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terranivium on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:40AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Fully on the decompile hype train here - I'm wondering how much longer the traditional software market has? I've recently been moving my app ideas over to an open source approach. Do games differ to tools, which are much more defined tasks for AI to replicate?
great execution of the idea!
feedback would be welcome as its difficult to deal with every system configuration
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terranivium on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:37PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/terranivium/chillsweep
I was frustrated with the manual busy work of cleaning appdata leftovers and how much most traditional cleaner apps miss. Most cleaners I've used in the past simply check a fixed list of common junk folders.I've been playing around with an app idea I've called ChillSweep, a free, open-source cleanup tool for Windows and Mac. ChillSweep checks folders against what's actually installed on your...
Thanks John, really interesting take - I feel like I gone with the gradual shift over time, and may not have voted with my wallet as strongly.
I have thought about this a lot. It might make us more considerate of what we're building, i think the speed at which we can mvp has made us less critical of what we output.
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terranivium on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:43AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Recently I have been really curious how the wider tech community feels about subscription/SaaS models and its impact on software. I recently developed an app which I changed from a subscription model to perpetual licensing as it fit better, and honestly felt better.How does it influence your purchasing habits, and how many of you feel like it affects what is being made (for better or worse)?
great suggestion - the transcription tab is already quite limited for real estate. i recommend trying out the free trial to get a feel for the workflow.
just watched Das Boot the other day, perfect timing!
Descript is a timeline editor, so you delete text and the audio goes with it, and you come out with one finished piece. Vocal Slice goes the other way. You highlight a phrase and that span exports as its own file. Vocal Slice is also local rather than cloud based like Descript.
a great use case example!
the truly important thing from discussion with users is the actual workflow optimisation that the app provides, but i totally agree some of the copy on the website could use improvement and the comments on this show hn have made it clear that i'm not communicating things as well as i could
Really appreciate your thoughts on this, i totally agree - it is food for thought and as i monitor things it may make sense to tweak my approach. Bloating the tool would be counter productive for the sake of validating its cost, the idea long term is to improve, support and develop smart. Any financial model's goal in my eyes should be the means to allow people access, while justifying the product's existence.
the initial idea came from exporting lines and multiple takes for video game voice over delivery, but the functionality is there for doing longer clips too by making longer text selections. i'd love to get some feedback from this group if you'd like to discuss further?
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Vocal Slice uses whisper for the speech-to-text step, then performs its own logic on the transcription and audio, search, take matching, audio slicing, etc.
Thank you! speech to text models can be extremely accurate, but it really depends on the audio you feed it. the beauty here with Vocal Slice is that it doesn't need to be perfect because the user is given the tools to fine-tine the selection via the waveform controls and listening to playback. over time i would like to solve the purely automated workflow though, and make the manual step less necessary.
currently no, the app isn't open source - however the app itself announces and is quite transparent on how it functions. it takes your audio, transcribes it locally using speech to text, recording the time stamps of each word. when you select text to make slices, Vocal Slice makes use of the time stamps to align the text selection with the correct audio in and out points, matching the text you have selected.
the core part of this is understanding the needs of audio professionals and their workflow.
the notices are available within the app, i'll make a note that these should also be publicly listed on the repo
Thanks tene, from your comment i believe this functionality does exist, and i realise that i don't express it very clearly on my website. Essentially when you select text, it tells you how many 'matches' that text has. So if the same line is repeated, you can quickly seek between the matches to cut/AB multiple takes very quickly!
Yeah that's one great use case - you could search for text in a movies audio stream and add that to a video clip for example.
Thanks for your question - currently Vocal Slice only supports audio files, so you could download your youtube clip, extract the audio and run it through Vocal Slice. I have plans to natively support video in the future.
great question - I had an older iteration of this project which was a much smaller scoped utility (without the waveform functionality) that was a one time purchase on itch. The idea with this project is to add additional features over time (um and ah removal, the ability to actually remove parts of the transcription and output audio).
This is a cool idea but the website was not very performant. Having this as a desktop tool that can be tweaked/driven via claude could be a good approach
Thank you for the amazing support so far, a few of you have reached out via email to share use cases I hadn't thought of. This tool was originally conceived around long voice acting recording sessions which were a pain to sift through, but the privacy aspect has implications in legal and NDA scenarios too.
my childhood friend's grandparents were mars testers, their whole basement was full of mars bars!
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terranivium on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:32AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://vocalslice.com/
I make audio tools, and this one came out of the clip-pulling loop: scrub to find the right line, set the in point, set the out point, name the file, repeat.Vocal Slice transcribes your audio, then you can simply highlight the passage you want and the waveform jumps to exactly that span. Fine-tune with the handles, export a named clip.Windows and...
this looks like a really interesting replacement for slack. Is this ready to be picked up by a small start-up?