$33.49 Claude-made hype video remake landed a $450k deal — full open-source pipeline
zealcaiden · x · 2026-10-21
The author remade a viral 30-second LeBron hype video shot-for-shot with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis in the lead, directed with Claude over a weekend for $33.49 — and landed a $450k deal. Everything is open:
- The whole process is one Claude skill (restyle-reference-video), works in any agent, currently best with Opus 5.5
- Every search, prompt, model, dollar and line of code is in the repo github.com/zealous1/dylan-patel-hype-video
- Recipe listed on aimv.gg; interactive storyboard side-by-side with the original at zeal.is/directing/dylan-patel-hype-video
The workflow: watch drafts and give one-line feedback — a full 'director-style' AI video pipeline.
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