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• orbital - Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube
  1 project | /r/programming | 4 Mar 2022
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• Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2022

  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...

  [2] https://getrecut.com/

  [3] https://github.com/SuboptimalEng/orbital

  [4] https://videohubapp.com/en/

• Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2021
• Show HN: Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2021
• 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.
  1 project | /r/videography | 24 Oct 2021

  As for the project, it’s 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).
  1 project | /r/programming | 23 Oct 2021
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