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One of the things that we did at Kapwing (https://www.kapwing.com) was manually edit videos using our own platform and sharing these videos with bloggers to try to convince them to use Kapwing. We could create a relevant video from an article that they wrote, and then share them the link to the project so that they could edit it directly with our tool. Another random thing we did was try to make chalk posters on the streets of SF. We chalked our logo out in front of the 4th and King Caltrain station so that tech people would see it when coming out of the station. Unfortunately, that only worked for a day though, because the SF crews are very good at powerwashing the sidewalks.

Technically that's not kapwing.com. Search with bing and the first result is https://www.kapwing.com

This looks pretty cool! I've been using Kapwing for similar purposes (https://www.kapwing.com/) and this reminds me of Kapwing in its earlier days. Definitely a bit basic without all the effects and overlays, but looks like a nice MVP. As someone who used to run my own video sharing site in the 2000s, it's super cool seeing how videos can just render so quickly in my browser and be moved around.

Probably not exactly what you mean, but the closest I can think of would be https://www.kapwing.com/

Also likely not a site that deals with meme makers: http://kapwing.com

same for me in chrome... https://www.kapwing.com › tools

Yeah. "Hate": https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-does-the-public-hate-the-tech-industr… Re the linked piece, I'm concerned about people saying "they hate us" when they really mean "they disagree with us" or "they seem skeptical of what we say." It can easily become click bait. The language changes, sure ... but equating disagreement with the emotion of hatred? Maybe that language change is a bad idea? Just spitballing here.

Sadly, this is the reality. > 59% of videos served to a new TikTok account’s For You page were AI slop 97% of videos under the #cartoonkids hashtag were AI slop 57.4% of TikToks in the Kids category were AI slop Source: https://www.kapwing.com/resources/the-tiktok-ai-slop-report

Not from YouTube but there are some free services. "How to Translate YouTube Videos for Free" - https://www.kapwing.com/resources/how-to-translate-youtube-videos-for-…

I hate to break it to you, but if you think TikTok has "grass roots content creators" vs Facebook having influencers, I have a bridge, as well as a TikTok content house to sell you. https://www.kapwing.com/resources/tiktok-houses-list/

> currently, even if you search for kapwing on Google, kapwing.com does not show up in the results This is false. My first result in Firefox is https://www.kapwing.com/tools

[This is Julia, the OC] We've got you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUvcWjFkFs Also check out our blog post about the name :) https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-we-chose-an-onomatopoeia/

Thank you. That said, I had a chance to look around while waiting for some experiments such as https://www.kapwing.com/ai-video-generator/611efcb7027b6901059fffd4 ... Neat service you have. Will try at some point.

I don't know why you're so resistant to the idea that harassment is commonplace for certain groups of people. Look at the stark difference when this founder replaced her picture with her male cofounder's on their support chat, for example [1]. Or again, just ask women or other marginalized people in your life what their experience is like online. Tons of ordinary non-famous people I know have stories just like these. [1] https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-i-dont-use-my-real-photo/

In browser, I like to use the tools on kapwing to do this kind of thing, but this tool seems more structured around these specific use cases. Kapwing tools are more general purpose photo/gif/video tools. The equivalent tool on kapwing: https://www.kapwing.com/meme-maker List of all tools: https://www.kapwing.com/tools

Good catch, uberswe. Was an older video and I flubbed the selection process - here it is working correctly: https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5dbc3e33ee4d0f00136d01e6

I'm going to double down on this one. I poked around their site and read the blog post on their flyer campaign : https://www.kapwing.com/blog/postering-san-francisco/ And it ends with this quote : "By the end of our 8-hour workday, we had: - Put up 352 posters - Spent $96.16 ($31.08 for tape + $65.08 for printing) - Taken 25,497 steps - Walked 11.2 miles - Used over 400 ft of tape" Nowhere in there does it say anything about the cost of paying the people to do that work. They're very clearly and plainly stating that they do not put any value on the time of their employees.

In case a future reader stumbles across this thread.. today I read someone else's description of exactly this. From https://www.kapwing.com/blog/unexpected-challenges-of-making-money/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16542603): > 8. Customers are bad at telling you how much they would pay: Before we added the paywall, we asked a sample of users if they’d be willing to pay a fee to remove a watermark. The majority said they wouldn’t be. But when we actually added the paywall, several people who said they wouldn’t pay did. After we launched, some people have told us our product is cheap and plenty have said it’s too expensive. Takeaway: The easiest way to tell if people will pay is to make them an offer and see if they cash in.

The author gives three examples of queries that they liked: surreal ideas amidst a maelstrom of color in the style of art nouveau the cat is sleeping under the promethean cloud astronaut floating in pink outerspace and three queries that are "random, trolling-type inputs": rabbit eating human mike tyson as a clown on a building moms spaghetti > These random inputs don't reflect an art-making intent Yes they do. All six are pretty equally abstract, the author just doesn't like that the latter three reference pop culture. > What's further surprising about this is that VQGAN+CLIP was never designed to generate truly explicit content, which begs the question of the intent of these users. Is is that the internet just craves NSFW content so much that they will type it anywhere? It's the scientific method. It would be pretty neat if VQGAN+CLIP managed to spit out something that looked like porn. It can't, apparently, but you may as well try. Obviously, the author can use their GPUs for whatever they want and they can blog about whatever they want, and if the internet didn't use the tool in a way they would have liked, it's fair for them to be disappointed. The upshot is that the post gives off "old man yells at cloud"[1] energy. [1] https://www.kapwing.com/ai-video-generator/61237ae901d7a3003db5ab93