Very few casual desktop CapCut users are going to get past the prerequisits of instal "Bun, Docker and Docker Compose, and Node.js"
Blender, Shotcut, OpenShot, or Kdenlive are probably the better open source video editor options right now.
They just need to pack it as an single AppImage or Electron app. Bun and Docker are made for developers, not users.
Even something as basic as opening a video file is a huge challenge. I can't just open a video file. Instead, I need to "create a new project", which requires that I specify the exact resolution and FPS of the video file beforehand (why!?). After I use a completely separate tool to extract these attributes from the video that I'm editing, I have a blank canvas onto which I can drag the actual video.
The UI is somewhat clumsy but I think it is pretty good that we have an open source video editor.
So many GitHub stars and not a single screenshot of it anywhere, not on GitHub, not on Google, not on the official webpage that just have a wait-list and their twitter Bash capcut with screenshots of capcut but none of opencutapp.
And I mean I wish something like that to succeed, but it doesn't look like that they have much to show for at the moment.
Follower count and activity looks about right. There's some screenshots there. I assume the star count is due to some amount of marketing.
I know buying stars and followers is pretty straight forward.
https://www.star-history.com/#OpenCut-app/OpenCut&Date
Like when you have nothing to show off, after the first day, already gaining thousands of stars per day. And the last 5 days, with 2 or more thousands per day consistently, linearly...
And let's say that we believe in the stars, just look at the number of forks, why so many persons would fork the project so fast, to still do nothing, no contribution or personal commits. Accounts of new users, or almost empty, or shaddy like the following one: https://github.com/1234567891o12?tab=repositories
https://github.com/kietsyu?tab=overview&from=2025-02-01&to=2...
https://github.com/jakele86?tab=overview&from=2025-03-01&to=...
https://github.com/Lukriss98?tab=overview&from=2024-06-01&to...
Or the following one that is quite fun:
In this one, the only other project is a AI generated SEO optimized recipe blog with all the boilerplate still there.
It’s the back door way to collect money from content creators and businesses. Most of the people I know who were using CapCut either had their employers pay for it or had some way to tax deduct it as part of their creator activities.
Paying $20/month on top of an actual business is usually trivial, especially if it saves someone time or improves quality of the content.
The TikTok slop posts aren’t spending any time perfecting their edits. They’re mass producing content as rapidly as they can from phone camera to TikTok
I know this edgy style appeals to some people, but it’s a quick way to alienate most users. Nothing screams “this project is not for you” like copy that feels like it was targeted at impressing someone’s friends in an edgy Discord, not actual potential users.
Although I don’t think this project is trying to appeal to a general audience with the level of technical expertise required to even begin to use it.
By dropping any pretense of being polite or approachable, you basically encourage people to shut the f*ck up and either be happy with what they got or else submit a PR.
A good deal of the site is just them complaining they don't get access to free stuff from CapCut anymore.
It's not "take it or leave it", it's "waah how dare you not give it to me."
It selects for people who are drawn to harsh language and think calling people “motherfucker” is both normal and cool.
Guess how those people are going to communicate right back to you when they want something?
For example: there's very reasonable arguments that COCs are needed to protect against actual material harm/bullying/abuse targeting individual contributors on projects but this copy specifically does none of that.
In that context, it's just a matter of taste - there's no real reason to police tone that isn't harmful (to anything other than a bottom line).
Emotions going way overboard are usually not good for engineering, or for open-source project governance. Aggressive negative emotions, doubly so.
I’m not asking for corporate speak. I’m suggesting simple communication that explains the information without insulting the reader and calling them a “motherfucker” every other sentence would be less alienating
> In that context, it's just a matter of taste - there's no real reason to police tone that isn't harmful (to anything other than a bottom line)
I’m not here to police anything or anyone. They’re free to write as they please. I’m just pointing out that writing this way is a big red flag to a lot of people this project’s target audience is the edgelord crowd. If that’s what they’re aiming for then there’s nothing wrong with that, but I don’t think they realize how making strong appeals to that narrow target audience is a fast track to pigeon holing your project as an edgelord thing. Just taking one look at the low brow insults and trash talking in the GitHub issues confirms it.
Thats a weird bit of code. If the function changes execute it ?
Ref: https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/sr...
They want to make sure you call out dependencies. It annoys me alot when you know they won't change. And if they do (some reference change on render)... well that's just a footgun of React and I argue this doesnt help.
Makes sense. A few years back, a stale closure bug consumed two full working days and one full night for me.
implying that javascript and rust in the same tier is mistake
I'd probably rather build some things (most things) in JS than Rust. It has GC and let's me focus more on the business problem. But id even more prefer Go Java or C#. But I'm a microservice monkey so ymmv.
Also if you love the F word read this file: https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/blob/main/apps/web/sr...
I don't know if this style of... discussion is something the Cluely team made popular recently, or if it took off sooner, but I really hope it doesn't catch on further.
If anyone is looking for tips on what to NOT do, it's a gold mine.
Nothing there seems to reflect poorly on the project as far as I can tell?
https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut/commits?author=Zaid-m...
It already has.
It is the late teens/young twenties online communication style. Generally pretty aggressive, but easy to ignore because they are usually not really saying anything of substance. They are "ragebaiting" you.
Gotta love seeing a code of conduct:
> We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone
And down in Enforcement (emphasis mine):
> Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at [INSERT CONTACT METHOD]. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.
What’s the point of this dance when you can’t bother to fill out the contact.
Honestly the 'Project Structure' section which is just a directory listing, feels like it was generated by an LLM.
That's not how it works, but I agree it's weird there is no screenshot.
What are the pros and cons of this one?
0. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multim...
rtaylorgarlock•8h ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44355853
edit: I am genuinely curious about spam prevention on HN. What systems we got working against fraudulent actors?
TheObviousOne•8h ago
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echelon•8h ago
A post getting two submissions twice does not make this a re-post. Nobody on earth saw the previous submissions.
It's permissible for folks to submit posts a few times until they actually get noticed or dang steps in to tell them to stop. The author is doing things exactly as the rules permit.
If you've learned from your wife's social media career, you know that you often have to keep trying in order to pick up traction. The algorithm requires signal.
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nateb2022•8h ago
I am not a fraudulent actor (not sure what basis there is for that accusation) and generally post things I come across. OpenCut was in my GitHub feed today, seemed like it could be useful to others, ergo I shared it.
danjl•8h ago