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That's the purpose of my startup :); we've been making an HTML5 animation tool for OS X for the last two years: http://tumult.com/hype/ http://tumult.com/hype/
by tumultco 13y ago
That's the purpose of my startup :); we've been making an HTML5 animation tool for OS X for the last two years:
http://tumult.com/hype/ http://tumult.com/hype/
- anarchy8 13y agoHow do you feel about having Google as a direct competitor?
- atburrow 13y agoMaybe an acquisition is in their near future.
- tumultco 13y agoGoogle itself doesn't scare me; it is really just team vs. team. I think we've got the best product and engineering expertise for this market. Clearly I'm biased :) so I'd encourage anyone to try Tumult Hype and let us know your thoughts (we've got a fully functional 14-day trial on the site). While Google hasn't announced pricing, it is probably safe to say it is going to be free. This is a business for us, so we charge $29.99. I don't like competing against free, but that just means we'll be continually pushed to provide that much more value!
- svtiger 13y agoKeep up the good work! From first glance your product seems to have superior functionality and usability. So I'd gladly pay for ease of use alone.
- edraferi 13y agoGreat attitude. Best of luck!
- beernutz 13y agoI would love to check out your product, but it only runs on OSX. You might consider a port to drastically expand your potential client base. Google's free offering is cross platform already.
- alanh 13y ago“Drastically?” The vast majority of the web developers I know use OS X. And, I guess, most of the marketers, too.
- lostsock 13y agoWow really? Where (in what bubble) do you live?
- taftster 13y agoI'm guessing the bubble called Silicon Valley. They tend to have a fairly skewed view of the world there.
- sneak 13y agoThe one where the vast majority of web developers live.
- debaserab2 13y ago> the vast majority You're actually discounting the entire world outside of SV right now?
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- alexcroox 13y agoYou might consider hosting that intro video on a better platform, buffered so slowly for me with a 120MB connection. Granted your site is probably getting hit by HN, but when attention spans are so short, many may give up long before I did.
- tumultco 13y agoThanks for reporting this; our site should be able to handle this amount of traffic no problem and the video loads pretty quickly for me. Where are you located and does the problem still happen? We've moved nearly all of our other videos to youtube, so if it really is our server you can click the "watch more" buttons on the main page to still get a feel for the app.
- zach_s 13y agoIt may be tough, but porting your application to Windows would be a great idea and help you compete against Google in the long run. Good luck with it, and from what I've checked around on your website it seems like a great tool/competitor to Google! (I'm on a Mac, still I have Windows machines and know a huge amount of web-developers who abide by Windows)
- ekanes 13y agoLove your attitude. If you can position yourself as the best alternative to Google's product it's not a bad place to be - they may expand the market. Good luck.
- coverband 13y ago"it is really just team vs. team" -- that's a great way of looking at it. Good luck with the additional attention and hope you can convert new eyes into more customers.
- benologist 13y agoThey're the perfect competitor - they validate the market, they almost always fail, and they acquire winners.
- robgough 13y agoAnd of course they'll pull the plug in 18 months or so thus leaving people wanting for a replacement :P
- fuzzywalrus 13y agoI nabbed Hype 2 off the mac app store only a few weeks ago or so. I haven't had much time behind it but it seems promising. I'll have to compare the two utilities....
- recurrie 13y agoHype is amazing tool - only took a few minutes to get up to speed on it. We built an educational touchscreen kiosk in it, and then were able to deploy on an iPad by just scaling it down and downsampling the bitmap assets. A really polished tool.
- digitalengineer 13y agoYour App is also mentioned a lot in the world of InDesign users looking to create interactive e-books. The HTML5 import of InDesign works well Hype. Hype was mentioned just last week at the Adobe User Event I helped set up. These people are designers, not programmers and your App can really help them. #eyeopener