Video

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been testing HeyGen’s different avatar tiers for months now — I covered the basics of making talking-head videos without a camera and my batch content workflow — and the single biggest question I get from readers is: “Should I use HeyGen Avatar 3 or spring for Avatar V?” The pricing gap between these two is significant, and HeyGen’s marketing doesn’t make the decision easy. So I ran the same ten scripts through both versions, compared them side-by-side on desktop and mobile, and even showed them to people who had no idea what HeyGen was. Here’s what actually matters. ...

I made a video that did well in English. Got decent views, good engagement, people actually watched it through. Then I looked at my analytics and realized something uncomfortable: over 75% of the world’s internet users don’t speak English as their primary language. I was leaving the vast majority of potential viewers on the table — not because my content wasn’t good enough, but because they literally couldn’t understand it. That’s when I found HeyGen’s video translation feature, and it changed how I think about every piece of video I publish. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Resumes are becoming relics. A Stockholm startup called Fika Jobs just raised $4 million to build a platform where AI agents conduct video interviews with job candidates — real 10-minute conversations, not screening forms. And they’re not alone. The entire hiring pipeline is shifting from text to video, from resumes to recorded conversations, from manual screening to AI evaluation. If you’re a solo builder, this trend affects you twice: once as someone who might hire (or be hired), and once as someone who could build in this space. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been avoiding video for years. Not because I don’t think it works — it obviously does — but because the setup is annoying. Lighting, camera angle, background, re-shooting because I stumbled over a word. It’s a whole production for something that should take five minutes. So when I finally tried HeyGen, an AI tool that turns a text script into a professional talking-head video with a realistic AI avatar, I felt a little stupid for not trying it sooner. If you’ve been putting off video content because you don’t want to be on camera, this is exactly what you need. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I keep seeing tools promise “video creation for everyone.” And then you open them up and realize “everyone” means “everyone who wants to pick from the same 12 templates everyone else is using. Remotion is different — and not because it’s easier. It’s different because it treats video the way the web treats pages: as code. If that sentence excites you, keep reading. If it scares you, keep reading anyway — because understanding this tool changes how you think about video production, even if you never write a line of React. ...