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I decided to create an app to browse and search through videos on your computer. There are many out there, but none had the specific set of features (and visual

by yboris 6y ago

I decided to create an app to browse and search through videos on your computer. There are many out there, but none had the specific set of features (and visual appeal) that I wanted. I now sell about 100 copies per month for about $500 income per month. I give $350 to charity for every 100 copies, but that's a personal decision. Building it has been a great learning experience. Interacting with customers has been a very rewarding experience (so many people love it). Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/en/ https://videohubapp.com/en/ and Open Source on GitHub - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

ackbar03 6y ago
Kudos to you, that's awesome, especially giving most of it to charity. How did you reach your customers? At 5 dollars per sale, that's around 100 customers per month for something that seems relatively non-essential
- yboris 6y ago
  Google analytics shows traffic as mostly direct and from Google; the next largest fraction coming from Reddit (I shared it a few times), and many from GitHub. I have never paid for advertisements. The first time I shared it on HN it went to the front page :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992 ps - it's not essential, but I think many people use it for porn ;)
0xy 6y ago
This is great and I've bookmarked this to buy later, if it had sorting/tagging/advanced filtering options I'd spend $50 on this, maybe more. I have a very large collection of assorted YouTube rips I've gathered over the years and would love software to help me arrange it.
- yboris 6y ago
  It has sorting, tagging, and advanced filtering options (fuzzy search, regex, etc) - you just have to enable them in the settings menu. Building your own copy is also hassle-free, just npm install, npm run build. Version 3 (releasing this month) already on main branch, has more features than public version.

by yboris 6y ago

ackbar03 6y ago

Kudos to you, that's awesome, especially giving most of it to charity. How did you reach your customers? At 5 dollars per sale, that's around 100 customers per month for something that seems relatively non-essential

yboris 6y ago
Google analytics shows traffic as mostly direct and from Google; the next largest fraction coming from Reddit (I shared it a few times), and many from GitHub. I have never paid for advertisements. The first time I shared it on HN it went to the front page :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992 ps - it's not essential, but I think many people use it for porn ;)

0xy 6y ago

This is great and I've bookmarked this to buy later, if it had sorting/tagging/advanced filtering options I'd spend $50 on this, maybe more. I have a very large collection of assorted YouTube rips I've gathered over the years and would love software to help me arrange it.

yboris 6y ago
It has sorting, tagging, and advanced filtering options (fuzzy search, regex, etc) - you just have to enable them in the settings menu. Building your own copy is also hassle-free, just npm install, npm run build. Version 3 (releasing this month) already on main branch, has more features than public version.