# vincentsch/explainroo

> A local tool for making explainer videos and product demos: an agent writes script.md and scenes.js, while Kokoro, Whisper and a canvas renderer produce a narrated MP4.

- Magnitude: 5.8 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 275 total · +256 stars today, ≈ 345 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: JavaScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-09-25 · Last push: 2026-10-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/vincentsch/explainroo · Homepage: https://www.explainroo.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/vincentsch/explainroo

## Useful for

- Make a 60-second explainer video on a topic via Claude Code or Codex
- Build a product demo with screens, cursor clicks and typed input
- Check scene layout and speech recognition before exporting the MP4

## Why it’s here

- 256 stars so far today, about 345 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 6 days old and already has 275 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #47.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Explainroo, Open Source Framework to Make Explainer Videos with Claude” — 5 points, 1 day ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 53 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 49
- Latest release: v0.1.0 (2026-09-30)

## Stars per day, last 12 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-10-01: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 26, 256

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Explainroo, Open Source Framework to Make Explainer Videos with Claude — 5 points, 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908484

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #47

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-01 15:54 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.