Roast Shumai, my open-source Frame.io alternative

Been working on this open-source project for the past few months and figured I'd share it here.

GitHub: https://github.com/shumaiOne/shumai

So, what is Shumai? Shumai is an open-source(MIT), self-hosted alternative to Frame.io. You can upload assets, review them in the browser, leave comments on specific video frames or areas of an image, and share them with your team. You can also easily create share links and add watermarks to shared assets.

But Shumai goes beyond being a Frame.io alternative.

With modern models like GPT-Image-2 and Seedance 2.5, AI can already handle a surprising amount of creative work. You can create or edit images and videos with a simple prompt, without constantly jumping between Photoshop, Premiere, Houdini, and other tools. That’s why Shumai also includes a powerful agent system.

One more thing: I recently introduced Kanban to Shumai, so you can now do project management directly. Of course, it’s not as fancy as Jira, but for small teams, sometimes a simple Kanban board is all you need.

Why did I build Shumai and open-source it?

AI is getting really good at coding. Customizing a high-quality open-source project is becoming much easier. A small creative studio without professional software engineers can ask an AI agent to customize Shumai for their own workflow. With a clear architecture, solid tests, and a detailed AGENTS.md, I want this to be feasible even if you’re not a programmer.

To me, this is also one of the biggest advantages over Frame.io(and, honestly, over many vibe-coded frameio open-source alternatives): Shumai is designed to be easy for AI coding agents to understand, customize, and extend with confidence.

Read-only demo: https://staging.shumai.one

If you like it, please give Shumai a star on GitHub. If you find any bugs, feel free to create an issue, and I’ll fix them as soon as possible.