Hera

Hi 👋 We’re Chia and Peter, the founders of Hera.

TL;DR:

Creating motion graphics is time-consuming and requires complicated software. Hera uses AI to make motion design radically faster and cheaper, helping users create over 50,000 animations to date.

Problem: Motion design is complicated, time-consuming, and expensive

Peter used to build YouTube channels and produced more than 240 videos. He spent thousands of dollars every week hiring motion designers to create infographics, text animations, or map animations.

There he realized that motion design is mostly about mastering complicated software with many buttons, not actual creative work. Here you can see how complicated, tedious, and time-consuming the leading tool, Adobe After Effects, is:

After talking to 130 video teams, ranging from YouTube channels, marketing agencies, and corporates, we learned:

1. There is no alternative to After Effects to create professional motion graphics.
2. Mastering After Effects takes years and watching countless tutorials/courses.
3. Hence, video teams hire expert motion designers.
4. And even for expert designers, it can take hours to create seconds of motion design.

Solution: Hera fills this gap by making motion design fast & easy

https://youtu.be/NFRllovZQS0?si=0gxZ2T4xQpTZrww6

Start by describing your motion graphic in plain English

You can tweak it as you like with on-canvas editing

Pick an already created animation from other users and customize it

Create your custom brand kit and all your animations will stay on-brand

Customers: Everything changed the day we couldn’t stop people from using Hera

Two months ago, we launched Hera to creators in our network. People started talking about Hera on the internet, and we got 3,000 users who created more than 15,000 animations within one week.

Today, we have more than 100k people on our waitlist asking for access (and some are even selling invite codes).

Our Ask: If you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:

• Do you produce video content in-house and either already incorporate motion graphics or would like to incorporate motion graphics?
• Can you introduce us to marketing/advertising agencies that focus on creating video advertisements?
• Can you introduce us to video publishers (e.g., traditional publishers, YouTube channels, influencers) who might be interested in making motion design faster and cheaper?

Skip the waitlist and try out Hera today: https://hera.video/join/yc

👉 Contact us at peter@hera.video

Your help can make a huge difference. Thank you!

Team: We know our customers and tech inside out

Peter acquired and built leading YouTube channels with +30 million subscribers at Lunar X (e.g., Economics Explained, Game Theorists). He produced +240 videos and spent thousands every week on motion designers.

Chia was one of the first developers at Vyond, a leading video editing solution, where he built Vyond Studio, a full-featured, drag-and-drop online video editor that is used by 20k businesses today.

We have been friends for 5 years and decided to build something together last summer.