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Show HN: HEVCut, AVIF photo encoding for iPhone, iPad and Mac

Posted by alepacheco-dev on Friday May 22, 2026 @09:02AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/video-compressor-hevcut/id6737538832

HEVCut is a photo and video compression app for Apple platforms I have been working on. Today's update adds AVIF as an output format for photos, which I believe makes it the first app on the App Store to ship AVIF encoding on iOS.Apple added AVIF decode in 2022 (iOS 16, macOS Ventura) but never shipped an encoder, public or private. Photos cannot export AVIF, ImageIO cannot write it, and no...

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:54PM (#46861394) 

  Location: London, UK

  Remote: Yes (flexible)

  Willing to relocate: Yes

  Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS, Tailwind CSS · PostgreSQL, MongoDB,
   Cloudflare Workers/Pages/KV, Firebase, GCP, AWS · OpenAI APIs, PostHog · Swift, SwiftUI

  Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-pacheco-8b6323354/

  Email: ale [at] alepacheco [dot] dev

  Full-stack TypeScript developer with 8+ years of experience. Currently indie, shipped 5 iOS
  apps to the App Store, each with its own Next.js site and Cloudflare Workers backend.

  Previously built search frontend for a major travel agency in Barcelona across 4 brands, with
  A/B testing and an NLP flight search prototype with the ML team. Then joined a fintech in
  London, led a React migration, and mentored the team. After that, ran my own consultancy doing
   Node.js/TypeScript backends and cloud infra on GCP and AWS.

  Comfortable end-to-end: React/Next.js, Node.js/NestJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cloudflare
  Workers, and third-party API integrations (OpenAI, Twilio, Yahoo Finance). I ship product, not
   just code.

  Looking for: full-stack roles. Contract or permanent.

Show HN: Stash: End-to-end encrypted file sharing with zero friction

Posted by alepacheco-dev on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:54AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://stash-app.xyz/

I built Stash because I was tired of the usual tradeoff in file sharing: either force recipients to create accounts or give up on privacy.How it works 1. Upload from the iOS, iPad or Mac app 2. Get a shareable link 3. Recipients download in the browser, no app, no account, nothing to installEncryption model Files are encrypted on device using AES 256 GCM before upload. The encryption key...

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HEVCut – AI-Coded iOS App for Video Compression and iCloud Storage Savings

Posted by alepacheco-dev on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:05AM
from the self-post dept.

Hey HN! I built HEVCut, an iOS app that helps free up iCloud storage by re-encoding videos to HEVC (H.265) while preserving metadata. Large video files were a constant issue for me, and I wanted an efficient, privacy-friendly way to shrink them—without relying on cloud services or manual file management.How It WorksHEVCut scans your entire video library, including files stored in iCloud but not...

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HEVCut – An AI-Built iOS App to Free Up iCloud Storage by Compressing Videos

Posted by alepacheco-dev on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:31AM
from the self-post dept.

Hey HN!I built HEVCut, an iOS app that helps free up iCloud storage by re-encoding videos to HEVC (H.265) while preserving metadata. Large video files were a constant issue for me, and I wanted an efficient, privacy-friendly way to shrink them—without relying on cloud services or manual file management.How It WorksHEVCut scans your entire video library, including files stored in iCloud but not...

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Re:Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:10PM (#43041405)
Privacy Pass is great for reducing friction, but it still relies on trust in the issuer. A ZK-based approach (e.g., using zk-SNARKs or anonymous credentials) could let users prove they’re paid subscribers without revealing their identity or even interacting with Kagi’s servers beyond the initial proof. This would remove the need for trust while keeping the experience just as seamless. Would love to see more services explore this direction.
Re:Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:06PM (#43041362)
I think you could use zero knowledge proofs here to accomplish the same thing but without having to worry about renewing tokens etc

Show HN: HEVCut – iPhone app to save iCloud storage by compressing videos

Posted by alepacheco-dev on Sunday November 10, 2024 @07:22AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hey HN!I created HEVCut, an iOS app that helps save iCloud storage by compressing videos into HEVC format with optimized metadata. It’s a straightforward solution for reducing video file sizes significantly (up to 50% or more), which speeds up load times and keeps quality high. I built it after struggling to manage my iCloud storage, especially with videos, and wanted something that didn’t rely...

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Re:Made an app to re-encode my iCloud videos on Saturday November 09, 2024 @09:00AM (#42094461)
My iCloud library was growing a lot with videos so I created my first iOS app using Cursor+Claude.

It finds the biggest videos in your library, downloads them and re-encodes them on HEVC which saves a lot of space, it also brings them from 4k down to FullHD (optional)