Ask HN: Any self-made software developers?

• videotranscode.space

  4 484 0.0 TypeScript

  A video transcoder and converter built using Web Assembly and FFMPEG to transcode and convert videos right in your browser while protecting your privacy

  

> I've thought of making a DE apps for mobile linux entirely with something like electron.

Oh, please don't. /s

> Linux doesn't really pay.

It depends. Professional DAWs come to mind first: Reaper, Bitwig, Renoise. Professional video editor DaVinci Resolve Studio. Full-featured suite is certainly well beyond the capabilities of a single developer, but I'm sure there's a lot of specific pain points in these professional niches which you could cover. Also, Sublime Text/Merge are massively popular, while being freemium.

You mentioned Electron, so I suppose you're more inclined to web stack: there's a rapidly[1] growing[2] number[3] of WASM-based[4] apps[5]. They're web-native, multiplatform by nature, easily implemented as SaaS'es, and may be packaged as "native" applications.

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26323966

[3] https://modfy.video/

[4] https://fileconverter.digital/

[5] https://video2gif.vercel.app/

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

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