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Can I ask why it's free? Seems like a great tool but I don't see any obvious monetization (which raises privacy concerns)

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Thank you for checking it out! The app is free and completely client side right now, there is no tracking code or login required to use it.

I do plan to monetize the app with a pro subscription, by adding premium features such as converting video formats, sharing links of the video, hiding the control bar and more.

The current feature set will remain free and free users can continue to benefit from bug fixes and improvements.

Please try to add only the sharing feature into the pro version and make it cross platform (like cloudapp), you'll get a lot more users that eventually upgrade that way.

Making artificial features in the pro version is just annoying, charge for real value like hosting.

yeah I'm not sure why either... either fully open source it or have some kind of roadmap saying that you plan on monetizing it later or anything. looks useful but I'm concerned about privacy implications of it... when the product is free: you are the product kinda thing.

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