Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

The spirit of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 lives on!

That's unnecessarily flippant, even if it were just an ffmpeg wrapper do you imagine every person is a software developer who knows how to use the command line? This is clearly geared toward content creators. And even though I am technical I usually use random websites from Google to accomplish this stuff, looking up magic ffmpeg commands is (not fun)[1].

Actually ran into a random issue before where the first result for "convert video to MP4 with ffmpeg" would produce files not playable by Quicktime on Mac, you needed to pass in some other codec argument to make it work. So even ffmpeg is not a panacea for technical folks.

Additionally this take is just incorrect. If you scroll down the landing page to "Super simple video editor" you'll see it has cool features where a GUI shines, like cropping a video to a specific section while scrubbing through it. Good look using ffmpeg to do that.

My advice to OP is to make those GUI features more prominent in the landing page compared to "converting videos" -- I think most social media apps will accept the common video formats created by most phones so that's probably more niche than some of the editing stuff.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1168/

For video editing, can you put basic text/etc over the video? Ie gifs + text? A refined UX for going from screen capture to stupid gif, on Linux and Windows, would easily be something i'd pay for.

Looks great, beautiful landing page and it looks like a labor of love!

- Most of the page titles are the (same)[1] which doesn't seem good for SEO. Each of the pages like "Pricing" or "Compress Your Video Files" should be differently named.

- The "video compressor" tool would be much more useful if you could enter a target file size. This is a frequent use case, if you want to send a video over email or social media apps like Messenger with a file size limit. The only way I've been able to do that for myself is basically encode it repeatedly with ffmpeg at various quality settings until the file size is just small enough, but you could probably automate that with something more intelligent like a good guess and a binary search. I'm sure someone's made a library to do that already though.

- It needs a whole bunch of features related to subtitles, like making a subtitled GIF from a video file with subtitles.

- Maybe risky to include copyrighted work like the Spider-Verse movie in the demo video? Unless you really did rip it legally from a Blu-ray.

- There are random grammar mistakes and capitalization issues throughout the site, nothing major but worth a pass by a native English speaker. "What kinda files Pimosa supports?" and "Every files gets processed on your device only" as some examples. Might give some people pause.

- Could be worth to have a more prominent "Download" box at the top section that automatically detects your OS. Most landing pages have that so I assume it works.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fpimosa....

congrats on wrapping gcc!