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This means a lot. I have spent some time getting it down. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears haha. I agree with the templates. I am trying to allocate my time wi
by michaelaubry 6y ago
This means a lot. I have spent some time getting it down. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears haha.
I agree with the templates. I am trying to allocate my time wisely and I think expanding that will be major.
I am drawing up a way to make it even easier for people to create amazing videos.
When you click "add new video" I plan to make it interactive and guide you along every step.
Your options will be
Do you want to create a video
- from scratch
- from a template
- for your podcast
- for your product
- for your brand
Based on the selection I will walk the user through an simple experience. Have them upload their assets, select a vibe, enter some information, etc. Then generate the video data and put it on the timeline.
I am doing sales, customer support, engineering, and design. So once I can get some runway I will be able to roll it out.
To be honest I hate sales and marketing. I just want to build, and if I can get to ramen profit. Then I can pay people to do what I hate.
- eganist 6y agoTwo questions based on that last sentence: 1. Are you going to do the sales grind until you find a CEO and sales team who can do that for you? 2. Would you be comfortable in a CTO role, letting a CEO handle the non-technical but knowing they could very well be determining what you should focus on strategically?
- michaelaubry 6y agoYes if it is needed and makes sense for the company to thrive I am not married to any set way. I do have a vision for this product and it would have to be the right fit. I keep an open mind though.
- bigiain 6y ago> I agree with the templates. I am trying to allocate my time wisely and I think expanding that will be major. Maybe worth trying out some "Create and share templates in your free plan, earn upgrades to 3 months worth of Pro plan when 5 other users create with your templates!" kind of crowd sourcing and network effect thing?
- michaelaubry 6y agoLove this idea.
- addandsubtract 6y agoAre the people creating templates interested in this product, though? If I was a creator, I'd rather want to sell a premium template and get a percentage of each sale – or if they were included for free in the premium plan, then a kickback from the premium plan sales.
- ghj 6y agoMake it easy to create /r/highqualitygifs style memes and it will probably market itself!
- aerovistae 6y agoI'm curious, did you use some kind of library for the little thumbnail videos under "Try a Template" or code it yourself?
- michaelaubry 6y agoSo I re-used some code from inside the app. I built the ability to grab and scroll inside the timeline. Then I converted it to a re-usable component. I'd be open to open sourcing it.
- Technetium 6y agoI eagerly await an open source release. Fantastic work!
- amitheonlyone 6y agoSo it is pretty intuitive to use. But when I tried to export, it asked for sign up. So I signed up and I was taken to the dashboard where I couldn't find the story I was working on till then. :(
- michaelaubry 6y agoInteresting. I think I know why. I did a huge migration and forgot to test that step. Thanks for reminding me. Sorry that happened. Happy to give you a month for free if you can see yourself becoming a user.
- murukesh_s 6y agoman.. huge respect. you did an amazing job here. i have build products almost on my own and know the pain. i know exactly what you mean by blood, sweat and tears :). good luck. hope it takes off well.