Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by batmaniam » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 4:35 AM UTC

nice! was this built in electron?

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by randmeerkat » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 4:58 AM UTC

mmahemoff wrote: post #24

distantsounds wrote: post #10

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Every Unix command eventually becomes a startup: https://matt-rickard.com/every-unix-command-becomes-a-startu... Turns out not everyone wants to spend years learning *nix and sit on a desktop pc debugging shell commands to edit their video.

wall became Twitter

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by sadeshmukh » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 4:58 AM UTC

contrarian1234 wrote: post #16

sadeshmukh wrote: post #4

What software do you use for generating those demos of how the software works? Or did you edit them yourself?

The default video editor that comes on my vivo phone seems to have more features than this..

I mean, you don't exactly record it on your phone either.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by jjallen » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 5:00 AM UTC

h00dinberry wrote: post #5

What does this do that other similar tools don't? There are millions of video editing apps out there. What's your moat?

What’s the moat of the millions of others? 99.9% of business don’t and can’t have a moat.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by randmeerkat » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 5:01 AM UTC

distantsounds wrote: post #10

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> congrats on wrapping ffmpeg and charging for it!

AWS is just a wrapper around KVM.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by OccamsMirror » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 5:02 AM UTC

h00dinberry wrote: post #5

What does this do that other similar tools don't? There are millions of video editing apps out there. What's your moat?

Did the OP pitch you for VC? Why do they need a moat?

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by latexr » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 5:07 AM UTC

senkora wrote: post #28

Small nitpick: on your user testimonials, you list reddit users as r/ when the correct way to do it is u/ .

> Small nitpick

Nitpick on your nitpick: By definition, all nitpicks are small. This isn’t important, but I thought you might appreciate the meta commentary.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by newusertoday » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

how are you able to get around ffmpeg licensing since it is client app which requires you to open your code if you use ffmpeg GPL?

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by MichaelApproved » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

latexr wrote: post #37

senkora wrote: post #28

Small nitpick: on your user testimonials, you list reddit users as r/ when the correct way to do it is u/ .

> Small nitpick Nitpick on your nitpick: By definition, all nitpicks are small. This isn’t important, but I thought you might appreciate the meta commentary.

Nitpick on your nitpick: It’s possible for something to be small, relative to something that is already considered small.

Things that are considered small can still have variations in the extent of their smallness.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by krsdcbl » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

latexr wrote: post #37

senkora wrote: post #28

Small nitpick: on your user testimonials, you list reddit users as r/ when the correct way to do it is u/ .

> Small nitpick Nitpick on your nitpick: By definition, all nitpicks are small. This isn’t important, but I thought you might appreciate the meta commentary.

nitpick on your nitpick on the nitpick: a "metacommentary" would be if you'd be commenting on your own text. That's even less important, but I thought you might appreciate such asides