Man, with all of the anti-user "features" of social sharing apps, your interface is a breath of fresh air!
I'll be trying out the open source version this weekend so I can share links with my nerdy friends more easily, but trying out the saas version really showed how horrible social share sites are these days.
This is awesome! Good job on it :) Wish you had a mailing list signup - I don't want to forget about this!
I took a one month Spanish class in Mexico a few years ago. It was amazing for giving me a solid base, and your tool would be perfect for getting regular practice in and learning new things.
Definitely agree with the other comments that a more modern book would be better. For me, probably a children's book haha. I can't imagine how much time it takes to translate though!
Idea:
- Create a list of a few books you could translate.
- Allow users to donate and select the book it would go towards.
- When donations reach the threshold, they're charged and you write it.
Like Kickstarter for book translations haha. Or maybe Patreon or something has that feature.
There are some pretty crazy security restrictions (no external scripts!) just to get ffmpeg running. I can't imagine the additional security precautions that would prevent exploits for WebGPU.
True! When I first started building a video creation app, I was flailing around with google searches to find snippets to use. It was such a relief to spend an hour reading ffmpeg docs to understand how it works.
I'm using ffmpeg.wasm, it's basically ffmpeg compiled for the browser, and it's a simple layer where you basically treat it like the ffmpeg command, eg:
Hey, this feedback is great! And it isn't even too difficult to add - we have live clipped playback in our main app.
When it failed to load the video, did it show a convert option that failed to load it as well? I think there are some limitations to the ffmpeg.wasm compile. Do you know the extension, or any details of the codecs, etc?
Seriously! We were trying to build our video editor in the same style (eg like tinypng and GIF optimizers).
It's so cool to do it all in the browser!
I even built a simple landing page creator that let you change text and images, then created a zip file that you could extract to your web host - no backend needed!
I think for me, CORS is the biggest hindrance to some of my ideas, esp. around editing, creation, and working with the content.
The first time, I moved it from auto-loading to when the user clicks convert to save on bandwidth.
The second time, I moved it to after a file is selected. That gives it time to load while users are presented with options before converting.
It's definitely a trade-off. For us, the choice was easy-ish because we want to keep the budget down as Indie Hackers, so we can't just offer a free tool that costs a ton in backend/serverless charges.
Oh that tool is neat, and they have a super slick UI!
Our tool definitely isn't as slick, but I think that has its benefits too. Like our trim interface doesn't look as nice, but shows a live preview of where you're at in the video.
Yeah, SharedArrayBuffers have been back and forth!
- First they were disabled due to Spectre.
- Chrome reenabled them.
- New HTTP headers were added for cross-origin resource partitioning.
- FF/Chrome are both requiring those headers (FF now, Chrome next month)
That's awesome that you've played around with this, too. It was quite a bit of fun :)
I'll be trying out the open source version this weekend so I can share links with my nerdy friends more easily, but trying out the saas version really showed how horrible social share sites are these days.