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

#81

Interesting. Back in 2007 my company Motionbox partnered with flipclips.com to sell themed flipbooks very similar to these. Both companies are defunct now. Demo at a trade show: https://youtu.be/FIiLsyeAM_I?si=BQHt5Q4Q80y3Il5f

A case of being too early? Like the grocery delivery companies that went defunct before the era of Instacart.

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

#83
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It almost looks like something I could make myself, but cutting those tiny pages while keeping them perfectly indexed would surely be where my diy would go wrong. Good work OP for working out that special sauce! It's a clever idea, and it's encouraging to see that there are still clever ideas at the small-business scale still waiting to be invented.

We’re thinking of adding a DIY version where you can buy a pattern made from your video, print it at home or a local print shop, cut it, and bind it with a clip binder. Would that be something you’d find interesting?

maybe one could die-cut sheets containing an array of cards that you first print onto and then are easily separated by hand and aligned with some sort of pegs. I once bought a type of printer paper to make business cards that comes pre scored/cut so you print it normally but then the cards come apart with a gentle pull.

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

#84
This is awesome. I did this one time (not automated). I wanted to have an analog version of a video. It was a video of my baby daughter laughing. That was almost 10 years ago.

I used ImageMagik to make some stills. I bulk uploaded them to Walgreens photos. Thankfully they were all printed in order! I jankily bound them together somehow and it worked!

I always thought it would be neat to have this as a service. I will be ordering some of these for sure!

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

#87
I love this. Hoping to retire early from my tech career someday and I have dreams of finding my own weird semi-profitable niche that I can run by just myself and my family for a few hours a day.

I currently have an incredibly small ebay business doing fairly specific motorsports vinyl emblems. The profit margin per order is great but I'm lucky to get a handful of orders a month and have no idea how to scale it. There are thousands of other people doing vinyl stuff on ebay for absolutely peanuts and I don't know how to compete with that.

Are you selling only online or are you setting up vendor booths at events?

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

#89
Years ago I built a service that would print family & friend Instagram and Facebook posts and automatically mail them to an incarcerated loved one. I joked that it will be technically possible to convert the videos to flip books, and here you have gone and done it!
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