Andrew Mason
@andrewmason
CEO of @descriptapp, formerly, @detour, @groupon
We launched AI avatars in @DescriptApp today. If you've seen other AI avatars and felt like "I have know how I could ever put something like this in front of my audience", check out Descript's take. They feel really fun, and they integrate seamlessly into Descript features like…
Avatars are here. You can now create a whole video by typing, without going near a camera. Just write your script, choose an avatar from our gallery (or upload an image to make your own), and boom: you’ve got a video.
hm probably not good if we are getting complements about this - I just want to be average. @burkenstocks please make canceling harder
Every so often you run into an app or service that makes canceling and deleting an account incredibly easy and straight-forward. 👏@DescriptApp
I suspect the "idea guys" we made fun of 10 years ago will still get made fun of 10 years from now. The thing they lack, that AI doesn't necessarily solve, isn't just technical know-how; it's resourcefulness, the ability to "just find a way" to turn ideas into reality. I haven't…
My 11 year old loves baseball - we've been watching lots of player interviews... and ChatGPT has now confirmed what I feared. Is this the general perception, that baseball players are the dumbest of the athletes?
What does this mean? Is this good?
NEW: our June list for the fastest growing software companies on Ramp @tryramp Google’s AI product finally tops our list…for its consumer AI plan. Read why in our full writeup below. Standouts: @DescriptApp @n8n_io @getpostpilot @cartainc
We're reimagining @DescriptApp around agentic vibe editing - lots of talk about Cursor for Video but nothing is close to the truly open experience you get in Descript, go give it a try!
Ready to try vibe editing? Check out our new agentic AI co-editor, Underlord, on @ProductHunt. It puts you in the director's chair—just tell it what to do. And it’s got judgment, so it can make suggestions and give feedback. Cool, eh? Check out the launch at the link below.
Cool @DescriptApp agent workflow thing - after I finished my edit, I just asked it to create a prompt so I that I can paste into my next video and single shot edit it.
gpt image-1 available now in @DescriptApp - unlimited usage for creator+
Vibe editing is here. Any job, any video. Underlord’s got it.
What do I know, but all those people predicting that AI is going to create a bigger wealth/power gap in the short term, I'd bet on that atm. My sense is that not everyone goes through life with a certain kind of sensitivity to noticing problems, and I think the people who do -…
For founders trying to scale, these vibecoding tools feel like being a sober drug addict at burning man - the hardest transition we go through is learning how to stop doing the thing that got us there in the first place - building stuff - and delegating it to our teams.…
I hope this helps move some Descript units youtube.com/watch?v=x30z47… Context: youtube.com/watch?v=9g5SGA…
What would "vibe editing" look like. Well, let's take a look shall we. This is Descript, which was first to release a product that uses AI agents to edit your videos. "The Cursor for Video Editing" they say. And it is. I think by the end of 2025 it will feel alot like…
Getting ready to ship a new AI thing in @DescriptApp that analyzes edit boundaries so it only makes good cuts when you remove filler words, etc.
If you're not doing anything, I'm about to do a live video customer AMA to coincide with @DescriptApp's AI avatar release youtube.com/watch?v=Y_29wP… Now is your chance to ask how to correctly pronounce "Descript" and get an evasive answer!
I didn't see this announced, but now when you ask ChatGPT for feedback, it'll leave comments on your canvas - so cool... and feels like something that's certain to be staple of the emerging interaction language for agentic editors
a kind of silly, but kind of awesome new power for @DescriptApp 's agent underlord alpha: update layer stylings based on vibes. (In tuesday's release - sign up to be part of the alpha here: descript.com/agent)
Was listening to the Lenny podcast w/ the Cursor CEO… TL;DR where he sees programming going is that it’ll look more like you’re writing application logic in natural english language instead of code. Struck me that they’re basically operating on the same belief as us at…
Cool blast from the past - if anyone wants to see what the very first version of @DescriptApp looked like. Thanks for sharing @pitdesi!
This is a cool video, shows you a bit more about how it worked AND the tool that you edited them with, which is now @DescriptApp, an audio and video editing app which spun out of Detour.
Hello! At @DescriptApp we are bought in on AI agents - very pleased to announce something we've been working on for awhile: Our agentic video editor - i.e. cursor for video. Sign up to try it out at descript.com/agent