captioncat
Quiet signalscroll-stopping captions for creators and their agents
Launched 1d ago
Signal
20
Velocity
0
What this means
50%Vote pace is below typical for Design Tools.
Running at 50% of comparable launches.
19Founder Conviction Index: 19 — low signal.
Few of the conviction sub-signals (reputation, velocity, buyer-intent, tagline clarity) are firing yet.
3.0×Founder historically performs 3.0× the median launch we track.
Best prior launch: gg-friggin-ez, attention 90.
Prediction
Top-5 finish probability
3%
today
Projected end-of-day votes
3range 2–4
Trajectory
stable
Vote pace holding steady.
Speed vs peers
0.5×
10 Design Tools launches
About
turn video or audio into share-ready clips with expressive, scroll-stopping captions. use captioncat yourself or with your ai agents to transcribe, design, and render captions for podcast clips, talking-head videos, storytimes, news clips, reels, tiktoks, youtube shorts, vlogs, karaoke videos, and more. start with 36 handcrafted presets or create your own in preset studio. free and open-source.
AI Summary
Captioncat is an open-source tool that converts video or audio into share-ready clips with customizable captions. It offers 36 presets and allows users to create their own, catering to various content formats like podcasts, vlogs, and social media videos.
Attention & discussion velocity
Performance
Velocity0
Vote pace vs average
Momentum0
Sustained over 6h
Virality0
Spread × engagement
Engagement—
not measured
Editorial read
Scored deterministically. Only candidates that fire a story trigger are sent to a model, so this one has no written angle.
InvestigateRanks high on little evidence. Worth a look, but verify before committing.
166/8
Founder story
Shikhar Srivastava before this launch: 2 previous launches, best of them notable.
Timeliness5%95
carried 6%
Novelty15%70
carried 18%
Founder10%39
carried 12%
Trend20%32
carried 24%
Story20%23
carried 24%
Business15%5
carried 18%
Not measured · 2 of 8
Revenue10%—
Cross-platform5%—
Gaps in our data, not findings about the product. Their weight is redistributed across the 6 we did measure.
measuredmeasured, zeronot measured
Full audit →Signal sources
3 of 6 active- Launch tracking10 readings since we picked it up
- AI analysisDesign Tools
- Comment intelligencethread not yet analysed
- Outside discussionnot checked — domain is a storefront or shared
- Revenue signalsno match on this domain
- Editorial scoring12% evidence coverage
A source that found nothing is a measurement. A source that has not run is a gap. Neither means the launch lacks the thing.