I've talked about this in a couple of recent interviews, and if you can't find one, I'll try to find you the link. This question about what it's like when you're in a platform war and the platforms are like these massive bulldozers is kind of an old bit of entrepreneurial lore that, at least when I first came to Silicon Valley, I was taught many years ago. We haven't had a bona fide platform war in a while, so I think some of that lore has passed out of common memory. Generally speaking, what you want to do is what's called a market resegmentation, where you find some section of the market that the bulldozers are not going to pass over, or where you control the customer because they are loyal to you and you can play the platforms off each other.
I went down the same path for videotobe.com, fully client-side with ffmpeg.wasm, and it fell over on longer videos. The memory ceiling and encode times pushed me to a cloud processing pipeline.
You've managed to solve both, the WebCodecs plus Pixi plus ffmpeg.wasm split looks like the right decomposition in hindsight.I processed 3+ hrs of media using VidStudio and it held up. Nicely done!
Wow this is really cool thanks a lot for sharing I was a bit demotivated from all the errors I have on sentry ahahha.
I did give ffmpeg wasm my best shot, even trying worker fs to deal with the memory problems but yeah a lot of effort for marginal gains imo.
Video codecs are really impressive but they are raw in the sense that I underestimated how much ffmpeg carries by giving you a decode, transform encode pipeline.
You stop paying for ads and the product link disappears. Reason why founders tend to go for reddit is because it gets indexed by Google and LLMs and the link gets 'preserved'.
What is your experience in stickiness of users after acquisition via Ad? Given crack down by reddit mods for posting links - I am considering just buying ads.
We run a similar setup in production at VideoToBe – FFmpeg inside Cloudflare Containers with R2 mounted as a local filesystem via FUSE (tigrisfs).
On the debate about Cloudflare vs Fly vs spot instances – for bursty, infrequent workloads that already use R2 for storage, Containers are a natural fit.
The container accesses R2 over Cloudflare's internal network, so files never hit the public internet.
(The main difference is we don't use Cloudflare Queues in conjunction with Cloudflare Containers. You can set max_instances to your desired settings to process parallel requests.)
Spot on. This tweet will go down in history — right next to Jack's first tweet. We all understand businesses require difficult decisions. This is one of the best layoff letters I've seen. Short, honest, and human.
This is a greatly researched article, and the site is just awesome!
Kanchipuram Saree has a rich history, and I learned so much more by reading this article.
I am intrigued by the Kanchipuram saree and have dreamed about owning one. The digital ledger is a unique idea – if authenticity is established, it would be easy to invest in this as art piece.
You don't need a digital ledger - these are ODOP goods [0] so it's fairly straigtforward to identify authenticity based on the wholeseller's GI tag [1].
GI Tagging for ODOP products is taken extremely seriously as the products associated with ODOP tend to be associated with locally powerful khadi cooperatives and because this is a personal project of Modi and Shah as they started their political careers in Khadi Cooperatives and Amit Shah is the Cooperation (as in Cooperatives and Khadi) Minister, so complaints tend to be taken seriously. Additionally, textile cooperatives are extremely important in TN as well, and the TN government closely enforces it's GIs as well as building their own e-commerce platform and showrooms for selling cooperative goods [2].
Your information about tagging is relevant and useful---and a valid critique of the techno-solutionsim espoused by the piece. Words that could have been spent on talking about the incredible technology that handlooms actually are.
But keep the votebank politics out of this man. Every political leader in the history of the country has espoused such kinship and love for the handicraft. Their reasons are their own.
Khadi and handicrafts have been political since before the beginning of the republic of India.
Besides, cooperatives are well-known mechanisms to launder money, and their politically "clean" image is why they are a favourite laundry of politicians.
I'm working on VideoToBe — a audio and video Transcription service with an AI chat layer. Whisper for transcription, then you can chat with your recordings instead of rewatching.
Also building simple tools for simple task such as converting audio-to-video to post on youtube and more for business users who find Premiere/Final Cut overkill for basic tasks. videotobe.com
Started as Pay-per-use service (upload the file and receive an email with transcript). Now we also offer subscription based service for media library, AI summaries, chat Q&A, insights/highlights.
With big companies with large budgets bulldozing smaller players - any advice on finding a niche that is worth pursuing?