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A comment on Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k in the last 4 months. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by Solvency on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:51PM (#39993697)
were talking about a tiny desktop app that wraps ffmpeg CLI. this is the perfect use case for it, over, say, VISUAL STUDIO CODE.
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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by cglong on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:16PM (#39993987)
I actually think VSCode is one of the best use cases for Electron. It enables a robust and well-documented set of APIs for extension and theme developers, which IMO is why it has one of the most thriving extension ecosystems out there.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but not in Developer Division.

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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by skydhash on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @09:02PM (#39997386)
> It enables a robust and well-documented set of APIs for extension and theme developers

Didn't VIM and Emacs have that for ages? Look at https://vimawesome.com/. I think the remote development extension is nice, but most people would just SSH and run their editor on the server or sync their project's files.

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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by bitwize on Monday April 15, 2024 @06:47AM (#40038792)
The Emacs APIs aren't exactly robust in the modern sense. They don't have the security and privilege isolation that VS Code's TypeScript APIs have.
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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by ubercow13 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:17PM (#39993999)
The perfect use case for a massive incredibly complex browser runtime is...a tiny desktop app? What?
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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by CyberDildonics on Thursday April 11, 2024 @09:30AM (#40001934)
Do you as a user seriously want a 400MB binary that takes up 1 GB of memory at least just to have a sluggish interface to run a command line program for you when it could be an instant GUI that takes up 1 MB of memory ?

Why would anyone want something taking up literally 1000x the resources it needs to?

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