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?
I read the GP's post as sarcastic. But Poe's Law makes sarcasm hard.
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#42so basically a wrapper for ffmpeg and imagemagick.
which is perfectly fine because not everyone wants to do everything on the command line
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#43Small 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.
Even though saying "small nitpick" is redundant in terms of its literal meaning (denotation), communication is about more than simple denotation. It's also about emphasis, tone, and emotions, and saying "small nitpick" can be a good way to soften criticism and add a little humility and politeness.
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#44how 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?
O_o, well that was a short lived app.
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#45I really wanted to click on the features as they slid by to learn more about them. I was disappointed when I couldn't.
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#46What does this do that other similar tools don't? There are millions of video editing apps out there. What's your moat?
The moat is, it was built by a single dev with capital efficiency. This is what millions of other video editing apps backed by VCs lack.
On top of that the app has organic views as it ended up on top of hacker news that lot of these apps haven't.
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#47how 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?
It does not require that you do that. It only requires you to open source any modifications you've made to ffmpeg.
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#48Congratulations!
The app and the site looks really cool. A very very small issue on website. In the FAQ section it says "Every files gets processed on your device only" I think "files" should be "file" there. Nothing really important, just my perfectionism :)
Keep up the good work!
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Even though saying "small nitpick" is redundant in terms of its literal meaning (denotation), communication is about more than simple denotation. It's also about emphasis, tone, and emotions, and saying "small nitpick" can be a good way to soften criticism and add a little humility and politeness.
This particular linguistic construct is called a pleonasm!
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#50May I suggest not offering lifetime updates? All software that does this ends up getting around it in the end because they realize they need to get more money from existing customers to actually stay afloat. Normally by releasing the product under a slightly different name or some other sleight of hand.
The model like jetbrains does with IntelliJ I think is decent. Or look at smaller software like sublime text or ArqBackup (we're a license is forever for a specific major release of the software)