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AI Motion Designer
Hera is an AI motion designer that turns 5-hour projects into 5-minute tasks. When you're a YouTuber making an infographic animation, instead of spending hours manually clicking buttons in Adobe After Effects, you can create the same animation in minutes in Hera. Through talking to our users, we realized that 95% of time spent on motion graphics is manual button clicking, not creative work. This insight led us to focus on automating the tedious parts while giving the user all creative control. We launched in May 2025, got 100k waitlist signups in 8 weeks, and we're doubling revenue monthly.
Hera is positioned as an AI-powered motion designer that helps users create professional motion graphics, templates, and prompts for video content such as product launches, explainers, and branded assets. It emphasizes templates, prompts, and a range of ready-to-use assets.
Users describe the animation they want and Hera generates motion graphics or selects from hundreds of templates for product launch videos, infographics, overlays, and explainers. The platform supports creating and remixing animations, using templates, and exporting branded video assets in widescreen formats (16:9) with presets (e.g., 15 seconds).
Who it’s for: Content creators and marketers seeking quick, AI-assisted motion graphics and branded video assets for product launches, explainers, infographics, and social/video campaigns.
Company mentions motion design AI capabilities and a library of templates; no explicit funding, hiring, or traction details provided.
Building Hera to make motion design radically faster and easier. Previously acquired and managed big YouTube channels with +30m subs (e.g., Economics Explained, The Game Theorists).
Building Hera, an AI motion designer. I was the first engineer/employee at Flagright (YC W22), where I built and led core infrastructure from the ground up and scaled it. I was also an early engineer at Vyond, where I built Vyond Studio, an online video editor used by 20,000 businesses today. I hold an MS in Computer Science from National Taiwan University (NTU) and have been working in software engineering since 2016.
Hera is an AI motion designer that turns 5-hour animation projects into 5-minute tasks.
Hera offers an AI-powered motion design tool that lets users describe motion graphics in plain English, then generates and edits animations, aiming to make creating motion graphics faster and cheaper for in-house teams, agencies, and publishers. The launch highlights early user adoption (3,000 users and 15,000 animations in one week) and a waitlist exceeding 100,000 people.
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