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Show HN: Instant Social Media Videos

3 points by usernamebias 7y ago

stevefromIT 7y ago
Interesting concept. What's tech stack did you use?
- usernamebias 7y ago
  Thanks! Mostly built on Firebase with a linux backend that handles the video processing. Built on top of FFmpeg. SPA - Firebase Database - Firebase Auth - Firebase Functions Backend - EC2 Stripe - Payment Processing Donations - Donations API from Nationbuilder.com
wsgreen 7y ago
Neat but I'd like to see a demo before purchasing. Possibly allow a trial account or an example video?
helb 7y ago
Some random notes and thoughts from the first try: Front page: - I really like the simple layout & design - It loads 45 MB of GIFs. Maybe using actual <video>s or just JPG/WEBP photos in a slideshow would be better for webpage use – smaller size and better image quality. - What do the Dell/Uber/… logos mean in this context? - Which nonprofits do you donate to? Video creator itself: - Another huge GIF - You're trying to load something from `HTTP://zeus.instantvideos.org/` on a HTTPS page, which produces a warning in some browsers, and is blocked altogether in some others (like my FF 66) - When selecting photos to use, clicking the selection marker circle does nothing. Clicking the image outside the circle selects it, but i kinda expected the circles to behave like checkboxes - The "check" button in the coupon form is hidden behind "back" and "purchase" buttons in wider viewports (and scroll does not work in that container): https://i.vgy.me/utX2Fx.png https://i.vgy.me/utX2Fx.png - When i tried importing from my instagram account, nothing apparent happened. After poking around in browser devtools, it got HTTP 500 from us-central1-awesome-video-maker.cloudfunctions.net/instagram with a "user page has only 15 posts" message. Maybe it could print that to the form somewhere… - Some free demo (max. five photos with your watermark?) would be nice - /favicon.ico returns the HTML page itself for some reason (ah, it seems that all 404s are redirected to index.html)

3 points by usernamebias 7y ago

stevefromIT 7y ago

Interesting concept. What's tech stack did you use?

usernamebias 7y ago
Thanks! Mostly built on Firebase with a linux backend that handles the video processing. Built on top of FFmpeg. SPA - Firebase Database - Firebase Auth - Firebase Functions Backend - EC2 Stripe - Payment Processing Donations - Donations API from Nationbuilder.com

wsgreen 7y ago

Neat but I'd like to see a demo before purchasing. Possibly allow a trial account or an example video?

helb 7y ago

Some random notes and thoughts from the first try: Front page: - I really like the simple layout & design - It loads 45 MB of GIFs. Maybe using actual <video>s or just JPG/WEBP photos in a slideshow would be better for webpage use – smaller size and better image quality. - What do the Dell/Uber/… logos mean in this context? - Which nonprofits do you donate to? Video creator itself: - Another huge GIF - You're trying to load something from `HTTP://zeus.instantvideos.org/` on a HTTPS page, which produces a warning in some browsers, and is blocked altogether in some others (like my FF 66) - When selecting photos to use, clicking the selection marker circle does nothing. Clicking the image outside the circle selects it, but i kinda expected the circles to behave like checkboxes - The "check" button in the coupon form is hidden behind "back" and "purchase" buttons in wider viewports (and scroll does not work in that container): https://i.vgy.me/utX2Fx.png https://i.vgy.me/utX2Fx.png - When i tried importing from my instagram account, nothing apparent happened. After poking around in browser devtools, it got HTTP 500 from us-central1-awesome-video-maker.cloudfunctions.net/instagram with a "user page has only 15 posts" message. Maybe it could print that to the form somewhere… - Some free demo (max. five photos with your watermark?) would be nice - /favicon.ico returns the HTML page itself for some reason (ah, it seems that all 404s are redirected to index.html)