Where Creativity Meets AI, Magic Happens
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Our Mission
Magic Hour was born from a simple problem: video creation is hard, and most people never start. We wanted to change that.
The idea was inspired by helping my parents create videos for their hot pot business. Sometimes it took me up to a day to ideate, shoot, and edit a video. When tools like Stable Diffusion came out, I started hacking together ways to generate videos.
What began as a side project turned into something bigger. By posting videos from early versions of Magic Hour, we reached over 200 million people on social.
Our mission with Magic Hour is to take what we've experienced and give it to as many people as possible, so anyone can turn their ideas into economic opportunity.
Our Story
We met in 1997 in China when our moms, who were college roommates and are best friends, introduced us. Our families both immigrated to the US and ended up in Pennsylvania, where we spent time together growing up.
After college, David became a Software Engineer and Runbo became a Data Scientist. In 2023, Runbo asked David to help him productize his AI video prototypes, and soon, Magic Hour was born.
Magic Hour is born out of our experiences helping our parents market their small businesses, where we learned how difficult it is to create engaging video content, and our time in tech building apps for millions of creators, consumers, and gamers.
