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Show HN: Soda Player, a “modern” player app
- sodaplayer_team 10y agoHey! We are releasing the first beta version of our app: Soda Player (for Mac and Windows). We’re a bunch of internet geeks that were getting tired of how hard (and how many different apps it takes) to do one very simple thing, playing videos in a modern way. Here is what it can do: - The app can play local, web and Bittorrent video files in all formats instantly. - The app embeds its own custom VPN that is used to protect your privacy when playing non-local files. - The app will automatically find subtitles in many languages for whatever you are playing (we’re very proud of our matching algorithm, from our tests it works better than current subtitles tools out there). - Best part for the end, all of the above works on Chromecast and Airplay, just one-click away! We’ve worked pretty hard and we would love to hear your feedback and suggestions (and bug reports!). You can download the app at https://www.sodaplayer.com https://www.sodaplayer.com (it’s in open beta at the moment, but we may temporarily put the beta on hold if we get too many users, so get it fast!). Cheers!
- nailer 10y agoThis looks rad - mainly the clean UI and anti-throttling features. Can you sign your binaries? Windows Smartscreen prints a really angry message when you try and install it.
- sodaplayer_team 10y agoThanks! We're waiting for our nice and sweet certificates.
- mrmondo 10y agoHowdy, interesting looking project - could you'd please link to the source? Might be worth adding that to the landing page too.
- ggypro 10y agoit's clean, fast, easy, and secure. where do you store the temporary downloaded file though? or does it store any temps file? cheers man, looking forward to many improvements ahead.
- sodaplayer_team 10y agoThanks! The app uses some disk cache (when transcoding or watching something using bittorrent) that is automatically cleared when the app closes. We follow each platform's standard so the app uses the default temporary folder for each OS.
- probablypat 10y agoHow does the VPN work?
- kolemcrae 10y agoI really hate landing pages like this. http://imgur.com/a/lqban http://imgur.com/a/lqban
- kolemcrae 10y agoAlso, no USP above the fold? Kind of important. "Loves the web" tells me nothing.
- sodaplayer_team 10y agoIt's a beta, be nice :) More seriously, you make some good points (you forgot the "I thought the page loaded already scrolled down"), and we have spend more time on the app itself than the website, we will work on some improvements very soon.
- kolemcrae 10y agoSimplify. What do you want people to do? Looking at this you want them to live chat, social media it up and go to product hunt. Remove all that and make people download it.
- milankragujevic 10y agoI strongly dislike you've obfuscated all your code. But as far as I can see, it's a HTTPS proxy, WebTorrent, FFmpeg and Electron. It's look really nice, so kudos for that.