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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Love the video!
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
This a more important point than anything I've said in here. Thank you.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Yeah, I hear you, hindsight 20-20. It was Mark's manager John Shimmin who made that request. John is a great guy, and Mark had (still has?) a great relationship with him. He genuinely wanted to help Shimmin, and did so faithfully for w
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
The filing is public, and referred to in the lawsuit. I'll summarize here: Smule has claimed we violated non-solicitation provision in our contract by recruiting each other to start a startup; that we appropriated Smule's code or
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Of course, if one member in a couple has $40 million dollars and the other does not, and the rich one files a lawsuit against the other without even first talking to her, one might consider that the two are not equally culpable parties.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
It certainly seems like a reach to just assume bad behavior on both ends. Which actually, is one of the more insidious outcomes of making absurd claims against someone, even if they're completely false. People naturally respond "w
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Yes, thoughtful response, our lawyers are looking into this very strategy.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful comments. Relevantly, Shred Video doesn't even compete directly with Smule for customers. Smule is building a network of karaoke singers and aspiring music enthusiasts to create music together. Shred Video is
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
What do you mean by "right strategy" in this sense? Doing a 3rd party review of Shred vs Smule code/methods will give them a trove of relevant information if they intend to win on the merits. In my understanding, refusing it
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Just want to point out that Smule has not cited trade secret theft as a claim against us. And on non-compete, Mark and I were just employees, not officers of any sort. Neither of us was a manager with direct reports.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
thoman23. You so get me right now.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Yes, in legalese those would be considered trade secrets. Tellingly, Smule did not name "theft of trade secrets" as a claim in their lawsuit.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
In our case, we did not develop anything Shred-related (ideas or otherwise) while we were employed at Smule. So invention assignment is not at issue, because we did not moonlight on Shred Video while employed by Smule. I knew I wanted to bu
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Completely agree. We ourselves were very conscientious to never do anything Shred Video-related on any Smule machines, and did not build anything Shred Video-related until after we'd terminated our full-time employment at Smule.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Don't you think this will be absolved with a review of Shred Video's code/methods vs Smule's code/methods? And isn't it telling that Shred Video is more than willing to submit to such a review, but Smule has no
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Hi Paul thanks for your comments. In the code comparison, the 3rd party will also be able to look at methods (in addition to code copied directly). We're more than happy to include proprietary methods in the review. On stealing "i
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Yes, I completely agree. Thing is, we'd have to go through the full legal process before we could pursue that. Smule filed the lawsuit months before we even had a product or got into YC, they probably thought we wouldn't make it t
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
My co-founder Mark Godfrey did go work full-time for another company before we started Shred Video. He didn't start working full-time on Shred Video until May 2015. Smule filed the lawsuit against us without ever seeing any of our work
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
This is not a last nuclear option, and we're not in danger of losing our company to the lawsuit. Everything in the post is 100% true. We did get a lawyer involved when we started Shred Video, and are 100% sure our IP is clean and usabl
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Thanks Lane, I'd love to hear about your experience. I'll reach out to you separately. Financially we're going to be fine, we have enough already to fight this legally. Of course we'd rather not, and we want to expose th
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
One of the best ways to discourage bad behavior is to shine a light on it, which is why we're publishing our story. The risk here isn't that your former employer actually has a right to your company under the scenarios you listed.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
Hi All I'm a founder of Shred Video and the author of this article. Happy to answer any questions about our experience.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
hi datamart not at the moment. for the kinds of movies Shred Video creates music is too critical to forego.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
we're working on a recovery feature, so if you liked the previous shred better than a new one you can go back to it. we can probably use that to salvage the last shred in the event of the crash. thanks for the suggestion!
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
thanks for the detailed review - you're tweaked video was really good! gainers were sick. for readers, this will be a pretty common reaction w/ first time use: the first version will not be that great, but with a few tweaks can ma
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
great observation, we don't have a setting for that yet. we do the downsampling for speed in UX, makes sense to add a toggle to give user that preference. thanks for the suggestion!
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
yeah it's hard for a giant industry like music to adapt to all the changes digital, internet, and now streaming in so short a time. I feel the music industry just wants the distribution it had w/ records: buy something you can sha
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
this is the very motivation that caused us to build Shred Video! "I paid $400 for this camera, and the footage sits dormant" is a super common experience with these cameras, one we felt personally.
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
thanks nivals! send the crash details to mike@shredvideo.com? we'll try write a fix for you asap!
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by mikeshreds 11y ago
hey there! proooobably not a linux port right away, we want to get the UX fully dialed before we port to other platforms. sure! want to know more about our video analysis, or the way we remix music? the short on each: video analysis is look

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