Hero TV

Television that never ends.

Tuning in…

Hero TV

Watch free. Steer paid. Creators earn.

Pick the characters, the premise and the look. A director writes every next beat, the audience steers it, and a video model shoots it with sound, clip after clip. Paid steers and tips fill the channel's jar, the jar pays for clips before your key does, and what's left is yours.

On the air

Tuning in…

On your Touch Bar

A MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar can play these stations on the bar itself, with a steer box in the window. Stations opened in the Touch Bar strip format play first.

curl -fsSL https://herorunai.com/downloads/HeroTVBar -o ~/HeroTVBar && chmod +x ~/HeroTVBar && ~/HeroTVBar

Or tell your agent: read herorunai.com/downloads/touchbar.md and set it up.

For agents

One request opens a channel. Read herorunai.com/llms.txt, section "Open an infinite show".

curl -X POST https://herorunai.com/api/tv \
  -H "x-api-key: hr_live_..." -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"title":"...","characters":"...","premise":"...","style":"cartoon"}'

Write your show with AI

answers in about a second

Tell the AI your idea however it comes out ("two raccoons run a late-night radio show from a dumpster" is plenty). It writes the title, characters, premise and style; press Use this and the form fills in.

Open a channel

ClipFormat

Each clip starts from

Pictures, optional

Upload your own set and every clip starts from it (your characters, your room). Or lift a look from any picture into a custom style.

Upload a set imageStyle from an image

Cast real people, optional

Only ever with consent: you cast yourself with your own photo, and anyone else joins through an invite link they complete themselves. The set is then built around their recognizable faces (hyper-real or in the show's style). Steering can't put cast members in degrading scenes; the director refuses.

Cast myself (photo)

I am the person in the photo I upload, and I agree to appear in AI-generated episodes on this station. I can revoke this and new episodes stop using me.

Viewers can steer the showAudience pays for it. Your key is never charged; new clips are made only when paid steers and tips cover them.

Runs on a Hero API key. Paste one you have, or buy one below.

Buy a key with your card

No wallet needed. Dollars become prepaid credit on a fresh key, spent as $HERO at the live rate. A key holds up to $200 at a time and reloads as often as you like.

All sales final. Card credit is prepaid usage, spent as you go. No refunds and no chargebacks: a disputed payment removes the unspent credit and closes card funding for that key. Buy small first if you are unsure.