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Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

#61

Congratulations! 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!

Thank you so much! i'm currently building the new landing page and have updated all the things there.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

#62
post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm old school, but I won't "buy" (rent?) subscriptions for software. I expect to own it outright, at to receive at least security updates for a reasonable time period.

Do you expect to receive a free car every new model year after buying one outright?

One time purchase + annual maintenance fee is a pretty common pricing model.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

#63

Excited to play with this! Noticed early on you ask for device password. I understand why you are doing it but this is still pretty sus, any other way to install the libraries as needed w/o pw?

Nothing to be sus about. I use this script to install the libraries that I made open source.

https://github.com/Ansh-Rathod/pimosa-builds/blob/main/macli...

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

#64
post #55

Congrats OP and it looks really nice! Out of curiosity, may I ask what’s ur tech stack for developing this software? I’m also an aspiring app developer :) Thank you!

Looks like it's "Flutter, sqlite, nextjs" https://ansh.life/projects/pimosa

yes it is built using flutter!

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

#65
It looks awesome and very handy, I found a few minor UI issues, I'm trying the Windows version on a 4k monitor.

* The "* If the upper image crop handles are all the way at the top, they aren't clickable, they don't show the resize cursor. When you drag them it moves the window instead of the crop handle

I have a few suggestions:

* I'm not sure how feasible this is, but I think video should have a similar combined crop/flip/rotate UI instead of separate ones like for photos

* It seems like batch processing is a first class notion in the app, which is definitely very handy, but I think maybe it should be a mode toggled by a radio? I think a lot of use cases are just one off uses, in which case the UI can be made a lot simpler. If I'm just working on one file, I would prefer to be dropped right into the tool editor rather than having to click edit.

* 2 devices for the extended license is still a little too limited in my opinion. I would make it so authenticating the app to a computer requires access to the email that purchased it, and then make the extended license unlimited. I don't think you have to worry about that getting used for a team since it would require access to the email account.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

#67

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?

it uses homebrew to install the FFmpeg on the user's device. the app doesn't bundle any libs to comply with their license limitations.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

#68
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does not require that you do that. It only requires you to open source any modifications you've made to ffmpeg.

it is slightly more nuanced, if you do static linking it is considered derivative work and does requires you to open it. Since the app is based on ffmpeg which is GPL(core is LGPL) i am curious to know how it is getting used.

i didn't bundle the ffmpeg in the app. It uses homebrew to install ffmpeg on the user's device. this is the acceptable way since ffmpeg confirms it on twitter/X.

https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1766649563891339510

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