What you get
- A 1920x1080 MP4 at 60 fps, 33.8 s (27.6 s lite)
- A working film template timed to voiceover word onsets
- The five-state pill morph from highlight to interface to wipe
- A storyboard with the gag sentence and its two frames, and a seam ledger
- Optional PopNow voiceover, ambient bed and gag sound
Good for
- Features that replace asking, retrying or nudging by hand
- Launch ads with a light, self-aware tone
- Social cutdowns of a feature release
Not for
- Serious or abstract problems
- Products shown for the first time to people who never felt the workaround
- Films without real footage of the feature
How to use it
In Claude or ChatGPT
Use the PopNow skill "Funny Problem-Solution Video" (funny-problem-solution-video) for this: Our editor's new beat track snaps effects onto the beat. People used to ask the assistant to nudge them over and over. Capture is ./captures/beat-track.mp4.
In a coding agent
/popnow-funny-problem-solution-video Our editor's new beat track snaps effects onto the beat. People used to ask the assistant to nudge them over and over. Capture is ./captures/beat-track.mp4.
Then try
Quote an upbeat voiceover and a light bed.
Make the lite cut without the spiral for a short social post.
What to have ready
- The workaround and the feature that replaces it
- One gag in one sentence, and your users' real requests
- A screen capture of the feature working
- Node.js 22+ and FFmpeg
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Questions
Who is the joke on?
Always the old workflow, never the user. The person in the film is polite and reasonable; the tool is what lets them down, and the film admits that about the caller's own product.
Do the requests in the spiral have to be real?
Yes. They come from support threads or chat logs with names removed. If they cannot be sourced, the skill cuts the spiral to three requests rather than inventing a long one.
Why does the voiceover come first?
The narration is the clock for the first half: word groups slide in on the spoken words and the gag hits on the pain word. The skill transcribes the locked read and times the picture to it.
What does PopNow make?
Optionally the voiceover, a light music bed and the gag sound, generated from the silent picture so it lands late with the visual. The proof is always real footage of your product.