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Each post pairs an AI tool worth your time with a real thing I built using it — tested, timed, and documented. Mistakes and all. Including this website.
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What I learned making my first AI explainer video with HeyGen
I made a 70-second video explaining what Jigg.AI is, with an AI presenter I never filmed — no camera, no face, no voice of my own — using HeyGen. If you want a short explainer and you're starting from nothing, it is an AI tool worth your time: it kept my script word-for-word, looked credible on the first paid render, and took an afternoon. The one caveat: the free tier watermarks everything and caps you at 60 seconds, so shipping means paying — and the avatar I picked left black bars on the plain talking-head shots, which I'd fix next time.
Fresh-viewer clarity 3/3 · avatar/voice natural, no uncanny flags · 15s bake-off decided it vs Synthesia · one afternoon · 70s render · 15s bake-off vs Synthesia
Recent builds
View all →Hardening the email signup endpoint after the bots found itWebsitesRuns on this site
12/13 checks · 1 self-inflicted outage
A support chatbot for Jigg.AI, built with BotpressChatbotsRuns on this site
30 questions · 2 runs · 15 → 26
Building Jigg.AI itself, with Claude Code and AstroWebsitesRuns on this site
one collection → four views