Show HN: Tikt.com – Remove the "OK" from TikTok URL's to Download as MP3 or MP4

86•nadermx•7h ago

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v5v3•7h ago

I can see it being useful as a web app.

I would suggest that you consider also add a mobile app so you have a rounded offering.

As on a regular basis I see a video in tiktok and want to share with people who refuse to join Tiktok, so use one of the many apps available to download and then send via WhatsApp.

bramhaag•7h ago

> I would suggest that you consider also add a mobile app so you have a rounded offering

Why does everything have to be a mobile app? The website works fine on mobile.

hamburglar•7h ago

Indeed. This compulsion is infuriating because it becomes normalized to require an app for things that very much should be a website.

At least once a month I have the experience where I either have to ask someone “am I forced to used your app to use your product/service” and they are baffled by the resistance. I just went through the exercise of net-sniffing my kids’ school bus status app because it is obviously just a wrapper around a web UI but nobody —- not the district nor the company that makes the app —- will actually admit this. Turns out there is a secret web page that offers the EXACT same functionality from a mobile browser. And the kicker: it works better.

jampekka•6h ago

Chrome PWAs can act as share targets.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

0points•5h ago

This guy likes to app.

yreg•4h ago

This wouldn't get past app review.

ksec•7h ago

I am more surprised by the name! How did you even manage to get the domain?

varun_ch•7h ago

I noticed the website looked quite similar to other websites for downloading videos, and then found the link to your personal website in the footer (which links to your other sites). How/why do you run so many similar websites? Surely the domain name costs alone are insane? And all linked back to your name? Legal liability? Is this profitable?

mouse_•7h ago

SEO

nadermx•7h ago

It's fun to do.

zffr•7h ago

Do you ever get threatening letters from the legal departments of these companies?

I once built a site like this for a popular social media site, and got an email from their lawyers claiming “Unlawful Use of COMPANY’s Trademarks / Service Marks”

dr_dshiv•6h ago

I love the internet

yreg•5h ago

Thank you for your service. Your tools are helpful.

pestaa•7h ago

A 4 letter dotcom registered in 2002. Curious what it was used for, how you got it for this project, and what it's worth on the market if you were to sell it. I feel a sense of awe like it's an old statue.

saddist0•7h ago

My guesss, but I wonder if it was bought for Tikt = Ticket?

thekevan•6h ago

"A 4 letter dotcom"

My guess is it was bought because of that.

abxyz•6h ago

They’re not that valuable. There are a lot of domains from the 90s that you can pick up for cheap. All 4L .coms sold out in the mid 2000s and on the open market they typically start around $350 for junk letters and go up from there. The OP probably paid under $1500 for this domain and I’d guess they bought it recently.

3L.com domains start at around $10k for the worst letters and go up from there.

2L.com start around $500k.

Add in numbers and the price falls substantially. You can pick up 2 letters + 1 number (e.g: b0w.com) for under $500.

nikanj•5h ago

Where should one head if they wanted to get a short domain like that?

fragmede•5h ago

the domain itself. eg josj.com (picked at random) is available.

nikanj•4h ago

Ah, those were monthly prices for leasing the domain, not prices to buy? At least josj.com is offering a monthly plan

charlangas•7h ago

How much was the domain?

xnx•7h ago

yt-dlp wrapper?

nadermx•6h ago

no.

FireInsight•6h ago

Why not?

nadermx•6h ago

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13235

phyzix5761•6h ago

What's preventing this website from injecting malware or doing other nefarious things before serving the content?

giancarlostoro•6h ago

Same thing preventing ad networks from being used the same way. Which is how I got malware on my system for the last time ever (I stopped letting Flash and Java run in browser).

cellularmitosis•3h ago

Is it possible for an mp3 or mp4 to contain malware?

phyzix5761•2h ago

You can disguise something to look like an mp3/mp4 and it includes 2 parts. The media file and code that executes in the background.

arcfour•1h ago

But you would need something that interprets the MP4 or MP3 as an executable, or an exploit in whatever decoder software is being used that allows you to hijack execution and run your own code instead of decoding and playing the media?

Or you are talking about an executable that simply plays a media file but is still actually an executable...which is an unsophisticated "attack" that I'm pretty sure was last used 20 years ago for being so obvious?

phs318u•33m ago

Yes.

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?q=%28description%3A%22mp3+%22+OR...

metalman•3h ago

I can see this bieng very important for some people who want to recover local copys of there own work, and also as a generalised way to jail break a good chunk of the internet for ordinary people,giving a sort of personal album of favorites that you dont have to search for, well you know what I mean, at least it's on your phone the idea of copyright bieng theoretical for any of the big outfits scraping up everything for there latest LLM, so it's all whatever , another thing is that these days you need to have blinders on when scrolling the ordinary net as anything, anything at all, might just pop up past the sensors, so saving the good stuff when you find it, and hoping it works as brain wash

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