I think it’s because BM has a cult following and part of that is because BMs software is notoriously high quality and they seem to be doing things the right way bg avoiding subscriptions and putting real resources into engineering effort for their cameras but also the software.

I, for one, was excited to see a BM product available on my iPhone now so I can see why others are just as excited. Google has made the front page for less noteworthy apps before I’m sure.

People vote for it. There is no such thing as “deserve to be at the top”. If the HN crowd show interests and upvote, then it rises.

My perspective:

Blackmagic has great, mostly professional hardware (cameras and more) with high-quality, stable software again focused on pro-market. They also have amateur or entry-level stuff, but even those have excellent quality.

So Blackmagic deciding to create an app for iPhone might say they consider the iPhone camera good enough for them. And this is a message worth considering.

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

A lot of the world is creating content, and this includes hackers. My most recent TikTok was about password managers.

Timecode makes this a gamechanger, especially for the casual filmer.

I've been messing around with crappy action cams for things like recording my kids performances and the like. I've been using two cameras (it's nice to have a second PoV, especially when someone walks in front of the camera), but it is a world of pain on these cameras.

I came *this close* to buying a pair of GoPro Hero 12s this past week because they finally have fully baked timecode into the firmware, but it seems like they also have problems with overheating when recording for 25 minutes inside (let alone in the sun).

This release means I can use a couple old iPhones I have retired, and likely get pretty good timesync out of it, automatically, without having to go into the videos and spend literally hours syncing multiple camera angles and dealing with drift from different cameras.

Our discussion is certainly contributing to keeping it there longer than necessary

Because once upon a time people made software instead of training models and some of those people still like to see what’s going on in the world of actual software development.

hackernews is about what's important to the one posting

I'm surprised too. Isn't this essentially an ad? I guess it's OK because it's a free app.