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Read 'The lean startup' - it has shaped the way I think about building products! With big companies with large budgets bulldozing smaller players - any advice on finding a niche th…

Congrats on shipping this! I went down the same path for videotobe.com, fully client-side with ffmpeg.wasm, and it fell over on longer videos. The memory ceiling and encode times p…

You stop paying for ads and the product link disappears. Reason why founders tend to go for reddit is because it gets indexed by Google and LLMs and the link gets 'preserved'. What…

We run a similar setup in production at VideoToBe – FFmpeg inside Cloudflare Containers with R2 mounted as a local filesystem via FUSE (tigrisfs). On the debate about Cloudflare vs…

Spot on. This tweet will go down in history — right next to Jack's first tweet. We all understand businesses require difficult decisions. This is one of the best layoff letters I'v…

This is a greatly researched article, and the site is just awesome! Kanchipuram Saree has a rich history, and I learned so much more by reading this article. I am intrigued by the …

I'm working on VideoToBe — a audio and video Transcription service with an AI chat layer. Whisper for transcription, then you can chat with your recordings instead of rewatching. A…

VideoToBe.com - Transcription & Chat for Audio/Video (board meetings, lecture notes, churches summons etc.) Started as Pay-per-use service (upload the file and receive an email wit…

It is up now!

Please don’t get a dog just because you’re having an existential crisis. Dogs are lifelong responsibilities.

Thank you! It certainly looks like Rotoscoping. And EbSynth looks amazing! I wonder what model/tech will track the moment so well!

I’ve been seeing a lot of hand-drawn flipbook animations on YouTube/TikTok. For example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ub_ZmzOrh5g The creators say they spend 3-5 days drawing thi…

I use a two-pass approach - first pass with ASR (OpenAI Whisper) and second pass with an LLM. I ask users to provide context upfront and use that as the "initial_prompt" parameter …

Working on https://videotobe.com a audio/video transcription service. VideoToBe started as a user friendly Whisper wrapper — but is evolving into a full pipeline that extracts, sum…

I created transcript for it for anyone wanting to read instead of listen! https://videotobe.com/play/youtube/hS1YqcewH0c

My actual time breakdown as a solo developer: 10% Daily time to learn about various AI tools and improve my workflow. 20% Procrastination (this might be way more than what I'm will…

Personal opinion: Claude code is more user friendly than cursor with its CLI like interface. The file modifications are easy to view and it automatically runs psql, cd, ls , grep c…

Yes. /init will initialize the project and save initial project information and preference. Ask Claude to update the preference and document the moment you realize that claude has …

I am working on VideoToBe.com - and my stack is NextJS, Postgresql and FastAPI. Claude code is amazing at producing code for this stack. It does excellent job at outputting ffmpeg,…

I have barely written any code since my switch to Claude Code! It's the best thing since sliced bread! Here's what works for me: - Detailed claude.md containing overall information…

Your routine seems completely normal. This is Not Youtube addiction and procrastination. You work 8 hours - that's already your productivity. The idea that your personal time also …

Bingo - that is the real reason! If an Agentic requests originate from a server - it is easy for receivers to block the server. Write a browser-plugin and you are playing in somebo…

It seems every one is building AI browser. Perplexity has Comet, Dia. Open AI is build its own. What is business justifications?