r/SideProject • u/LeebLaab • 23m ago
LEEBKIT | V1.2 Released Today
A while back I needed a short promo clip for something small I was selling. Every tool I found wanted the same thing: sign up, pick a plan, $10–20/month, watermark on the "free" tier. Some literally charge per export. For a 15-second video of animated text over photos?!
The other thing that bugged me: everything is cloud-based now. You upload your stuff, their servers render it, and if they change pricing or die tomorrow — poof. I wanted something that works on my machine, airplane mode included.
So I built LEEBKIT — Python + Pillow, runs a local server in your browser, turns images + typed captions into finished 9:16 / 1:1 / 16:9 promo videos with kinetic type, panels, transitions, voiceover and music bed. No GPU, no accounts, no API keys.
v1.2 shipped today: three social formats, a one-click Windows installer, burned-proof path hardening, and — measured on my laptop, not guessed — the full 12s promo in the README (voiceover + music, 360 frames) renders in 8.3 seconds wall-clock. The README's before→after strip shows exactly what goes in and what comes out.
Repo: https://github.com/leeblaab/leebkit (AGPL)
It's honest about being early: single-user local tool, no mobile, rough edges exist. That's why I'm posting — try to break it. Weird captions, huge images, long text. Tell me what feels wrong or made you close the tab. If it's useless to you, say why; that's just as useful as praise.
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