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
Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
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#83It 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?
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#84I 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!
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#87I 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?