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Products that do what Squash Video does
Compress video for every destination. No codecs required.
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Image optimizer — no uploads, all in-browser
Jul 2026 · image-compression-hazel.vercel.app
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Hey HN, I've been working on this side project for the past month. It generates a step-by-step tutorial guide for YouTube videos that you can follow along without watching long videos. Best suited for tutorial videos but can work for other videos aswell. No BS. Just straight to the point. The guides are generated from pure transcript so you don't have to worry about it being AI. It's my first project as a total beginner. Something I had to do inorder to get out of tutorial hell. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or if you face any problems or bugs. I would try to fix them to the…
2024 · stepify.tech
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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
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Free video compressor. Files never leave your device.
Apr 2026 · compressyourvideo.com
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May 2026 · github.com
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Compress video in your browser — free, private, no upload
Jul 2026 · videocompress.dev
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Compress up to 10GB videos. No upload needed.
24d ago · vdocipher.com
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