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next eight seconds

An Instagram channel where the audience writes a story and AI films the next eight seconds daily.

Status

Live

Years

2026

Links

nexteightseconds.web.app · @nexteightseconds

What it is

Every afternoon the top comment becomes the next chapter. A moderation gate and a cinematic prompt feed Veo, seeded with the previous clip's last frame so the same character carries the story forward. The Reel publishes itself with a caption crediting the commenter. A public storyline page shows the vote leaderboard and a countdown.

What was hard, or unusual

• Two gates stay in every version: a moderation filter and a human approval step until many trusted cycles have passed. Dry-run is the default.
• Strict isolation from my other Meta apps, down to prefixed function names and secrets, so an App Review on one product can never entangle the other.

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