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#102If this had screen capture recording integration I would 100% buy ! I have been on handbreak for years and what you have does look like an improvement. Good luck and congratulations!
What does screen recording have to do with encoding app? Its completely different type of app (quite hard btw) with different UX requirements. Its like saying if it could do spreadsheets i would 100% buy it.
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#103Looks 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…
> - There are random grammar mistakes and capitalization issues throughout the site, nothing major but worth a pass by a native English speaker. …
Can I get a discount if I copy edit your site and docs for you? :) But, yea, agree that the typos give pause.
> - Could be worth to have a more prominent "Download" box …
And make it more clear what downloading gets you. Is it a trial? Or just a version of the app that doesn’t save?
Reading through the site and docs, I get the impression you’ve spent more time getting license keys to work than anything else. Certainly at least in the way of docs.
Congrats on the first release.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If the product stops working if you don’t pay the maintenance fee then it’s a subscription model with an initial down-payment.
Car maintenance doesn’t fall into the annual fee model, as much as manufacturers and dealers would like, you don’t have to use them for periodic repairs or servicing. Car features that require yearly renewals (navigation and the like) would be subscriptions with a one-time free trial.
One time purchase plus yearly renewals to keep the product operating are one shaky legal grounds.
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#105Bonus bug report, underscores in filenames seem to mess with things. E.g. DCS_0035 and DCS_0036 both resolve to DCS_(1), overwriting each other.
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#106Earlier 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.
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
Are there any contenders to provide a nitpick on this?
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#107Looks real pro! I am in middle of moving to linux but damn apps like these make me think i should keep my mac.
Two common image usecases (maybe just not documented on site) that i regurarly need.
- .heic input support from airdropped iphone images
- JpegXL .jxl support as i am moving my image library to this format for space saving and futureproofing
I assume its imagemagicks fault but maybe low hanging fruit as the library updates.
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#108Congratulations!
A. The better call Saul on the video demo is cheerful. Thanks for putting a smile on my face.
B. You want to convey simplicity, then do that on the copy. For example, instead of x bullets each with action, make it short, resize, convert, rotate etc your video.
Same for images and audio.
Put the demo video right next to the declaration (“show it, don’t tell”).
There is some repetition on the Text, literally one next to each other. e g
The Smarter Way to Edit Your Videos, Photos, and Audio
Everything you need to edit your videos, photos, and audio effortlessly
All-in-One Tool Video, audio, and image editing in one app
Space-Saving One lightweight app replaces multiple tools
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#110Excited 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...
Might want to add major version checks particularly with ffmpeg as IIRC filter syntax can vary between major versions (speaking as someone who is pretty sure he’s got an older version of ffmpeg installed because I don’t want to rewrite my scripts).