Magic Hour (YC W24) — AI media creation platform for creators and developers
Magic Hour is a browser-based creative platform and API for generating and editing video, images, and audio. Creators and teams use more than 100 tools, including face swap, lip sync, image-to-video, text-to-video, image editing, and voice generation.
Magic Hour is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2024 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI media creation platform for creators and developers. The founders listed are Runbo Li (Founder/CEO), David Hu (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, December 9, 2023).
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Magic Hour is a browser-based creative platform and API for generating and editing video, images, and audio. Creators and teams use more than 100 tools, including face swap, lip sync, image-to-video, text-to-video, image editing, and voice generation. Developers integrate the same capabilities through our REST API, official SDKs, and hosted MCP server.
Runbo Li
Founder/CEO
David Hu
Founder
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