Media entertainment

Magic Hour

Website
Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Magic Hour is a browser-based creative platform and API for generating and editing video, images, and audio. Creators and teams use more than 100 tools, including face swap, lip sync, image-to-video, text-to-video, image editing, and voice generation. Developers integrate the same capabilities through our REST API, official SDKs, and hosted MCP server.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Runbo Li

Founder/CEO

Runbo is the co-founder and CEO of Magic Hour. Previously, he was a senior data scientist at Meta where he worked on numerous zero-to-one consumer social products at NPE (New Product Experimentation).

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

David Hu

Founder

David is the co-founder and CTO of Magic Hour. Previously, he worked as a full stack engineer at Skillz, leading multiple product development teams from Series B to IPO. He worked across the entire tech stack, from user interface down to infrastructure management.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2023 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Hacker News · Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

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