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by meerab 3mo ago
Read 'The lean startup' - it has shaped the way I think about building products! With big companies with large budgets bulldozing smaller players - any advice on finding a niche that is worth pursuing?
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by meerab 5mo ago
Congrats on shipping this! 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
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by meerab 6mo ago
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
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by meerab 6mo ago
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 th
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by meerab 7mo ago
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.
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by meerab 7mo ago
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 dig
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by meerab 7mo ago
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 conve
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by meerab 9mo ago
VideoToBe.com - Transcription & Chat for Audio/Video (board meetings, lecture notes, churches summons etc.) Started as Pay-per-use service (upload the file and receive an email with transcript). Now we also offer subscription based
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by meerab 10mo ago
It is up now!
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by meerab 10mo ago
Please don’t get a dog just because you’re having an existential crisis. Dogs are lifelong responsibilities.
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by meerab 10mo ago
Thank you! It certainly looks like Rotoscoping. And EbSynth looks amazing! I wonder what model/tech will track the moment so well!
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Ask HN: How to generate flipbook-style animations from video?
2 points by meerab 10mo ago|2 comments
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by meerab 11mo ago
I use a two-pass approach - first pass with ASR (OpenAI Whisper) and second pass with an LLM. I ask users to provide context upfront and use that as the "initial_prompt" parameter in Whisper: https://github.com/op
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by meerab 11mo ago
Working on https://videotobe.com a audio/video transcription service. VideoToBe started as a user friendly Whisper wrapper — but is evolving into a full pipeline that extracts, summarizes, and structures insights from multi
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by meerab 1y ago
I created transcript for it for anyone wanting to read instead of listen! https://videotobe.com/play/youtube/hS1YqcewH0c
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by meerab 1y ago
My actual time breakdown as a solo developer: 10% Daily time to learn about various AI tools and improve my workflow. 20% Procrastination (this might be way more than what I'm willing to accept. But this is HN, I want to appear smart )
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by meerab 1y ago
Personal opinion: Claude code is more user friendly than cursor with its CLI like interface. The file modifications are easy to view and it automatically runs psql, cd, ls , grep command. Output of the commands is shown in more user friend
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by meerab 1y ago
Yes. /init will initialize the project and save initial project information and preference. Ask Claude to update the preference and document the moment you realize that claude has deviated away from the path.
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by meerab 1y ago
I am working on VideoToBe.com - and my stack is NextJS, Postgresql and FastAPI. Claude code is amazing at producing code for this stack. It does excellent job at outputting ffmpeg, curl commands, linux shell script etc. I have written deta
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by meerab 1y ago
I have barely written any code since my switch to Claude Code! It's the best thing since sliced bread! Here's what works for me: - Detailed claude.md containing overall information about the project. - Anytime Claude chooses a dif
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by meerab 1y ago
Your routine seems completely normal. This is Not Youtube addiction and procrastination. You work 8 hours - that's already your productivity. The idea that your personal time also needs to be optimized and highly productive is tech bro
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by meerab 1y ago
Bingo - that is the real reason! If an Agentic requests originate from a server - it is easy for receivers to block the server. Write a browser-plugin and you are playing in somebody else's garden. Write a browser and now you get to pr
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Ask HN: Why every AI company is building a browser?
7 points by meerab 1y ago|9 comments
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by meerab 1y ago
I am building VideoToBe.com - I have found that whisperX works the most reliable. https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX It is built on top of OpenAI Whisper, so speech recognition is good, the transcript gives speaker tag
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by meerab 1y ago
YT transcripts definitely lack speaker ID. LLMs can infer speakers from context but miss nuance without proper speaker recognition. I have been tackling this while building VideoToBe.com. My current pipeline is Download Video -> Whisper
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by meerab 1y ago
View the transcript here https://videotobe.com/play/youtube/_PioN-CpOP0
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by meerab 1y ago
I am building a collection of Y Combinator video transcripts: https://videotobe.com/play/playlist/ycombinator . The goal is to transcribe and provide summaries, topics, notable quotes, and companies and people disc
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by meerab 1y ago
Interesting approach to transcript generation! I'm implementing a similar workflow for VideoToBe.com My Current Pipeline: Media Extraction - yt-dlp for reliable video/audio downloads Local Transcription - OpenAI Whisper running
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by meerab 1y ago
See complete transcript of Andrej Karpathy's video https://videotobe.com/play/youtube/LCEmiRjPEtQ
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by meerab 1y ago
Check out the transcription of Andrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco. https://videotobe.com/play/youtube/LCEmiRjPEtQ

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