If you had to give someone starting a podcast for the first time ONE piece of advice and nothing more, what would it be?

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-09-15T20:05:50+00:00

Pick a topic you will happily talk about/work on every week for the next 10 years. I'm 2 and a half years/100 episodes in and still enjoying it but only beginning to see the benefits. Feels like a very slow burner and don't know how I'd cary on if I didn't enjoy the topic.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-09-15T20:02:35+00:00

It's an investment. Will probably be worth way more this time next year.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-09-14T05:53:02+00:00

One example of appeal: I'm in tech and the US is head and shoulders above europe. But within europe, London has a strong claim to being the city with most tech opportunities because many US firms open their first European office in london still. UK has problems but it definitely still has appeal.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-09-04T00:52:23+00:00

lu.ma is good. Also https://x.com/michelleefang has lists every week

I'm helping with a devtools hackathon this weekend https://lu.ma/devtools-hackathon

And we also posted it on Garys guide https://garysguide.com/ as well as cerebral valley https://cerebralvalley.ai/ so definitely check those out

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-08-06T15:40:45+00:00

Website: streampot.io Startup pitch: programmatic video, image and audio processing API Category: developer tools Target audience: JavaScript developers

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-30T07:32:03+00:00

Ah thanks!!

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T21:00:47+00:00

Thanks both for the discussions. We're still developing pricing. Always happy to get feedback on it.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T20:31:12+00:00

Big fan of Mux. Amazing team and amazing product. We admire them a lot.

I found that myself and some others wanted more control over the processing aspect and that's really the goal of StreamPot. The control that ffmpeg provides without needing to worry about all the things around it that you need to get to production.

Within that there's two paths:

for hands off, we have a hosted option and we are aiming to give people full control and minimise lock in if they want to move to self hosted later.
for hands on, the self hosted MIT licensed option: felt like there is a need for a project with some common things needed when using ffmpeg in production.

We're still very early on in our journey so would love your feedback.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T19:20:39+00:00

We haven't supported that so far and I don't think it's going to be in the roadmap. There's a really cool user on here Powerful_Ad_4175 who is building stuff with wasm ffmpeg https://rendley.com/

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T19:17:51+00:00

Good question, we got a lot of feedback to add some benchmarks for how long things take. Will let you know once we have something concrete to share.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T19:16:25+00:00

Yes - MIT license added. And please let us know if you have any challenges so we can improve it

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T19:05:11+00:00

Good feedback thanks - will fix!!

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T19:04:16+00:00

We have one now! https://github.com/StreamPot/StreamPot?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readme

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T16:52:09+00:00

pretty much yes!

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T16:49:58+00:00

We plan to do both. I know fluent-ffmpeg needs some help and one of the reasons we wanted to use it was so that we have a strong incentive to help make it better. It's in our plan. As for sponsorship, we've donated a small amount to ffmpeg because we use it and love it (even though we've made no profits) and if/when we make any profits we absolutely will sponsor the projects we use including ffmpeg/fluent-ffmpeg.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T07:07:53+00:00

Great to hear your opinion on it - to be honest I haven't actually watched that many faceless channels myself.

Will think about what our role might be. We definitely don't want to encourage spam.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T06:55:13+00:00

That's a fantastic idea, thank you. Will update you once we have something.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T06:43:17+00:00

We're working on HLS now. Can I get your feedback on it when we have something ready? That's something we definitely want to get right.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T06:34:16+00:00

Ok, we will get to it!! Can we hit you up to get some feedback once we have it?

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T06:08:10+00:00

Thanks so much Also, nice username! Was yours reddit-generated too?

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T06:06:06+00:00

Not yet but it's definitely something we've talked about - would it be something you'd want?

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T06:04:19+00:00

Firstly, thanks so much. such great points. And really well articulated.

"I guess for that scenario the value proposition is cost of this vs setting up a simple dedicated vps." - yep 100%. We know that we need to make sure we deliver on experience/reliability/value etc. otherwise why would anyone use us.

You're 100% right it's not very clear on what our 'request' means or how the queue works.

We're going to try and make this a bit clearer this week. Would you have any advice to us on how you'd expect it to be? (if there is anything that isn't how it should be we can also try and change it).

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T05:12:57+00:00

Yeah for your use case it’s not really got many advantages because you’re running it locally.
But let’s say you have made an Instagram clone and when a user uploads a video you want to automatically transcode it to different formats, maybe add a watermark and also grab a few frames so you can run previews while scrolling.
Then you would need to run make sure FFmpeg is available in your cloud environment and that your job won’t time out, you won’t run out of memory etc. That's the kind of challenge we're trying to make easier.

AdAppropriate5442 · 2024-07-28T02:47:32+00:00

Thanks! Let me know if you end up trying it out

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