A solo developer building Katto, an AI video clipper, discovered that a language-model-based proper-noun correction pass was silently renaming an unknown model called "Jev" to the real model "Jamba" a…
Katto migrated its AI dubbing pipeline from Kokoro to Google Cloud Text-to-Speech with Chirp 3 HD, expanding to 19 dubbing languages and 12 curated voices. The developer found that the API swap was th…
Katto, an AI video clipper, fixed an intermittent OAuth failure in its hosted MCP server caused by Cloudflare KV's eventual consistency. The bug occurred when a deposit write and subsequent callback r…
Katto, an AI video clipper built by a solo developer, introduced a second render engine using headless Chromium (Remotion) to make previews match exports, but it worsened drift and slowed exports to 3…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming a standard for AI agents to interact with video clipping tools, enabling users to clip videos directly from chat interfaces like Claude or ChatGPT. A surve…
A solo developer of Katto, an AI tool that converts long videos into short clips, discovered through analytics that the product had 129 organic users despite feeling dead. The developer fixed download…