Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to SlashedCloud
The cheapest video encoding in the world
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SlashedCloud launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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While building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, I was frustrated by my vector database consuming 8GB RAM just to search my own PDFs. After incurring $150 in cloud costs, I had an unconventional idea: what if I encoded my documents into video frames? The concept sounded absurd—storing text in video? But modern video codecs have been optimized for compression over decades. So, I converted text into QR codes, then encoded those as video frames, letting H.264/H.265 handle the compression. The results were surprising. 10,000 PDFs compressed down to a 1.4GB video file. Search…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Apr 2026 · tinycloud.cloudglue.dev · its alternatives →
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built an experiment that uses an overfitted transformer and arithmetic coding to compress individual files. Instead of training the model to generalize, I train a 900KB transformer to memorize a single file and predict the next byte. Those predictions are fed into an arithmetic coder to produce the compressed output. On a 100MB NYC taxi CSV, it compresses to about 7MB (~0.5 bits/byte). On a 100MB slice of enwik9, it compresses to about 21MB (~1.68 bits/byte). It's pretty slow right now (roughly 20–30 minutes of training and 45 minutes each for compression and decompression on my…
Jun 2026 · its alternatives →
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Cut and trim videos online instantly, simple and free!
2018 · its alternatives →
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Split Ninja▲82Cut, extract, mute, and split videos locally
Jun 2026 · sn.ricalab.space · its alternatives →
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Scan your library, find the biggest videos and shrink them
2025 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I created HEVCut, an iOS app that helps save iCloud storage by compressing videos into HEVC format with optimized metadata. It’s a straightforward solution for reducing video file sizes significantly (up to 50% or more), which speeds up load times and keeps quality high. I built it after struggling to manage my iCloud storage, especially with videos, and wanted something that didn’t rely on complex settings or third-party cloud services. How It Works: HEVCut performs local re-encoding to HEVC (H.265) while optimizing metadata. By default, it reduces resolution to Full HD for even…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Stream fewer bits while improving visual quality
2023 · its alternatives →
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