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Comment on Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

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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

The title is largely for attention-grabbing + relating the project to a product people know already; obviously this is not a replacement, the goal is to experiment with local/offline models and test the limits of the browser and showcase some of the new technologies like SharedArrayBuffer. I work at the limit of javascript performance and making projects like these is how I teach myself new browser APIs.

If it’s something you’ve done yourself, and not Claude generated, then kudos, that’s definitely the good way to learn

It's not $24 - it's $24 / month.

And last time I used it, when I went to export in high resolution (don't recall if it was 1080 or 4k) - it refused to export in the resolution that I uploaded unless I paid for an upgrade.

I can't stand monthly rent forever, yet a time many moons ago, descript's method was novel enough to give it a whirl.

It's no longer novel, just like many other projects.

It's was always a case to describe your idea in context already known to users. Examples Uber for X, or eBay for Y. I think it's a great way to learn to build alternatives for payed services. Look at cal.com

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