Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio and video converter

Post by bl4ckneon » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 3:58 PM UTC

otts_boris wrote: post #19

Extremely convenient. Nice to see WASM is enabling such use cases. It's crazy how many online converter websites and none of them are good (ads, paid features, etc.). My recommendation: think about PDFs. A lot of space for disrupting existing conversion websites there when it comes to speed, privacy, UI/UX. Not even anything complicated: splitting, combining, rotating, compressing, etc.

Post by MzHN » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 5:05 PM UTC

numbsafari wrote: post #8

I wish pages like this had a way to specify, in the HEAD tag, that they are to be run in an additional sandbox with zero network access. That way, the user agent could render them in a special way to indicate to the user that it is safe to share data with the app. Because nothing is stopping this app from updating its code after a few weeks in order to begin shipping data. Of course, you can download the page and the…