Building a Simple AI Video Tool After Veo 3.1 Lite APIs Became Available

When new AI models come out, most of us do the same thing: We read about them. We watch demos. We bookmark links. And then… we move on. This time, I wanted to do something different. From “Reading About AI” to Actually Building Something When Google started rolling out Veo 3.1 and later lighter variants like Veo 3.1 Lite APIs, it made video generation much more accessible for developers. Lower cost Faster inference More practical for small projects That got me thinking: Instead of just exploring capabilities, what if I actually built something with it? So I did. 👉 https://veolite.net/ What I Built (and Why It’s So Simple) VeoLite is a very lightweight AI video generator. It focuses on just a few things: text to video image to video fast iteration That’s it. No complex editing. No timeline. No heavy UI. Why Not Build “More Features”? Because honestly, most tools already do that. From what I’ve experienced, many AI tools today are: powerful but overwhelming feature-rich but slow to use