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sunnybeetroot 11 hours ago [-]
Posts like these now feel the equivalent of “I didn’t want to order Indian takeaway so I hired a chef to make me butter chicken”
petra 11 hours ago [-]
But this guy will probably get hired because of this.
saulpw 10 hours ago [-]
He works at Tesla already.
wassimgr 11 hours ago [-]
It took 4 hours and 20 commits :)
sunnybeetroot 11 hours ago [-]
That would make a good butter chicken
vitally3643 9 hours ago [-]
This is by far the least interesting/worst kind of project emerging lately.
"I didn't want to pay trivial money for a product, so I paid nontrivial money to have an AI make a version that's worse in every way that matters"
Who cares?
canthonytucci 8 hours ago [-]
But they own this version instead of renting it. And it’s been released for free to the world.
That’s a way that the “worse” version is better to some people.
Also, assuming this person used $200/month subscription to some robot, and they used 5 days of of their quota, the money comes out about even after the first month or two, no?
wassimgr 9 hours ago [-]
Please ignore the attention-grabbing title, the novelty here is that it runs fully in the browser with local/offline models that showcase some of the new browser technologies. This is not meant to be as replacement / fully-featured product, but rather a tech demo and an argument for what "personal software" can look like in the future.
saulpw 9 hours ago [-]
Have you tried using this to actually edit anything? The local transcription is trash (slow, tons of repeated words, no speaker diarization, no option to upload a transcript or use ElevenLabs). I made a few edits to a sample episode I have, clicked on the upper left for a menu, it went to the front page and...I guess it lost the transcription and the edits with no way to get it back. Cool idea but it seems unusable at the moment, I'd say you have a lot more weekends of work to have something suitable for either Show HN or Product Hunt.
wassimgr 8 hours ago [-]
Just pushed a PR that fixes hallucinations and lets it handle longer form video + the option to select a larger (~600mb) model that has much better transcription accuracy.
Also just added the ability to save/restore projects! :)
dgellow 10 hours ago [-]
I will never understand that thinking. You didn’t like that a service you need asks to be paid, so you paid an LLM to create a free competitor that you now advertise online. Do you not see the race to the bottom you’re contributing to? $24 doesn’t sound outrageous at all.
Such a weird way to frame your project
wassimgr 10 hours ago [-]
The title is largely for attention-grabbing + relating the project to a product people know already; obviously this is not a replacement, the goal is to experiment with local/offline models and test the limits of the browser and showcase some of the new technologies like SharedArrayBuffer. I work at the limit of javascript performance and making projects like these is how I teach myself new browser APIs.
dgellow 9 hours ago [-]
If it’s something you’ve done yourself, and not Claude generated, then kudos, that’s definitely the good way to learn
isawczuk 10 hours ago [-]
It's was always a case to describe your idea in context already known to users. Examples Uber for X, or eBay for Y.
I think it's a great way to learn to build alternatives for payed services. Look at cal.com
Farrynet 9 hours ago [-]
4 hours and 20 commits with Cursor is wild for getting something like this off the ground. How much of that time was spent fighting with prompt context vs actually structuring the browser media APIs?
swaminarayan 13 hours ago [-]
How does this perform on longer videos, especially on lower-end machines? Is the transcription and video processing entirely local in the browser?
zeandcode 12 hours ago [-]
Interesting, i have the same goal except it's for daily productivity tool github.com/slaveofcode/goodwebtools
ZiiS 13 hours ago [-]
Whilst I love opensource; hitting with $24/mo saving when you invest 100x that much in your time is probably not the way to sell it.
ray_v 13 hours ago [-]
Where it pays off is not when you reach parity with the built product compared to the vendored product - it's when you can continue to extend or customize the capabilities when the original vendor can not or will not support the features you can now build
ezekg 13 hours ago [-]
I promise you something like this will never monetarily "pay off."
saulpw 11 hours ago [-]
I don't think they mean "monetarily". But once you have some reasonable parity you can implement your own features/workflow as you want them and not be reliant on Descript.
ezekg 10 hours ago [-]
The context is i.r.t. the monthly cost and the cost of one's time, which has a monetary value, as well as the cost of tokens. So I think it's rightful to assume the topic is of a monetary pay off.
pajamasam 13 hours ago [-]
From the commits, it looks like it only took OP about 4 hours with Cursor.
wassimgr 11 hours ago [-]
^ this :)
jadamczyk 13 hours ago [-]
The name has a collision with a programming language related to ocaml - ReScript, which evolved from ReasonML
KellyCriterion 10 hours ago [-]
So you collect now 22,99 USD / month? :-D
wassimgr 7 hours ago [-]
one peanut / month is the current price
saulpw 11 hours ago [-]
I hate Descript, not because of the cost but because of their dark patterns. (I learned recently that their CEO is the former CEO of Groupon, which explains a lot.) So I'd love something like this. But I need to edit an audio-only podcast. Is there a reason that it only accepts video files?
darepublic 11 hours ago [-]
I think you can use ffmpeg to turn your audio into a video file
"I didn't want to pay trivial money for a product, so I paid nontrivial money to have an AI make a version that's worse in every way that matters"
Who cares?
That’s a way that the “worse” version is better to some people.
Also, assuming this person used $200/month subscription to some robot, and they used 5 days of of their quota, the money comes out about even after the first month or two, no?
Please give it another try! https://github.com/wassgha/rescript/issues/13#issuecomment-5...
Such a weird way to frame your project