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Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

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Post by brudgers »

alexb_ wrote: post #37

This sounds like it would absolutely ruin the internet as a resource for how-to videos. When anyone can use massive amounts of data scraping and underpaid labor to make extremely low quality videos and spam youtube with them, actually half decent how-to videos will get completely lost. Not to mention, you can just put something completely wrong on without making it immediately obvious. Imagine Roel Van de Paar[1] exc…

Then consider the internet ruined, auto generated how-to videos exist on Youtube and elsewhere (probably in much greater numbers than easily spring to mind). I see them from time to time in the long tail. But I suspect mostly the search algorithm deals with spam reasonably.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

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Post by jaggs »

Nice project, congratulations. I think there's definitely a use case, and for those crying 'Youtube spam', it's going to get expensive quite quickly if that's your application. One thing I would say though, is that your pricing could be improved. I would take a long hard look at Loom's pricing. It's designed to encourage both use and virality. Which are both essential to scale up. Don't limit the free trial to 7 days, and increase the number of free videos and time limit. But restrict distribution and make the watermark the motivator to shift to a paid plan. Lots of things you can play with to test adoption and referral.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

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Post by geoduck14 »

mkl wrote: post #48
pbprabhuram wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Omg you completely got it wrong, the focus here is to create support, training and educational videos without spending much money or effort.

Cheap low-effort AI-narrated training videos are exactly the problem alexb_ is referring to. WowTo seems like a good tool for that, so if YouTube spam isn't what you're intending, how would you control what people use it for?

Imagine you are a plumber that needs to onboard new people at your work and they need to know how to do a plumbing thing. Turn over is pretty high and teaching each and everyone of them yourself takes a lot of time - so you make a video.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

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Post by mkl »

geoduck14 wrote: post #53
mkl wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cheap low-effort AI-narrated training videos are exactly the problem alexb_ is referring to. WowTo seems like a good tool for that, so if YouTube spam isn't what you're intending, how would you control what people use it for?

Imagine you are a plumber that needs to onboard new people at your work and they need to know how to do a plumbing thing. Turn over is pretty high and teaching each and everyone of them yourself takes a lot of time - so you make a video.

Sure, but just because good valuable videos are possible doesn't mean it will only be used for that.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

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Post by claviska »

egorfine wrote: post #28
pbprabhuram wrote: post #3

We are eager to announce to the HN community the public release of "WowTo" - software for creating How-To videos. Pain point: Creating How-To videos which can be tutorials, guides, step-by-step walkthroughs or video slideshows are difficult to create with current video editors in the market. Because they target a wide base so either they lack certain much needed features for creating How-tos or becomes complex to edi…

The voices are an instant turn off. How about you provide a service where gag voice artists just dub over the AI generated voices so that the timing of the video stays the same but the voice quality gets immensely better?

Came here to say this. The fake, automated voices are awful and make me immediately turn the video off.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

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Post by replwoacause »

pbprabhuram wrote: post #3

We are eager to announce to the HN community the public release of "WowTo" - software for creating How-To videos. Pain point: Creating How-To videos which can be tutorials, guides, step-by-step walkthroughs or video slideshows are difficult to create with current video editors in the market. Because they target a wide base so either they lack certain much needed features for creating How-tos or becomes complex to edi…

Why don't you have more realistic sounding voices? These sound like that annoying TikTok voice.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

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Post by replwoacause »

andybak wrote: post #49
krageon wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But also right now the quality of the TTS voices is too low in general imo. Most youtube shorts (and I'd wager tiktoks, but I have no idea) have this incredibly irritating generic lady voice in the background. It's definitely artificial, every video has the exact same diction and tone. Clearly this is good enough for most people, so it can be done.

> Clearly this is good enough for most people I really hope the quality improves before I'm forced to engage with such content. It's an absolute deal breaker for me. I can't reach for the back button quickly enough. I'm sure I'm far from alone in this.

You aren't. I hate the voices too. They cause me to disengage with the content instantly.
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