“My goal is to grow VODForge into a widely adopted free tool for people who do not want to deal with sketchy websites, CLI mess, or pay for things that you could ultimately do for free given time and effort.”
coopernusbaum, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
Downloads YouTube at the quality the source actually has. Charging extra for 4K was always the punchline.
CapCut lets you edit the whole video, then wants a subscription at the Export button. Concat exports for free and never learned the word watermark.
“I was really excited to complete and upload my first video ever, and everything seemed perfect until I clicked Export and it showed a popup saying that I had to pay a monthly subscription fee to use the most trivial features like voice changers.”
GEOlayers 3 charges $329.99 to put a map in After Effects. LazyMapLayers does the globe-to-street flight for nothing, forever, no key.
“Paid map plugins for After Effects work, but they are expensive, depend on paid data partners, and still show their seams: blurry zoom steps, labels that pop, moves that stop halfway.”
Loom wants $24 a seat to cut your ums. Lumen cuts them on Linux and hands you the link for free.
“And the parts that make Loom videos nice to watch cost extra.”
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