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Personal blog · newbeelearn.com/blog · on HN as pdycstartupsprogramming
Welcome to my weblog on Newbeelearn is a personal blog at newbeelearn.com about startups and programming. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A site of free online tools, including a video editor that outputs ffmpeg commands and a CSV tool. HN commenters mention it as a comparison for file-conversion and related utilities.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is blog where i mostly write about indiehacking
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands2 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-11-21
- Show HN: My Sidetracked Project – A Free CSV Online Viewer with Charts2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-08-21
- Challenges faced displaying large CSV file with million+ rows in CSV Viewer2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-09
- What happens when your article gets on second page of HN some traffic insights2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-21
- Does productivity increases with AI or it just feels like it?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-24
- How to commit part of file in Git2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-14
What Hacker News says?
The great ffmpeg!, Even though you can generate commands using llm its still tedious to adjust things visually on cli so I ended up creating my own tool to generate ffmpeg commands. https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/
Comment linking /tools/videoeditor/
on “FFmpeg by Example”Submitted Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands as a story · 147 points
HN discussionI ended up creating my own tool to generate ffmpeg commands https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/
Comment linking /tools/videoeditor/
on “FFmpeg by Example”Submitted How to commit part of file in Git as a story · 70 points
HN discussionhttps://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline/ it's a free CSV Viewer with charts that supports viewing data in both table and chart formats. It includes features like sorting, searching, filtering, and pagination in table view. Recently did show hn which didn't go anywhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311629
Comment linking /tools/csvonline/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?”Submitted How ChatGPT made me lazy as a story · 35 points
HN discussionKinda remind me of this: https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/ and this one also outputs ffmpeg command as well.
Comment linking /tools/videoeditor/
on “Open source and self hostable/private file converter”Submitted Show HN: My Sidetracked Project – A Free CSV Online Viewer with Charts as a story · 8 points
HN discussionyou can also try this tool for csv https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline/
Comment linking /tools/csvonline/
on “LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab”Submitted What happens when your article gets on second page of HN some traffic insights as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhere is another user-friendly gui if you want and it generates ffmpeg command https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/
Comment linking /tools/videoeditor/
on “Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app”Submitted Challenges faced displaying large CSV file with million+ rows in CSV Viewer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou have a typo, https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline/
Comment linking /tools/csvonline/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)”Submitted How to count rows read(scan) in SQLite as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline free csv viewer with charts and tables with usual sorting/searching/filtering etc. I am planning to use the core of this product to create kind of arbitrary dashboard for csv but i am not sure if there is any need for this kind of product.
Comment linking /tools/csvonline
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)”Submitted Comparison of Astro Themes for SaaS as a story · 4 points
HN discussioncsv viewer with charts https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline
Comment linking /tools/csvonline
on “Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?”Submitted How to commit part of file in Git with Emacs and magit as a story · 4 points
HN discussionthis is great! let me plug my tool as well, in case you want to edit videos visually you can also use this tool https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/ it generates ffmpeg commands.
Comment linking /tools/videoeditor/
on “Show HN: Typed-FFmpeg 3.0–Typed Interface to FFmpeg and Visual Filter Editor”Submitted How to use Org Mode in Hugo as a story · 4 points
HN discussioninteresting, i created a video editor to generate ffmpeg commands because it was difficult to adjust ffmpeg commands on commandline https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/ . This lets you tweak ffmpeg commands visually.
Comment linking /tools/videoeditor/
on “Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser”Submitted Does productivity increases with AI or it just feels like it? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionshameless plug, if you want to view csv with charts you can also give my free viewer a try https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline
Comment linking /tools/csvonline
on “MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program”Submitted Introduction to tanstack query and organizing code with queryoptions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthanks for the feedback. Sure, will add some cool themes to it similar to my other free product https://newbeelearn.com/tools/csvonline/
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on “Show HN: Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands”Submitted How to add search to a website using flexsearch as a story · 3 points
HN discussioninteresting will probably integrate as sprite mode in my ffmpeg video editor https://newbeelearn.com/tools/videoeditor/
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on “Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg”Submitted What happens when you get on second page of HN 2024 as a story · 3 points
HN discussioncrashed with big file https://www.papaparse.com/resources/files/big.csv i evaluated sqlite for my tool and wrote about it here https://newbeelearn.com/blog/million-rows-csv-debug-story/ BTW i checked your sqlite.wasm to be quite compact, just 340kb are you doing custom compilation.
Comment linking /blog/million-rows-csv-debug-story/
on “Show HN: Private, in-browser, CSV-SQL query runner using SQLite-WASM”Submitted Project Planning Template for Indiehackers as a story · 3 points
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