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Despite all learnings, the cold reality is that this was a failed startup… but I’m trying it again. This time I’m doing things differently.

Hope you guys had a good read and learned a thing or two :) Let me know if you have any questions.

My pleasure. I'm glad you were able to get something from it :)

Despite all learnings, the cold reality is that this was a failed startup… but I’m trying it again. This time I’m doing things differently.

Hope you guys had a good read and learned a thing or two :) Let me know if you have any questions.

Hey! Looking forward to give you access to our product. We are working hard to launch Zecoda in the next weeks. We’d love to hear from you and get your help to shape our product before we officially launch. Drop us a line with any feedback (or questions) that you have for us.

Zecoda allows you to turn your Sketch files into front-end code automatically.

We built Zecoda to help accelerate our product development. We are using Zecoda to easily go from a Sketch file to a fully responsive web project.

As front-end developers, we often found ourselves demotivated with the design hand-off process. It takes time, lots of meetings and boring back and forth questions. We started to see an uncomfortable pattern when refactoring or reusing old code for new projects to accelerate the workflow.

Sure, there are great software to help us with this problem (looking at you Zeplin) but it still require us to look at each layer or component individually. Not that fun IOHO.

We truly believe automating repetitive tasks is the way forward for software. With this in mind we are fully dedicated to:

- Automate software development repetitive tasks

- Remove the (stupid) hurdle from design to code

- Accelerate product development

We are working hard to launch Zecoda's platform in the next weeks. We’d love to hear from you and get your help to shape our product before we officially launch. Drop us a line at john@zecoda.com with any feedback (or questions) that you have for us.

If you think Zecoda can help your workflow, request early access below.

Request early access: https://zecoda.com/#subscribe

Demo: https://zecoda.com/#demo

I stated it is a fact because of the revenue numbers of Wix and Squarespace (both around $500 Million / year). These numbers establish that they are solving an actual problem. If you look for the next ten years and our kids start to crate Apps and Websites with these tools, we can state with some confidence it will happen. Don't you agree?

Interesting point. I have to agree 100%. No matter how you create an application it will always have to have code. Even if for the user it may seem a "no-code" app.

I agree with you "waste" is a strong word when talking about learning new concepts.

On the FE side I stated it is a fact because of the revenue numbers of Wix and Squarespace (both around $500 Million / year). These numbers establish that they are solving a problem, i.e. non-technical people creating and managing their own applications. I can see my kids creating their apps and sites on a visual base...

The point is: can / should it be done on a "visual basis"?

Please see my first reply.

I want to launch a discussion on the future of software development. It’s a fact that front-end development will be deprecated in a near future with tools like Webflow, Squarespace or Wix. This will mean that the future of front-end development will be made by designers or anyone with good sense of style. My question for debate is: shouldn’t we already have a tool that allowed us to build software on a visual / no code matter?

A non technical founder that don’t want to waste one year learning to code should have tools available to build software without knowing any programming language? Makes sense or is this just utopian?

Thanks for letting me know. I'm new to HN :)

Hey doh! Thanks for reaching out. We have no videos indexed and we are doing strictly visual search - we are Computer Vision evangelists :)

Thanks for your availability, likewise: feel free to drop us a note.

Thanks gondo! Please try our tool and give us feedback ;) Which one got the best results?

ikeboy: At this stage we are not indexing to control server costs. However, our goal is to have all videos indexed to reduce the searching time. We are searching the web based on keywords to reduce the searching space.

Thanks mholmes680... probably related to the previous owner... not sure how we can change that. If you have any insight please share

And thanks for the heads up :)

At this stage we analyze YouTube and Facebook. But we are also able to do it with LinkedIn, Vimeo, Twitter, Instagram, the Chinese platform Tencent Video and a couple of porn sites :D

Hi abdias, thanks for your question! At this stage we only inform our users where the uploaded video is online. Do you think we should deal with fair-use?

Hi tokenizerrr, I was counting down until someone mentioned porn, you were the first!!! YAY!!!! :)))

Hi rixrax!

We struggled with that, but it was the only way we found to provide a fair and good service. You can check an example report on our dashboard (https://dashboard.spotter.tech). Check Psy video for example.

Thanks for your feedback!

Hi personlurking! Yes, because we just launched today and need to control our servers we are asking for you email to send you the reports and hear back from your experience. Thanks for trying :)

Hey emodendroket, that's one of the use cases we are better at: recognizing videos from a scan of the TV.

Hi robbiemitchell, we can also recognize video with that technique :) You should try the platform

Hey CommieBobDole, that's exactly the problem we are solving. Our technology is robust enough to detect all those tweaks.

Thanks for starting a good discussion smnscu. That's exactly what we are here for: we are solving that problem!

Hi mholmes680! That's important for us to know. Can you share some details? What page were you in or what were you doing?

Thanks for asking aaaawweeeee. Answers below:

Do you track what people search? - No, we just get the video and search the web based on the keywords.

What do you do with that data? - We don't keep the videos. We use our own fingerprints.

Who do you share it with? - With the uploader of the video

What's the business model - Trying to figure it out... Have any suggestion? :)

Hey mysterypie. Yes we just launch and want to collect as much feedback as possible.

Thanks for that note, we are checking that. The good thing is that we were able to found a single frame from the original video :)

rwinn, thanks for checking our platform and for your patience waiting for the results. It's great to know your experience and the results you got (or lack of those :P). We'll check it and get back to you with some news.

(we just launch the tool and it's still on Beta).

Thanks jbrooksuk. And do you think it's too big? Did you prefer the size of 5S?