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I quit my job over a year ago. Been bootstrapped on savings. I picked up a gig last year and only made $30K in 2019.

Hoping my efforts pay off.

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Unsolicited suggestion.

Hit up Courtland at Indie Hackers. He has a podcast and your story would be a perfect fit.

Should help drive some traffic your way as well

Love Indie Hackers.

I wonder how many guests get featured on there from cold outreach. It would be worth a shot. I enjoy being a guest on podcasts.

Check out the IH articles/interviews with veed.io , definitely a market for this type of product

Nice job! It looks like a ton of effort. What's the tech stack for something like this? All homegrown? I've wanted to mess around with screencast editing but programmatic video stuff in general seems daunting.

Yes it's daunting. You have to love it to be able to get through the hard times.

I am using React.js to build the UI and manage state.

Using FFMPEG and a combination of other rendering techniques on the backend.

Shout outs to

Vercel AWS React team

Awesome. React is my jam, hit me up if you need anything.

Nice. Hit me up on Twitter and lets talk @michaelaubry

FFMPEG is super powerful. Michael, do you take screenshots on a headless browser and stitch them using FFMPEG? At least, that's what I have done for a hobby project.

FFMPEG IS GOAT haha.

It took me awhile to understand how the I/O streams worked, and the complex filters worked, but once you get it there is a lot of power in your hand.

Yeah I did that initially but then I found a better technique. There are some pieces using that method and it's a fantastic approach until you reach 30 fps over the course of a 10 min video.

Do you mind sharing what the technique is?

I'd love to hear more about your backend structure. Would you mind going into a bit more detail on it?

I signed up. This is immediately useful and totally worth the cost. Loving the easy video captioning.

Hell yeah!!

Amazing work man! This looks and feels great!

Dropped it on producthunt, hope you get some boost there!

Holy shit this is awesome. Wow thank you!

Can I buy you a coffee or lunch? Hit me up on Twitter @michaelaubry that is very thoughtful of you :)

All good man, added you as a maker, accept the invite and promote it! It deserves to be seen more! :)

Also what does dropped it on PH mean?

It means your product is hunted, so you can join in as the maker and share it. The more people upvote it, the more visibility it gets on the front page of producthunt. It was a really popular startup launching ground before, now it's just meh, but can still get some nice leads :)

I think it really sucks when someone suddenly puts your product on producthunt before you're ready. You only get one chance there so please please producthunt hunters, think about reaching out to creators BEFORE you do this....

I’m sure it will. How long did you spend working in this before the first release?

(Is this the first release)

This is certainly the first time I've broadcasted it to a larger audience.

Back in April I started cold calling (IG DMs) and got a paying customer. Been working with them closely and I tend to enjoy product more than marketing.

Now I am just saying screw it let's ship and if things break oh well. It's not like I am launching a rocket into space.

I don't even need to make videos but this is so polished I'd like to try it out anyway, great work.

haha thanks for the kind words

This looks very polished. Good work, man.

Ingredients

Blood, time, sweat, and a lot of tears. Your words mean a lot to me, just to hear this after 10 months of grind is a happy feeling.

I am ready to get back to work though. The grind don't stop, just getting started.

Best of luck, I hope it pays off.

Thanks :)

How many people do you have on your team?

Mowgli and I https://storycreatorapp.com/about

I have a loving girlfriend Rachael and another dog Millie. They're extremely supportive.

I am looking to expand the team. Working on getting some angels on the team to put in some capital. So that I can hire people more talented and smarter.

Looks awesome! BTW, the 'About' page has a missing image (I'm assuming it's you).

I think there is an issue on mobile. Should work on desktop. I think the CSS doesnt have a height set or something.

I don't see it on desktop, which means I don't get to see Mowgli and I'm pretty disappointed about that.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.2 Safari/605.1.15

Have no fear Twitter is here. https://twitter.com/michaelaubry/status/1288516866617405441/...

This is when he got rice all over his nose haha. Carbs are important for engineering focus.

I'm on desktop.

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