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Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by cloverich »

wrboyce wrote: post #49
csallen wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm

I've always wondered what the name for this was! When I was younger I noticed a common one in some of my social groups, "small little"; I'd always wondered whether it was a cultural phenomena (someone said it, then it kept spreading) or a more natural diminutive (like I think "small nitpick" is).

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by bicepjai »

Congrats on release. One of my use case I struggle with is simple editing long GoPro videos. I like to remove any section of the many videos in the folder, since sometimes they are mundane with no activity. I have not found any tool that will easily allow me to do this, i have to reopen every single file and edit them and save them separately. This is such a pain I have around 1tb family videos waiting to be edited :( will buy it in a heart beat if this tool supports such use case

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by bagels »

crummy wrote: post #267
bagels wrote: post #198

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Just went through the code signing odyssey. It is a racket, but it did not take me a month. It took me a week and a half, including integration in to automated builds.

How do the automated builds work? When I tried this five years ago a hardware dongle needed to be connected to the build machine.

Yes, there is a self hosted GitHub runner for signing. The token is installed on a desktop in the office that runs this.

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by Stratoscope »

imiric wrote: post #270
Stratoscope wrote: post #242

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I think the distinction between "tuna" and "tuna fish" (tuna salad) was likely just something we made up in our own family. Maybe even just a way for us kids to prank our mom, or vice versa. "Do you want tuna, or tuna fish?" OTOH, "tuna fish" was indeed a common phrase back in those days (mid 20th century) as a synonym for canned tuna. It appeared on tuna can labels and advertisements. Here are some examples: https:/…

This thread reads like AIs talking to each other. Bizarre.

Really? I can assure you that everything I said was my own writing.

I did use Miss Chatty (ChatGPT 4o) as a research assistant, and cited my discussion with her in my comment.

If you don't mind, I am curious to learn what signals in my comments led you to think that I am an AI. :-)

Maybe there is something you know about me that I don't know!

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by Boldened15 »

codetrotter wrote: post #26
Boldened15 wrote: post #23

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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…

> 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. MP4 files use the MPEG-4 container format. It’s confusing at first why a .mp4 file would play somewhere and elsewhere not, until one looks into the difference of a container format and a vid…

I think I did understand that when it comes to MKVs since it was popular for anime precisely because of its support for newer x265 codecs. So there is some connection between container and codec, in that not all containers support all codecs. I would also assume since x264 is dated at this point and been around a long time that there would be universal support for those supported codecs but that clearly isn't the case.

In any event, it's unexpected that the default configuration of ffmpeg produces an MP4 unplayable on Mac. Looks like "pix_fmt yuv420p" is what's needed.

Side note I'm remembering now why I needed to do this, some dev tooling produces WebP video files which can't be uploaded everywhere.

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Post by RamblingCTO »

bennythomsson wrote: post #219
RamblingCTO wrote: post #171

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Distribution, marketing and running it is the hard part, not building software. I consider libraries to be like roads, it's a communal good if you will. Feel free to build and run these apps yourself in the open instead of complaining. You will see how time consuming that is.

Building a road is usually very similar to building another road. Building ffmpeg is very different from an SSL lib. They need different tradeoffs, design strategies, domain knowledge, etc. And doing them properly is really really hard. A lot of software out there sucks, in part because there is more focus on marketing than on correctness and reliability. If roads had the same quality as software then traffic deaths…

I've been a core maintainer of several (machine learning) libraries. It's a communal effort of people who care enough about these things. They come together because they need it, it's basic infrastructure so to speak.

> Building a road is usually very similar to building another road.

It's a similar process, but so is building software. That's entirely besides my point though, which you seem to have missed entirely.

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Post by imiric »

Stratoscope wrote: post #295
imiric wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This thread reads like AIs talking to each other. Bizarre.

Really? I can assure you that everything I said was my own writing. I did use Miss Chatty (ChatGPT 4o) as a research assistant, and cited my discussion with her in my comment. If you don't mind, I am curious to learn what signals in my comments led you to think that I am an AI. :-) Maybe there is something you know about me that I don't know!

Heh it's not just you, but the entire thread. It starts with a nitpick, and devolves into a discussion entirely alien to the original post. This is similar to how LLMs catch on to a single word or topic and run with it. All replies also have that pleasantly informative tone typical of LLMs. Even your last reply is too nice. :)

But don't mind me. Just found it curious. You don't seem like an AI from your profile, but these days one can't be sure anymore. Cheers!

Re: Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

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Post by fruit_snack »

bennythomsson wrote: post #139
Boldened15 wrote: post #27

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…

> beautiful landing page I disagree. Any page that sports a big "buy now" button without even scrolling but has at that point not even shown me a single screenshot will have a hard time catching my attention. I didn't look further.

It’s pretty much textbook to have a primary CTA above the fold on a landing page like this.

Would love to see examples of nice landing pages that _don’t_ do this and also aren’t big enough companies that you’ve already heard of them (10b plus companies may not need to do this as they’ve earned the scroll in brand recognition and likely have more than one product line).

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