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Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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Post by cptskippy »

momciloo wrote: post #34
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #33

Is this just supplemental income, or are you actually making a living from it? Isn't it a bit of a risk to tout the success of this idea among a tech crowd capable of going off and creating competitors?

It's supplemental, but it's enough to make living where we live. When I first started, I worried about creating competition by sharing too much. But after 6 years of refining production, I've realized this product isn't easy to replicate at all

How does your product differ from the Flipbook Photobooths that people have at their weddings? They're able to create flipbooks on demand that are very high quality.

Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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Post by SoftTalker »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #33

Is this just supplemental income, or are you actually making a living from it? Isn't it a bit of a risk to tout the success of this idea among a tech crowd capable of going off and creating competitors?

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Guaranteed that others have thought of this. Execution is where you succeed or fail.

Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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Post by benuuu »

I uploaded a vertical video and it was a little unclear to me where the binding would be. I'm assuming it's on the left. It might be helpful to have a ui element to the side of the video container that looked like the binding so it was clear that would be the end product.

Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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Post by momciloo »

cptskippy wrote: post #41
momciloo wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's supplemental, but it's enough to make living where we live. When I first started, I worried about creating competition by sharing too much. But after 6 years of refining production, I've realized this product isn't easy to replicate at all

How does your product differ from the Flipbook Photobooths that people have at their weddings? They're able to create flipbooks on demand that are very high quality.

I haven’t held a flipbook like that in my hands, but the main benefit of ours is that you can upload any video from your phone anytime - you don’t need to be at a wedding. The downside, of course, is the delivery time

Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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Post by gus_massa »

jsat wrote: post #14

The flip demonstration video needs to be redone. Very poor execution by the person flipping.

If it's too perfect, it would look fake. Perhaps make a first poor run and then another nice run, as if the person learned how to flip in the middle.

Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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Post by mhnthrow »

momciloo wrote: post #21
subpixel wrote: post #11

Really cool, I'd expect to see how much I would save when ordering 5, 10 etc (of the same video). I think it's clear that groups are the winning use case, but if I want all parties from a vacation (picking one example of many) to get a flipbook, I need to pay less than $25 per.

We rarely get 3-10 identical orders, so there’s no calculator for it. For 10+, people contact us directly, and we offer custom options like branding and photo covers. But maybe we could add a page specifically for bulk orders, with some pricing adjustment visualisations. thanks for suggesting it!

Bulk orders would be great. I just sent you one of my kid starting to crawl, it'll be a birthday gift for my wife. These would make great gifts in general - if you end up doing any more personalization like names embossed on covers or something, you can probably double the price.

Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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Post by talkingtab »

A very long time ago there was a program on the Mac. You drew one picture (macdraw maybe), just lines, then a second picture. You could then watch as pix 1 morphed into pix 2. Anyone know where something like that is. A flip book for that would be great.

Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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Post by latexr »

talkingtab wrote: post #48

A very long time ago there was a program on the Mac. You drew one picture (macdraw maybe), just lines, then a second picture. You could then watch as pix 1 morphed into pix 2. Anyone know where something like that is. A flip book for that would be great.

That is an animation technique called “tweening”. Using that term you should be able to find some software to do it.

Re: Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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Post by rhubarbtree »

j45 wrote: post #36
momciloo wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's supplemental, but it's enough to make living where we live. When I first started, I worried about creating competition by sharing too much. But after 6 years of refining production, I've realized this product isn't easy to replicate at all

It's almost always the case that anyone who thinks something is easy to replicate will realize the product is the marketing, sales, creating/building, delivery, billing, and not just any tech. Happy for you having a family activity. Binding is a good skill to have, remember it from my school days.

I used to think tech was a small part of a startup. Now I think it’s a _very_ small part.
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