Earlier this year my feed was full of AI rap videos: someone's selfie, their cat, or a cartoon character dropping a verse. When I tried to make one myself, it took a whole toolchain: one tool for lyrics, another for the song, a lip-sync app, then a video editor to put it all together. Most "AI rap generators" also stop at an audio file, but what people actually share is a video.
So I built AiRap.me: upload one photo, pick a style, and get a finished rap video back, usually in about 20–30 seconds.
1. Only charge for videos that finish.
AI video generation fails sometimes: a bad photo, a model hiccup, a timeout. Credits are reserved when a job starts and refunded automatically if it fails. Photos that can't work (group shots, faces that are too small or blurry) are rejected before the job starts, so they never cost anything.
2. Show the first frame before you pay.
Your photo becomes the first frame of the video, so you drag and zoom the crop first. You see exactly what you'll get before you spend credits.
3. Async by default.
Generation takes a while, so you don't have to keep the tab open. The finished video waits for you in "My Videos".
4. Privacy.
Uploaded photos and generated videos stay in the user's account and are never used to train models.
While building the video generator I also shipped two free text tools that need no sign-up:
There are also one-click templates for viral formats, like the [Hotel Lobby AI rap trend](https://airap.me/trends/hotel-lobby).
New accounts get free credits, and no credit card is needed:
👉 [https://airap.me](https://airap.me)
I'd love feedback from the dev.to community, especially:
Thanks for reading! I'll reply to every comment. 🙌