Wonderful. You just "created" this?! This seems like it took many years and lots of hours. Great work!
Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
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#172I really hope you charge money for it and make it awesome, it's about time Adobe gets disrupted and this is a wonderful idea! It will take significant resources, cash and teams to make this into a serious contender, and folks that have problems to solve will always be happy to pay decent dollars for great software.
He's clearly trying to follow the photopea playbook and make money through ads
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#173Wow! This is wildly impressive and deeply inspiring - a truly incredible achievement. Even more unbelievable that it's by a solo dev. Please keep up the amazing work on this project. AE is powerful and feature rich but also bloated with decades of legacy code and niche professional use cases to support, so there's a huge need for what you've built. Not everyone is a high-end animator or special effects compositor. Many of us just want to make cool motion graphics for personal videos, social media and art projects.
Based on the great response you've gotten so far, I'd suggest focusing on ways for the community to expand on what you've built with templates and plug-ins.
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#174Just curious - why not open source?
(really cool btw, super impressive)
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly there’s 2 situations: - if the tool is updated continuously for 15 years it’ll still be up - if it’s not updated, it will be technically irrelevant anyway and you’ll have switched to another tool by then Future support is overrated for tools, just use one now and worry about tomorrow later.
Winamp would like to have a word with you :) Granted I'm using the latest release from 2018, but I still sometimes load up v2.x released in 1998 just to show people that 25+ year old software still works just fine... even the AVS visualizer and Shoutcast internet radio features work, which is to me just insane. I also use older software quite often that has long since been updated, such as older versions of Audacity,…
We’re not talking about Winamp. A more accurate comparison is the Adobe CS suite: no one use CS5 anymore.
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#176You're crazy. This is really cool.
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#177Side note: I just wanted to comment on the variance of HN submission popularity. OP submitted this same amazing tool as a "Show HN" 20 days ago, with very similar title and shorter description [0]. It got no votes.
Today this submission is climbing rapidly. Was the tool very different 20 days ago? I honestly don't know! But you never know how submissions will perform here. It feels pretty random, which makes sense, and also is part of the fun of HN.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does not omit future network calls. You can, in fact, use the network tab to monitor a page's ongoing network activity as originally suggested.
You won't be able to see that activity until after it has happened. An empty network monitor list isn't a guarantee of future behavior. Or current behavior.
Okay. Then solve p=np. Until then, we monitor and reverse engineer to verify as best we can.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
You won't be able to see that activity until after it has happened. An empty network monitor list isn't a guarantee of future behavior. Or current behavior.
Okay. Then solve p=np. Until then, we monitor and reverse engineer to verify as best we can.
It doesn't need to be that hard. A reasonable solution is to quarantine the tab/app. Proactively revoke its network access after its loaded.
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#180Any reason you couldn't bundle this into an Electron application? It's cool, and free. But what happens when you get bored and take the site down ?
This is exactly why I would hands down always prefer an electron wrapped application over a web app if given a choice between the two.
This is even more important if the app uses some kind of proprietary project file format, since if the website goes down you won't even be able to recover your project (without heavy reverse engineering potentially).