videos programmatically with React, useful for data-driven or templated videos; critics find rendering heavy and markup limiting for complex motion graphics.
26 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 20
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 77%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 20 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Looks better than generative AI video
“remotion based videos look much better imo since it can code much better than it can prompt”
Comment from 16 Jul 2026 in “$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol” “Remotion based videos feel better to watch than just actual GenAI videos”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “Fable 5 made a Fireship Video for GPT 5.6 Sol” Reliable for AI-generated videos
“There are useful remotion skills that allow you to reliably generate specific types of videos”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Agent Skills” “from that I generated Remotion videos. It worked quite well”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “Fighting Cognitive Debt in Agentic Code with Video Overviews” “remotion.dev + fable 5 one-shotted the launch video”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “I turned my LinkedIn tool with 2M DMs sent into a governed LinkedIn MCP apex.new” Handles traditional editing tasks
“An inhouse video & image editor (imagine canva QOL goodies & premiere timeline) with remotion for my physical D2C brand.”
Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: What cool stuff have you all been using Fable 5 for?” “I've been impressed with how much traditional video editing I can manage.”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Heavy CPU and resource use
“Found my Dev boxes maxing on their resources when rendering with remotion and hyperframes.”
Comment from 30 Oct 2026 in “Agentic Animation Tool – think After Effects for your agents” “the performance and overhead is significant”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM” Limited for complex motion graphics
“declarative markup is not a great language for motion graphics beyond anything very basic”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor” “it was a non-starter for me because it only supports canvas-based components”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RemotionThis page | 20 | 6 | 77% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Hyperframes | 7 | 1 | 88% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
25 of the 28 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it's helping compose scenes, where the local CPU then renders the video”
“Found my Dev boxes maxing on their resources when rendering with remotion and hyperframes.”
“which are then rendered with Remotion”
“emulated our product design to the T”
“those are excelent libs you should try”
“remotion based videos look much better imo since it can code much better than it can prompt”
“Remotion based videos feel better to watch than just actual GenAI videos”
“remotion.dev + fable 5 one-shotted the launch video”
“An inhouse video & image editor (imagine canva QOL goodies & premiere timeline) with remotion for my physical D2C brand.”
“There are useful remotion skills that allow you to reliably generate specific types of videos”
“ended up using Safari for rendering (instead of remotion's chrome-based rendering)”
“There are tools to edit PPTs and movies with React.”
“I tried Remotion to generate video for my landing page.”
“Remotion was great for that.”
“the performance and overhead is significant”
“it was a non-starter for me because it only supports canvas-based components”
“not sure it's the right fit”
“declarative markup is not a great language for motion graphics beyond anything very basic”
“it was one of those projects that made me think differently about video on the web”
“It's powerful, but it also feels a bit far from how I like to work.”
“from that I generated Remotion videos. It worked quite well”
“Tried remotion when the tweet came out but the results I got were pretty mediocre”
“Since it’s React-based, it works well for data-driven or templated videos”
“they're very powerful, when you put them together”
“I've been impressed with how much traditional video editing I can manage.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.