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Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Last fall, during covid-19, I started working on an app to use my iPhone as a webcam for my Mac. I had some interest in it, so I recently released it publicly last month. There are similar apps out there, but to my knowledge my app is the only one that is both 100% free and supports 1080p @ 30 FPS. Hope any of you find it useful: https://webcamplus.app

Does the iOS app speaks a known protocol over USB?

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

#175

Last fall, during covid-19, I started working on an app to use my iPhone as a webcam for my Mac. I had some interest in it, so I recently released it publicly last month. There are similar apps out there, but to my knowledge my app is the only one that is both 100% free and supports 1080p @ 30 FPS. Hope any of you find it useful: https://webcamplus.app

Does the iOS app speaks a known protocol over USB?

For the video stream I am using my own custom protocol, but it is on top of TCP. If that is what you meant.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Thank you! Low-code communities/products makes up a good portion of our existing userbase indeed (Wordpress, Webflow, the like). Webflow, Zendesk, Shopify, Salesforce plugins are planned. We currently have an awesome WP plugin. The other half of our customers are using tools like Gatsby. Here's a blog post from the first month of building the product. Over a year later, lots has changed (I'm also a better writer, sor…

Nice! Glad to hear that! Why don't you get yourself in here? https://university.webflow.com/integrations Will read the link you've added. Feedback for feedback? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/

Webflow - yes, that's the plan! Spending lots of time on documentation currently.

I looked at price unlock. I saw you start with providing an email and backed out, didn't understand what kind of information I'd have to provide or get at first glance. Good idea though.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Does the iOS app speaks a known protocol over USB?

For the video stream I am using my own custom protocol, but it is on top of TCP. If that is what you meant.

Yes. Well I was wondering how hard it would be to support other platforms than Mac. Had it used a standard protocol it could have been possible to plug and play a different virtual webcam provider.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

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Nice! Glad to hear that! Why don't you get yourself in here? https://university.webflow.com/integrations Will read the link you've added. Feedback for feedback? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/

Webflow - yes, that's the plan! Spending lots of time on documentation currently. I looked at price unlock. I saw you start with providing an email and backed out, didn't understand what kind of information I'd have to provide or get at first glance. Good idea though.

Sorry didn't get that fully! What do you mean 'backed out'?

I'm announcing Price Unlock but collecting emails at the end for those that want to be updated.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

#179

I'm building https://pygma.app , a tool to turn Figma files into real websites. Perhaps not quite a side project as I've been spending half of the week on it. Should be launching this week.

I'm currently on Sketch, but been looking at Figma as I like the browser-dependency, as opposed to OS-dependency. Question (and bear in mind I haven't used figma more than 5 min): what do I have to do besides the mockup in order to be able to use Pygma? Looks v cool! P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/

You have to use the auto layout feature within Figma to have a consistent output for now (I intend on relaxing this requirement, but auto layout makes things much easier). But you don't need to do anything external to Figma. There's a plugin (currently in review) and you will be able to manage everything from there.

Will come back to this post to give you feedback later.

Re: Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

#180

I'm building https://pygma.app , a tool to turn Figma files into real websites. Perhaps not quite a side project as I've been spending half of the week on it. Should be launching this week.

Sounds challenging to do well, but very cool concept. Best of luck.

Thank you. It certainly is challenging but it's mostly working.
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