Most developers assume that only well-funded teams with 10+ engineers can build something meaningful.
But sometimes, a tiny team with the right motivation can ship something surprisingly big.
We’re a 3-person indie team:
one university student who shoots short-form videos,
one part-time developer,
and one friend who handles visuals and copy.
No investors.
No office.
No fancy roadmap.
Just a shared frustration:
Creating videos with AI shouldn’t require 10 different tools and endless context-switching.
That idea eventually became Textideo.com.
🚇 The first version was literally built in cafés, trains, and convenience stores
We didn’t start with a perfect product plan.
Our prototype UI was built in a café.
The backend was debugged in a late-night 7-Eleven.
Our first successful video output happened on a train ride.
It was scrappy. It was messy. But it worked.
And from there, Textideo started to grow into something we ourselves wanted to use every day.
🎬 What Textideo does (and why it helped us ship faster)
As creators and developers, we got tired of:
switching between 5+ AI models,
pasting scripts back and forth,
managing timelines in different tools,
and dealing with browser-breaking tabs.
So we focused on one idea:
Put all major AI video & image models in a single editor.
Let creators generate, edit, and export in one place.
Today, Textideo supports:
✔ Multiple AI video models inside one timeline
(Sora-style models, Veo 3.1, Luma, Wan 2.x, and more)
✔ Script → asset → edit → export in one editor
No more tool-hopping.
✔ Zero learning curve
If you can write a sentence, you can generate your first clip.
✔ Free credits for new users
So you can try it without committing.
None of this came from a big roadmap — it came from our personal pain points as creators and engineers.
🧩 Small teams have an unfair advantage
A 3-person team can do things big teams can’t:
No endless meetings
No approval layers
Fast decisions
Immediate shipping
A user sends feedback?
We can patch it the same night.
A small improvement idea comes up during lunch?
We can deploy it in an hour.
We can’t compete with big companies in resources,
but we can compete in speed and focus.
And that’s how a tiny team shipped a tool bigger than ourselves.
🧑💻 If you’re an indie dev, student, or creator…
I want to be honest:
We built Textideo because we needed it — a tool where:
we could test multiple models fast,
we didn’t have to juggle 10 tabs,
and we could finish videos without friction.
If you’re building something alone or in a small team,
I think you’ll understand the feeling.
And if Textideo helps even a bit with your workflow —
that’s already the biggest win for us.
🎁 Want to try it?
We offer free credits for new users:
👉 https://textideo.com
No subscriptions required.
No complicated setup.
Just start building.
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