Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
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Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
#2Hi, I'm the maker!
I would love any feedback or ideas that you guys have.
Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
#3Hi, I'm the maker! I would love any feedback or ideas that you guys have.
What languages did you write it in? What stack did you use for your backend? What format is video stored in? What format is it played back in (ie, real video or chopped up video like HTS/DASH)? Can I users get access to direct video file links? How much does bandwidth cost you? Did you chose to use an existing CDN or roll your own? Is this only for Apple (tm) smart phones? Is it only for smart phones?
How do you intend to make money?
Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
#4Hi, I'm the maker! I would love any feedback or ideas that you guys have.
What languages did you write it in? What stack did you use for your backend? What format is video stored in? What format is it played back in (ie, real video or chopped up video like HTS/DASH)? Can I users get access to direct video file links? How much does bandwidth cost you? Did you chose to use an existing CDN or roll your own? Is this only for Apple (tm) smart phones? Is it only for smart phones? How do you inte…
Great questions! We learned a ton doing the video work on this never having worked with video encoding before.
We built front end using React Native (ejected from Expo), backend API using Rails (as that's our most comfortable stack). The video encoding processing is handled by Amazon Elastic Transcoder, hosting the videos on s3.
There's a sneaky amount of transcoding involved in the simple app, but it's all cheap at a few dollars a month so far with some use.
We're not using a CDN atm but are looking at using cloudfront. Right now it's only on Apple phones, but since we build the front end in React Native building for Android is on the roadmap if there's customer demand!
Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
#5At least on the few browsers I tried, your privacy policy[1] is white on white for much of the text.
Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
#6Looks really interesting. Are there any plans for an API or something like integration with IFTTT? Would love to be able to automate the process of capturing a video and having the link directly emailed to me or added to todo list.
Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
#7At least on the few browsers I tried, your privacy policy[1] is white on white for much of the text. [1] https://app.getclick.co/privacy
Thanks for catching that, we will fix that ASAP!
Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
#8Looks really interesting. Are there any plans for an API or something like integration with IFTTT? Would love to be able to automate the process of capturing a video and having the link directly emailed to me or added to todo list.
Would love to talk to you more about this use case. Can you email me at george [at] stilllife [dot] studio
Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
#91. The app reliably crashes if I just tap on the screen and then click Done.
2. Why does it need registration? At this point I don't see any benefit from it.
3. Is there a way to delete videos? Or the whole account? Do the videos get deleted automatically after some time?
4. Is anything uploaded before the Done button is clicked?
Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link
#101. The app reliably crashes if I just tap on the screen and then click Done. 2. Why does it need registration? At this point I don't see any benefit from it. 3. Is there a way to delete videos? Or the whole account? Do the videos get deleted automatically after some time? 4. Is anything uploaded before the Done button is clicked?
Sorry to hear that it's behaving badly for you. Happy to delete your account manually since we don't have any of that built in at the moment. Feel free to email me at george [at] stilllife [dot] studio with the email address.
Registration is useful for future features (like having an index of all your videos for example if you wanted to delete some of them)
Videos are supposed to get uploaded before hitting done to increase performance, but if it's crashing I'm not sure they uploaded succesfully.