Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
38 points by wassimgr
by sunnybeetroot
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Posts like these now feel the equivalent of “I didn’t want to order Indian takeaway so I hired a chef to make me butter chicken”
by vitally3643
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This is by far the least interesting/worst kind of project emerging lately.
"I didn't want to pay trivial money for a product, so I paid nontrivial money to have an AI make a version that's worse in every way that matters"
Who cares?
by saulpw
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Have you tried using this to actually edit anything? The local transcription is trash (slow, tons of repeated words, no speaker diarization, no option to upload a transcript or use ElevenLabs). I made a few edits to a sample episode I have, clicked on the upper left for a menu, it went to the front page and...I guess it lost the transcription and the edits with no way to get it back. Cool idea but it seems unusable at the moment, I'd say you have a lot more weekends of work to have something suitable for either Show HN or Product Hunt.
by dgellow
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I will never understand that thinking. You didn’t like that a service you need asks to be paid, so you paid an LLM to create a free competitor that you now advertise online. Do you not see the race to the bottom you’re contributing to? $24 doesn’t sound outrageous at all.
Such a weird way to frame your project
by Farrynet
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4 hours and 20 commits with Cursor is wild for getting something like this off the ground. How much of that time was spent fighting with prompt context vs actually structuring the browser media APIs?
by dcreater
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Looks like Im the only person who actually tried it? Very underbaked, bordering on useless - single word deletions dont even register. Multi word deletions have the first half/syllable of the first word heard. When you remove anything, there is an abrupt skip in the audio making the output weird at best and unusable for any real production use case, even for personal needs.
by swaminarayan
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How does this perform on longer videos, especially on lower-end machines? Is the transcription and video processing entirely local in the browser?
by ZiiS
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Whilst I love opensource; hitting with $24/mo saving when you invest 100x that much in your time is probably not the way to sell it.
by zeandcode
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Interesting, i have the same goal except it's for daily productivity tool github.com/slaveofcode/goodwebtools
by dcreater
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Can you enable usage of macos speechanalyzer?
by jadamczyk
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The name has a collision with a programming language related to ocaml - ReScript, which evolved from ReasonML
by KellyCriterion
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So you collect now 22,99 USD / month? :-D
by saulpw
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I hate Descript, not because of the cost but because of their dark patterns. (I learned recently that their CEO is the former CEO of Groupon, which explains a lot.) So I'd love something like this. But I need to edit an audio-only podcast. Is there a reason that it only accepts video files?
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