We're building a new LLM-supercharged video product, backed by General Catalyst (Stripe, Snap, AirBnb) and angels from Roblox, Meta, and Pika Labs.
Just hit in inflection point with growth and need help ASAP. You'd be FTE #1.
We’re all experienced developers, ex-Cambridge, ex-Uber etc. and we're looking for ambitious, experienced engineers who want to own products, have a founder mindset with strong equity, invent some cool shit that doesn't exist, and build the technical foundations of a $1bn+ company.
Yarn (YC W24) | https://www.yarn.so | Founding Engineers | NYC In-Person | Full Time
Yarn is Figma for video.
We're taking a novel approach in the video space. We think making videos is reasoning-heavy, so we're focusing on using LLMs and interfaces to orchestrate the best domain-specific models. We want to help people create high-end output, not programmatic AI slop.
We believe in small, in-person, talent-dense teams.
We're looking for smart generalists that enjoy picking up new challenges and learning new tech.
I'm a founder at Yarn (YC W24) – we're building in this space and launching on HN soonish.
We often see teams combining ScreenStudio with products like iMovie, AfterEffects, or Veed. Other products in the space to check out are Tella.tv, Kite, or Descript.
For more advanced motion graphics, you'll often need a freelancer or agency.
Feel free to drop me a message (email in bio) to talk through options!
I’m a dev lead who is a rusted on Linux user, I’ve always hated that ScreenStudio is Mac only since it’s a great product. Any plans for Linux support? I would love the ability to dem stuff and have it actually look pretty.
The problem is that a lot of the details requires macOS accessibility permissions (identifying active window, measuring cursor movements), so there's non-trivial platform specific code.
For product demos specifically, best bet might be a Chrome-extension-based product like Arcade!
ScreenStudio is really good, I use it for all of my capture. Main feature I find missing is ability to reorder or combine multiple recordings into one clip, or add audio from within the app.
Yep although to be precise it's a pay-for-a-year-of-updates model, and the underlying macOS APIs in this space change significantly between minor and major macOS releases, so ymmv in terms of "pay once forever". (For upcoming features like shareable links, they'll presumably move to a part-subscription pricing model.)
A lot of fragmented promise for video editing amongst these different apps. Hopefully someone will make a comparison chart for these. Good luck on your launch!
Unfortunately this is one of the places where Linux really doesn't have any good options. While there are definitely raw capture options for Linux, there isn't anything as nice as Screen Studio or Screen Flow or Camtasia for quick, short videos with basic editing.
I work for https://www.canvid.com, and we recently released a beta version of our product, which is similar to Screen Studio but designed for Windows. If we see enough interest, we may even release a Linux version around Q3.
There's no way this is even possible, let alone true.
This might be a hot take but if you're under the age of 25, it's likely that you know very few things total. And the things you do know, you're just not going to have a master level of understanding of in your 20s yet nor the drive to focus on it the way it needs, especially with other social pressures at play. What is extremely high in your 20s is your ambition - your loftiness of ideas and goals and your expectations of yourself - these can land you exceptional jobs, opportunities, and get you to a great starting point, but that's not the same as intelligence and ability.
For manual labor work, there's a definite peak - college age and the years just after. But for knowledge work, math, programming, business, politics, etc. being older is almost always an asset - you get better at things, you get smarter, your networks grow, you become an adult among the children and are far more aware of timing and can predict and speak on things with more accuracy. You simply know more.
Besides that, I don't think raw intelligence is selection criteria for a good founder anyway. It has a lot more to do with your particular situation - how well you're situated to pull it off, which can mean many things. In terms of personal qualities it probably has more to do with determination and obsession (work ethic) than intelligence, especially these days where information is so cheap and available.
Ah sorry for clarity I didn't mean "currently attend", and agree "smartest" here was probably excessively casual.
I think there's different benefits at different ages, and agree on importance of determination and obsession. A good market is the only thing that might be more useful.
There is a lot of variance in how words are used, so I'm not going to say you're wrong here.
However, my usage of the following words deviate from yours:
* intelligence - raw intellect, having absolutely nothing to do with anything ever learned
* smarts - synonym for raw intellect, but often more on the 'crafty' side of raw intellect
* ability - short for 'capabilities', and is a merge of 'intelligence' and 'learned information'. Information is useless without intellect, and intellect is vastly reduced in capability without learned information. Ability is a metric for these two conjoined. 'Skilled' fits here too.
So from where I sit, you never get "smarter" as you age. You do however grow your abilities, you may become "wise", and skilled.
By the way, agree 100% with the context of what you're saying. And just passing on term usage from another geolocation.
That's fine, but then measuring 'raw intellect' is like measuring 'raw strength' when you're selecting members of a soccer team. It will help, no doubt, but it's one of many factors.
But e.g. there was a great team in our batch (W24) with very young kids who flew to SF for in-person events. Some people were unable to come to the US (visa issues) that took part remotely.
No requirement to intend to stay in the US – many foreign teams heading back, but many more haven chosen to stay in SF on O1 and other visas (YC helps with this).
I think YC admissions see the intention to be based in SF as a net positive, because SF is in most situations the very best place to start a startup (regardless of YC).
Our pipeline is Three.js, ffmpeg, Electron, Swift, React.
We’re looking for a graphics programmer and webGL pro to help us solve hard problems in our export pipeline, explore post-processing, and help across the webGL stack.
If you’re interested, get in touch at jasper@yarn.so
We're building a new LLM-supercharged video product, backed by General Catalyst (Stripe, Snap, AirBnb) and angels from Roblox, Meta, and Pika Labs.
Just hit in inflection point with growth and need help ASAP. You'd be FTE #1.
We’re all experienced developers, ex-Cambridge, ex-Uber etc. and we're looking for ambitious, experienced engineers who want to own products, have a founder mindset with strong equity, invent some cool shit that doesn't exist, and build the technical foundations of a $1bn+ company.
Email jasper [at] yarn [dot] so or apply here https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yarn-2/jobs/zEjJAYN-fo...