<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: meerab</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=meerab</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:51:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=meerab" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congrats on shipping this!<p>I went down the same path for videotobe.com, fully client-side with ffmpeg.wasm, and it fell over on longer videos. The memory ceiling and encode times pushed me to a cloud processing pipeline.<p>You've managed to solve both, the WebCodecs plus Pixi plus ffmpeg.wasm split looks like the right decomposition in hindsight.I processed 3+ hrs of media using VidStudio and it held up. Nicely done!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:01:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852186</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852186</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Marketing for Founders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You stop paying for ads and the product link disappears.  Reason why founders tend to go for reddit is because it gets indexed by Google and LLMs and the link gets 'preserved'.<p>What is your experience in stickiness of users after acquisition via Ad? Given crack down by reddit mods for posting links - I am considering just buying ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:00:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384960</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We run a similar setup in production at VideoToBe – FFmpeg inside Cloudflare Containers with R2 mounted as a local filesystem via FUSE (tigrisfs).<p>On the debate about Cloudflare vs Fly vs spot instances – for bursty, infrequent workloads that already use R2 for storage, Containers are a natural fit.<p>The container accesses R2 over Cloudflare's internal network, so files never hit the public internet.<p>Check out our implementation - 
<a href="https://videotobe.com/blog/how-we-process-video-with-cloudflare-containers" rel="nofollow">https://videotobe.com/blog/how-we-process-video-with-cloudfl...</a><p>(The main difference is we don't use Cloudflare Queues in conjunction with Cloudflare Containers. You can set max_instances to your desired settings to process parallel requests.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382692</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Layoffs at Block"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spot on. This tweet will go down in history — right next to Jack's first tweet. We all understand businesses require difficult decisions. This is one of the best layoff letters I've seen. Short, honest, and human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:31:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176121</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a greatly researched article, and the site is just awesome!<p>Kanchipuram Saree has a rich history, and I learned so much more by reading this article.<p>I am intrigued by the Kanchipuram saree and have dreamed about owning one. The digital ledger is a unique idea – if authenticity is established, it would be easy to invest in this as art piece.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:43:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984664</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on VideoToBe — a audio and video Transcription service with an AI chat layer. Whisper for transcription, then you can chat with your recordings instead of rewatching.<p>Also building simple tools for simple task such as converting audio-to-video to post on youtube and more for business users who find Premiere/Final Cut overkill for basic tasks. videotobe.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:28:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962242</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>VideoToBe.com - Transcription & Chat for Audio/Video (board meetings, lecture notes, churches summons etc.)<p>Started as Pay-per-use service (upload the file and receive an email with transcript). Now we also offer subscription based service for media library, AI summaries, chat Q&A, insights/highlights.<p>Makes between $200 to $600 per month.<p><a href="https://videotobe.com" rel="nofollow">https://videotobe.com</a><p>Tips for sub growth in transcription space?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:04:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339623</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Cloudflare was down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is up now!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:04:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158447</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please don’t get a dog just because you’re having an existential crisis. Dogs are lifelong responsibilities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:34:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46123890</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46123890</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46123890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Ask HN: How to generate flipbook-style animations from video?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you! It certainly looks like Rotoscoping.<p>And EbSynth looks amazing! I wonder what model/tech will track the moment so well!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:09:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018724</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: How to generate flipbook-style animations from video?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been seeing a lot of hand-drawn flipbook animations on YouTube/TikTok. For example:<p>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ub_ZmzOrh5g<p>The creators say they spend 3-5 days drawing this. 
How do I generate this animation say in Python? Any recommended models, libraries, or workflows?<p>I am thinking ffmpeg to extract images -> pose estimation -> Line art -> Assemble into Video</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012117">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012117</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:32:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012117</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46012117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Ask HN: How to boost Gemini transcription accuracy for company names?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use a two-pass approach - first pass with ASR (OpenAI Whisper) and second pass with an LLM. 
I ask users to provide context upfront and use that as the "initial_prompt" parameter in Whisper: <a href="https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/963#discussioncomment-4987057" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/963#discussion...</a><p>Gemini might have similar capabilities for custom vocabulary, though I'm not certain about their specific implementation. The two-pass ASR+LLM approach could work with Gemini's output as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:51:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45714696</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45714696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45714696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Working on <a href="https://videotobe.com" rel="nofollow">https://videotobe.com</a> a audio/video transcription service.
VideoToBe started as a user friendly Whisper wrapper — but is evolving into a full pipeline that extracts, summarizes, and structures insights from multimedia content.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:52:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563599</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "OpenAI DevDay 2025: Opening keynote [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I created transcript for it for anyone wanting to read instead of listen!<p><a href="https://videotobe.com/play/youtube/hS1YqcewH0c" rel="nofollow">https://videotobe.com/play/youtube/hS1YqcewH0c</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:12:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496885</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My actual time breakdown as a solo developer:<p>10% Daily time to learn about various AI tools and improve my workflow.<p>20% Procrastination (this might be way more than what I'm willing to accept. But this is HN, I want to appear smart )<p>20% Writing detailed description of features and breaking down task lists, writing acceptance tests.<p>20% AI Coding (Claude Code)<p>20% Testing + Production</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:41:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45215927</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45215927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45215927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Personal opinion:<p>Claude code is more user friendly than cursor with its CLI like interface. The file modifications are easy to view and it automatically runs psql, cd, ls , grep command.  Output of the commands is shown in more user friendly fashion. Agents and MCPs are easy to organized and used.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:08:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110743</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. /init will initialize the project and save initial project information and preference.<p>Ask Claude to update the preference and document the moment you realize that claude has deviated away from the path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:50:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110611</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am working on VideoToBe.com - and my stack is NextJS, Postgresql and FastAPI.<p>Claude code is amazing at producing code for this stack. 
It does excellent job at outputting ffmpeg, curl commands, linux shell script etc.<p>I have written detailed project plan and feature plan in MarkDown - and Claude has no trouble understanding the instructions.<p>I am curious - what is your usecase?</p>
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<p>I have barely written any code since my switch to Claude Code! It's the best thing since sliced bread!<p>Here's what works for me:<p>- Detailed claude.md containing overall information about the project.<p>- Anytime Claude chooses a different route that's not my preferred route - ask my preference to be saved in global memory.<p>- Detailed planning documentation for each feature - Describe high-level functionality.<p>- As I develop the feature, add documentation with database schema, sample records, sample JSON responses, API endpoints used, test scripts.<p>- MCP, MCP, MCP! Playwright is a game changer<p>The more context you give upfront, the less back-and-forth you need. It's been absolutely transformative for my productivity.<p>Thank you Claude Code team!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:46:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110094</link><dc:creator>meerab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by meerab in "Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your routine seems completely normal. This is Not Youtube addiction and procrastination. You work 8 hours - that's already your productivity. The idea that your personal time also needs to be optimized and highly productive is tech bro nonsense.<p>After a full workday, your brain wants easy dopamine. That is being human. You're not a startup. The people posting about 5am routines are just performing productivity online.<p>Maybe go to bed earlier or  be more mindful when it comes to digital dooms scroll.</p>
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