cryogenicplanet

Hello HN

Socialify is super simple tool to create social images for Github project. It has tons of customization options from backgrounds to fonts, and badges!

Socialify works best as an image as a service, where it automatically renders an svg image for you. This image will keep updating it badges and description with any changes to the repository

The project is also open source and still early in terms of development:

https://github.com/wei/socialify

Let me know what you think!

Currently there is a restriction on size of file because it has to process the video in your memory and isn't saving content on the fly to disk but that is definitely something I can try to add moving forward

Thanks!

Already tracking the label issue here https://github.com/Etwas-Builders/modfy.video/issues/88 will resolve that tonight

I think that's another great thing for me with this product, is that it almost costs nothing to run it (Thanks netlify)

Yeah this is definitely try to push that dream of not having to upload/download software and doing most if not all things on the browser itself

I think this is as a result of the video have to be uploaded into RAM to be processed, this is definitely something I want to try to fix where I access the videos on the native file system to allow much larger files

Thanks for the feedback, will definitely take this into account and iterate on this feedback.

Someone opened an issue related to this too, so will update it on that issue https://github.com/Etwas-Builders/modfy.video/issues/88

It does for non technical users or someone who wants to do a one off transcode job. Most people wouldn't be comfortable using FFmpeg in the command line.

And for the people who are comfortable with that, this provide some convenience in not having to look up command(something I always do) but its never meant to be a replacement for hardcore FFmpeg users

Yeah I do think there is a performance bottleneck here with WASM being quite a bit slower than native performance. But I think the idea is that WASM performance is only going to get better as the technology keeps evolving, and that gap will be bridged.

I'd say the overall performance of the tool itself is a bit mixed. There are some task where it performances really well (trimming, converting photos to montage) but some where it is horrible(transcoding to VP9)

It is definitely slower than using ffmpeg normally, but the idea is for more non technical users it adds convenience and they don't have to use a command line.

Yeah this version doesn't have hardware acceleration, but if I am not wrong WASM has hardware acceleration in development or coming soon.

Hello HN

Modfy is a purely browser-based privacy-first video tool capable of performing tasks like converting, compression, etc without uploading your files.

I thought it would be cool to process video in the browser using Web Assembly and FFmpeg

The project is also open source and based on https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

Let me know what you think!

Currently in the Spring Open lab and truly loved it so far, the mentors are great and it has been an awesome way to distract ourselves during COVID and working on something cool. It is really cool that Mozilla is conducting this program again in the summer.

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Been working on a Twitter bot to automatically source information, honestly, its been the only thing keeping me alive and not super bored.

The stack is Node.js and Python(Tornado)

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