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Show HN: A no-watermark video downloader for Any social media

#1
Hi HN reader,

I'm a solo-founder navigating product market fit. I've spent 3 years building Double Subtitles which I am very proud of, but I don't know how to do marketing and my growth is somewhat stagnant. Through learning about SEO, I discovered this opportunity that I want to share:

There are a lot of websites that let you download social media videos, which have extremely high traffic. But they are all disjoint, in the sense that some download TikTok videos, while others download Instagram videos, others YouTube, etc...

I quickly prototyped software which downloads any video from any link. Currently the live version of FastDownload only supports TikTok and YouTube videos, since they are the most stable. But I will slowly start rolling out Instagram and other services weekly.

ps. Personally, what I think is really cool is this Apple Shortcut, which lets you download videos directly from within whatever app you're in, using Share Action Extensions.

pps. Another thing I'm very excited about is that while doing analysis with Ahrefs and SEMRush I have been able to identify many high value keywords which I'm deploying pSEO strategies for now.

I hope this product is helpful and any feedback (even negative) would bring me joy.

All the best, Bojan

Show HN: A no-watermark video downloader for Any social media
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Re: Show HN: A no-watermark video downloader for Any social media

#6
just put yt-dlp on your path and you can do this without sharing your data with some weird SEO garbager

it's so lamentable that putting a binary on your path is too technical for most people these days as the user experience is so so much better than any other option, anytime I want to share a short form video i can Ctrl + L -> Ctrl + C to get the link, Ctrl + R to summon a command prompt, type `ytdl` Shift + Insert to paste the url and then I can drag the resultant file into whatever sharing tool I want to use, guaranteeing it's never going to be taken offline and whoever I'm sharing with doesn't need to have an account or solve a captcha or something else dumb

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