We are a full-stack product team (product manager/designer, two full-stack devs) with 9+ years of experience in bootstrapping 5 products as well as working as a team for startups. After being acquired by VEED.io we've been part of the company for the past two years building an AI-powered video editor.
We are experienced with validating, building, and growing products from scratch and scaling them.
We are a full-stack product team (product manager/designer, two full-stack devs) with 9+ years of experience in bootstrapping 5 products as well as working as a team for startups. After being acquired by VEED.io we've been part of the company for the past two years building an AI-powered video editor.
We've really put in the work tweaking the prompts to save you the hassle. It's quick, free, and gets straight to the point.
Right now, it's a basic MVP just to show that the idea works and to start chatting with some initial users. We've got plenty of ideas for making it better and adding new stuff, but we really want to hear from users first before diving into our own idea pool.
> Right now, it's a basic MVP just to show that the idea works and to start chatting with some initial users.
Its not the first service of this type; Lots of firm offer AI (LLM-specifically)-based services assisting lawyers with contract review and other similar tasks, and Donotpay.com offered similar services to the public, billing its offering as a "Robot Lawyer", before narrowing its offerings under a storm of dubious media attention, government investigations (some involving potential criminal charges), and the beginnings of private litigation relating to unauthorized practice of law.
A year and a half after starting working on Welder we managed to pivot and reshape our local recording solution for recording HQ video remotely into a robust tool to take care of content production for small businesses like us.
And that's why we started Welder in the first place. To help us produce more video content. And it does! Now we live stream every Friday and turn it into 4-6 pieces of video for Youtube, LI & TikTok!
At the end of August this year, we had a clear idea how the solution to ACTUALLY help us should look like. A tool setup your stream easily and make it look great, connect to platforms, start streaming, has the stream recorded, and then transcripted so we can easily select pieces of text and repurpose the recording into multiple pieces of content.
We gave ourselves an ambitious deadline. 1 month for the LIVE studio part (streaming, recording, being able to change bg, overlay etc) and 1 month for the text-based editor to cut, repurpose, and export recorded streams.
Finally, it took us 3 and a half months and I am so pumped to share it with you today!
I am a product designer building products for more than 7 years now with my team. I love being in the early stages of the startup. Working closely with founders, listening to their ideas, being deep in the problem space, and talking to users. Mixing all of this to bring functional yet beautiful designs that are not going to break developers’ necks.
In the past 7 years, I built and designed multiple products used by tens of thousands of users.
I am open to fixed term contract (up to 3 months) to help you brainstorm, validate and design the product you envisioned.
I am a product designer building products for more than 7 years now with my team. I love being in the early stages of the startup. Working closely with founders, listening to their ideas, being deep in the problem space, and talking to users. Mixing all of this to bring functional yet beautiful designs that are not going to break developers’ necks.
In the past 7 years, I built and designed multiple products used by tens of thousands of users.
I am open to fixed term contract (up to 3 months) to help you brainstorm, validate and design the product you envisioned.
I build products for more than 7 years now with my tiny team. We bootstrap our own products and help others deliver theirs.
I am the product manager and product designer of the team. I do all the designs needed to have a product - from product ideation, wireframing to beautifully crafted pixels, landing pages, logos, branding, social media presence design, and more.
I am not a typical UI or UX designer. For me, design is the glue of the product. It reflects and combines business needs, the problem and the target audience, the technical team, time frame and so much more to deliver a working and beautiful experience to users.
I am available for a short-term contract (2-3 months). Let me know if you are interested.
Design is the “cheapest” asset your product can have to build trust and empathy.
Happy to hear that Welder seems meaningful for you. You should definitely give it a try.
Btw thanks for letting me know what convinced you, we are actually in the process of updating the LP and this is valuable feedback.
So when covid thing happened we started on a few side projects as we though it's a great opportunity to build something that will help people in current situation.
We created MVP of app for therapists to do remote sessions, system for creative people to share their thoughts, Slack bot for devs to streamline their workflow and Welder.
Welder took of the most in our validation phase.
We decide to jump full time into it straight away as the demand was big. Few months in we already had paying customers, but the growth was not as fast as we needed.
We started thinking about VC funding, but finally it didn't feel right, we loved the product, but not as much. We didn't feel like it's the next unicorn. We would be lying to the VCs and we didn't want to.
So after 8 months we decided to put it back on side track as we had two options
1) VC capital and boost the generalistic tool as hell > Nope
2) Finding a niche, stick with it, understand it and deliver solution that is different enough from other generalistic competitors who raised (we didn't love it enough and we didn't feel big enough differentiator is there).
Yep, you are totally right. We did lean to building a lot in the past, and I believe we still do even though we try to do our best not to.
That's why I am doing this Ask HN and it's extremely valuable.
I also want to figure out who to talk with next so I can understand their problems. I am thinking talking to companies and startups in general about their problems and challenges might be beneficial too. Might start podcast series about that.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: python, django, react, node, gcp, aws, docker
email: deptaj [at] gmail [dot] com
linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johancutych/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/predrag-ristic-06b1b97b/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-vybiral/
We are a full-stack product team (product manager/designer, two full-stack devs) with 9+ years of experience in bootstrapping 5 products as well as working as a team for startups. After being acquired by VEED.io we've been part of the company for the past two years building an AI-powered video editor.
We are experienced with validating, building, and growing products from scratch and scaling them.
Cheers!