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8mb.video is a service that compresses video, images and audio to just under Discord's 8MB upload limit.

Possibly - whats your use case?

Thank you for taking the time to write all this great feedback.

I am very appreciative.

Photos: Yes I actually recently added support for photos. It just resizes them to 1080p resolution. So not very flexible but all software must start somewhere. Give it a shot? They tend to be around 0.1MB.

I bought the domain 8mb.app .. maybe should switch names since it does more then video?

What kind of watermark do you want to add? text? graphic?

What video resolution do you want? Right now it reduces video to 720p, or keeps it the same if already smaller.

> It would be nice to see the options before I click upload file.

What do you mean?

> Perhaps it would be nice to add some javascript trick to change the link from "Download xyz.mp4" to "You have already downloaded the video. Click here to upload a new one."

Yes! Good idea! Will do.

> Perhaps it should be something like "8mb.uploaded_file_name.mp4".

That would make sense. I will consider it.

If you have more feedback, I'm listening because those were great points.

Yes. That's their free limit. If you pay $5/mo you get 50MB and $10/month gets you 100MB uploads. All of which seem like low limits to me, shrug.

The neat thing is that incoming bandwidth to AWS is free, so people upload 100's of megabytes and we only get billed for the 8MB we send back. (CPU time/cost to transcode is negligible).

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/management/tour/ looks interesting but feels more like selling a book in a book store then selling my own API on my own domain.

What problem are you trying to solve?

Let novice users (or even lazy pros) create a professional quality podcast without needing extra software or hosting.

Re: upload an audio file

Soundcloud built their business around doing just this, albeit for a different market. They do support Podcasts but you can tell from the interface it is meant for music primarily.

I've made a website that gives you a disposable phone number, similiar to popular mobile apps (Burner, Extra Phone Number, etc.) (The latter of which I built.)

For HN only (I haven't posted this anywhere else yet) you can use the service for free (yes you will get a disposable phone number to use how you like). Just click Purchase Credits and use the credit card number 4111111111111111. I will disable this once I get enough testers.

If you do sign up, please try it out and report feedback, since it does cost me money to tun.

Known issues:

* FB login only (embarrassing, but temporary)

* New message notification goes away prematurely

Thanks for the attention.

I agree the connection is weak. The similarity is that both services provide a short URL for a resource. In the case of TinURL, it is a longer URL. In the case of gping.io, it is your vehicle.

Gimme a mulligan on the tagline and I promise to come up with something better :)

Okay, my solution requires a $5 adapter.

I did not know about this; really exciting to find a competitor with a solution 20 times as expensive. Thank you!

I agree users will want something better. I want to learn a little more about who the potential users are before implementing an authentication system for them.

For example, if this were to be strictly a consumer app, then Google or Facebook auth would make sense. If this ends up being used by businesses, that speaks to another solution perhaps.

Thanks for the feedback!

Thank you for your comments. Agree with everything you wrote.

The words 'fleet management' may have bounced around in my head once or twice. Nod.

smoochies

If you can point me to some other boilerplate TOS I can copy (freely, without stealing), I'd be happy to change it.

When building a site, I like to focus on features and usability. The TOS is usually just copied from another of my own projects.

Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! The site now has 400+ users.

I've implemented MANY of the suggestions and bugfixes posted to this HN thread, so I really appreciate the comments.

Yup. You can set what parameters you consider beautiful.

See previous comparison to ifttt in comments :)

Yes! I have just fixed this bug. Give it another try?

Check out the "Magic Window" Mac App :)

Whoa, and now it has 65 likes since adding the button 53 minutes ago. Heh, so I guess that was a good idea ;)

Thanks for the idea. I've now implemented this suggestion.

Yes, it should work with UK zipcodes :)

Will do.

Yup ;)

Well, the service should be especially nice for you, since the beautiful days are more special? :)

Great question. ifttt is far more powerful -- and complicated.

Also, it seems to only support ONE criteria, such as "Sunny" condition OR temperature above a certain range. Maybe I'm missing it, but I can't find a way to replicate BDB.

Another perspective: There is something special about the packaging of meeting this niche use case. The e-mail notifications are super upbeat, have inspirational quotes, etc.

Also, BDB is easy enough my Mom has figured out how to sign up.

Well, even more: I have a weather widget on my phone -- on the home screen, even. That makes "knowing the weather" even that much easier.

So clearly, this isn't about convenience of knowing the weather. This is about _specially highlighting_ the fact that today's weather will be PERFECT. As in, bringing attention to the fact that the day really is great.

The point is to have fun, enjoy life, and to have a beautiful day.

I built the service because I personally wanted a service like it. Perhaps others will enjoy it.

I know the organizer. It should be a fun event.

Link to event: http://plancast.com/p/7thr/hacker-dojo-expansion-party

Great point, thanks.

Did I mention we made this entire site on a BUS RIDE? :)

Thanks for the bug report! We fixed the issue.