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Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

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Post by necula »

tome wrote: post #53
AlexMuir wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't really share conversion stuff yet. But one interesting observation off the top of my head is that my customers MASSIVELY prefer paying with Paypal to Stripe, even though I deliberately steer them towards Stripe. It was a massive pain to implement Paypal and I hated every moment of it but it produced an uptick in payments.

> customers MASSIVELY prefer paying with Paypal to Stripe That's interesting. Do you have a theory about why that is?

I just paid for this using Paypal. I prefer paying straight from my bank account rather than using a credit card. My debit card (Dutch pin card) cannot be used for online payments, but Paypal is connected to my bank account. Is Stripe able to do something similar?

Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

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Post by pingec »

laurencei wrote: post #19

IMO what is really clever about this is that it is a "sales" video - except you dont realise you are being sold to until the end, by which time you've enjoyed the video so much, the pitch at the end is reasonable. And you've shown what the value is long before I asked myself the question "how much" - which I usually ask early in the process - but not here. At least that is how I found it... great work. Would be inter…

Interesting, what I got out of the video is that they seem to use Unior tools and in fact I thought it was an ad for Unior at the beginning of the video.

Might have something to do with the fact that I have been considering Unior tools for a long time now but always postpone (because of the price).

Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

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Post by rwieruch »

AlexMuir wrote: post #29
laurencei wrote: post #19

IMO what is really clever about this is that it is a "sales" video - except you dont realise you are being sold to until the end, by which time you've enjoyed the video so much, the pitch at the end is reasonable. And you've shown what the value is long before I asked myself the question "how much" - which I usually ask early in the process - but not here. At least that is how I found it... great work. Would be inter…

I can't really share conversion stuff yet. But one interesting observation off the top of my head is that my customers MASSIVELY prefer paying with Paypal to Stripe, even though I deliberately steer them towards Stripe. It was a massive pain to implement Paypal and I hated every moment of it but it produced an uptick in payments.

Do you have any numbers on conversion rates of Stripe vs Paypal?

Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

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Post by Ecio78 »

edpichler wrote: post #62
AlexMuir wrote: post #3

It took 2,500 photos and 4 days to shoot, followed by about 8 days of photoshopping & grading.

You owns the course or you just did the stop-motion?

judging by his username and the intro the videocourse https://www.howacarworks.com/video-course I'd say the former

Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

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Post by ddorian43 »

AlexMuir wrote: post #14
Dowwie wrote: post #12

This is beautiful. Love the synthwave soundtrack :) Where is the Reddit post of this? You're going to front page, for sure.

I'd never even heard of synthwave before I did spent 5 hours on Audio Jungle trying to find good music for this video. Now it's all I listen to while I'm coding.

You have subreddits, youtube channels and facebook groups where you can find new music.

Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

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Post by AlexMuir »

pingec wrote: post #72
laurencei wrote: post #19

IMO what is really clever about this is that it is a "sales" video - except you dont realise you are being sold to until the end, by which time you've enjoyed the video so much, the pitch at the end is reasonable. And you've shown what the value is long before I asked myself the question "how much" - which I usually ask early in the process - but not here. At least that is how I found it... great work. Would be inter…

Interesting, what I got out of the video is that they seem to use Unior tools and in fact I thought it was an ad for Unior at the beginning of the video. Might have something to do with the fact that I have been considering Unior tools for a long time now but always postpone (because of the price).

Unior provided the tools for this course. They really are great quality - and run by real people who are proud of what they make. I went to their factory in Slovenia where they make 99.9% of everything they sell. We talked about making the series and they saw the potential in it and supported me when it really looked a risky bet. I'm very happy to advocate their tools because they are genuinely good, European-made and backed by proper engineers.

Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

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Post by nimrody »

Beautiful work!

It's nice to see something that was designed with maintainability in mind. Designed to be disassembled, repaired and re-assembled later. Impressive engineering.

So different from most consumer products sold today which never use screws and are not designed for repairing. If it breaks down you're expected to buy a new one...

Re: Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

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Post by ddorian43 »

Dowwie wrote: post #18
AlexMuir wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd never even heard of synthwave before I did spent 5 hours on Audio Jungle trying to find good music for this video. Now it's all I listen to while I'm coding.

check these out :) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9-TEHjUbA 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kF7u3tWlns

Mirror for Backbone of the night: https://dadmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-construct
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