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Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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So, Adobe Spark? https://spark.adobe.com/

To be fair, as someone who doesn't know what it is, I clicked "Watch Video" on Spark website and that video did not show me what it is and how to use the product but rather some nonsense-story. Story creator website showed me exactly how the app looks like and how to use it right away without having me to click anything. Awesome work, bookmarking it for future use!

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Yes bundled content is a big pain point of mine. My biggest pain points with After Effects. 1. When I want to create a creative video I typically look on Envato for inspiration. Then I pay $30 to Envato on top of the $270 a year for After Effects. Then I have to learn how to install the template or asset. I wanted a marketplace and library integrated with the tool. 2. I also want the After Effects experience to be li…

Envato!? :) Try us https://motionarray.com

Motion Array is great. I followed some of your video tutorials. Lets talk.

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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This is super impressive. Congrats! Would love to know more on the frameworks you used, infrastructure, etc.

Yeah nothing unordinary.

React.js on the FE with a lot of custom components. Used styled components. Used Apollo and zustand.js as global state/cache management.

Node.js with FFMPEG binary as a way to process videos

Prisma2, GraphQL and postgresql for data

Vercel for hosting

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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I completely agree. I'd love to pay for this on a per-seat basis. $50-100/mo/seat seems about right here. I also don't know if including storage in the pricing is helpful. It might make more sense to represent that in time. If this is being sold to users too inexperienced to use AE, then the idea of bitrates and pixel resolutions probably will be foreign to them. But time is something everyone knows and can easily re…

umm... are all these people pushing to increase price serious? I know you want to encourage, but After Effects is "only" $20/mth.

How many people know how to use AfterEffects or can spend time learning it? Its not this app vs After Effects. Its this vs hiring someone who knows to use After Effects.

Or this vs spending time learning to use a professional video editing tool

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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I quit my job over a year ago. Been bootstrapped on savings. I picked up a gig last year and only made $30K in 2019. Hoping my efforts pay off.

I’m sure it will. How long did you spend working in this before the first release?

(Is this the first release)

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Dude this is fantastic. Also you really need to charge more. Start by doubling the prices for all the plans. It's easily worth it and people will pay.

I completely agree. I'd love to pay for this on a per-seat basis. $50-100/mo/seat seems about right here. I also don't know if including storage in the pricing is helpful. It might make more sense to represent that in time. If this is being sold to users too inexperienced to use AE, then the idea of bitrates and pixel resolutions probably will be foreign to them. But time is something everyone knows and can easily re…

Or let people bring their own s3 and pay for the storage and bandwidth themselves. With video bandwidth and storage can kill your cost structure really fast.

Re: Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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Kudos! You have to admire anyone for executing on a launch this well as a solo dev. SaaS products targeting the more casual professional have a huge potential to grow right now.

IMO the killer feature will be the seamless import/export of content from phones to Web UI to social media account. Any platform allowing a frictionless experience in this regard will open the market to the much broader audience, which I think you're well branded for.

I'd love to hear more about your experience building the rendering stack with ffmpeg - and whether or not you recommend using it.

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