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orbital
- orbital - Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube
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Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
I tried to make 2 different desktop apps in 2021 and failed at both.
Atomic Edits[0] is a desktop app that helps YouTubers (like me) automatically remove silence in videos. It went viral on Reddit[1] but I realized later that building a video editing app with Electron (and not C++) was a bad choice. Library support video/audio editing was lacking.
Recut[2] is an app that basically does what Atomic Edits aimed to do, but actually succeeded. I think it's because it was a native Mac app which meant it had access to better libraries for editing videos. (That or I gave up too early on Atomic Edits.)
Orbital[3] is desktop app that allows you to search, filter, preview video files on your computer like YouTube. I posted on some subreddits and it had potential but I realized it wouldn't be enough to sustain me. It could've worked as a side-project but being as my main source of income was from YouTube ad-revenue, it wasn't worth it.
VideoHubApp[4] is a desktop app that does what Orbital aimed to do and actually earned a couple thousand dollars. It was started a few years earlier and was built with a similar tech stack.
All that is to say, I made desktop apps that had potential, but I did not have the time to spend making them feature complete.
[0] https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/atomic-edits
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/ohbl6i/i_made_a_des...
- Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?
- Show HN: Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube
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After quitting my job and going full-time on YouTube, I started accumulating a ton of media files. So I made an app to search, filter, and preview them.
As for the project, itβs open source - meaning the code is available for all to see, update, and report issues on GitHub (https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/Orbital).
- An open-source, local-first desktop app that helps search, filter, and preview video files (like YouTube).
exiftool-vendored.js
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Exploring EXIF
Know that although ExifTool is written in perl, you can run it in "batch mode" which makes it quite fast--only a couple of ms to parse a file. I've written an open source library to manage the subprocesses for you if you're using node.js (and I also wrote the ruby variant ages ago):
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Lychee β Self-hosted photo-management done right
The frontend is in Vue. Both the FE and BE are in TypeScript.
Parallelism is provided by https://github.com/photostructure/batch-cluster.js/
Metadata reads and writes are via https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js/
My more nerdier blog posts are tagged here: https://photostructure.com/tags/coding/
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FS-Viewer 1.2.0 - Now stable on Windows
if you're looking into doing stuff with EXIF, there's a really good library that's also typed: https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js
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Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
I needed a good Node wrapper for ExifTool and wrote https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js
When I saw how slow it is to fork child processes in Windows, I then realized I wanted to run ExifTool in "stay-open" mode, which meant I needed to manage 1 or more long-lived child processes that communicate via stdin/stdout, so I wrote https://github.com/photostructure/batch-cluster.js
I also really missed scala's `lazy` operator, so I built that (and several other small, helpful functions/classes) that I documented here: https://photostructure.com/coding/uncertain-lazy-forgetful-a...
What are some alternatives?
GameDev - πΎ The code for my game dev + computer graphics experiments on YouTube. [Moved to: https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/Gamedex]
qrcode - qr code generator
atomic-edits - π¬ A desktop app that automatically removes silence from videos.
gm - GraphicsMagick for node
tailwind-clones - π Cloning the UIs' of popular websites with Tailwind CSS.
ImageScript - zero-dependency JavaScript image manipulation
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
is-progressive - Check if JPEG images are progressive
pareto-mac - Automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
jimp - An image processing library written entirely in JavaScript for Node, with zero external or native dependencies.
video-cutter - Cut any video online using FFMPEG... no server needed ! (Thanks WebAssembly)
image-type - Detect the image type of a Buffer/Uint8Array