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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

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Hi, I'm the maker! I would love any feedback or ideas that you guys have.

Where is the data stored? How is this funded? If out of pocket, why, and how will it be funded beyond that? Would I be unwise to use this with such an unclear future or funding source? Are the videos encrypted at rest with a key as part of the link and never stored? Why not add all of the details about storage, privacy, etc in a clear and upfront way on the website (e.g. a FAQ is fine)?

Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link

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Kind of like youtube? Or am I missing something.

Video messaging without needing a client on the receiving end, and the ability to trivially extract or store the generated video.

Not sure it can be monetized, but definitely cool.

Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link

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I use https://github.com/kaihendry/s3post to upload videos to lambda, convert them to mp4 and share them on a CDN for sharing.

Problem is when uploading from a Webform, IOS downscales the original file which I hate. Does this app get around that problem? If so, be good if I could post to my own S3 endpoint!

Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link

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If somebody sends me a link with the URL "app.getclick.co", there's roughly zero chance I'm clicking on that. Not to dissuade you from your chosen branding, but would it be possible to make your links appear a bit less spammy?

Hmm that’s good. We have been looking at some more straightforward dot coms. Thanks for the feedback!

I recommend avoiding anything with "click" in the name, because that invokes negative connotations of advertising/marketing/SEO.

Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Why did you choose to use React Native if you weren't planning to use it for cross-platform purposes out of the box? Why not use swift or objective-c and then port to Android if there's customer demand?

Re: Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link

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Hey creator, just wanted to say great job. A lot of these Hacker News comments are predictably neck-beardy and lack the recognition of effort and dedication put into a product launch.

Don't listen to the non-constructive "yeah but X already does it" comments. This seems like a simple but useful product, and good on you all for putting this out there. Keep creating and iterating!

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