Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

wwassimgr about 8 hours ago 3 commentsRead Article on github.com

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Descript costs $24/mo, so I built this over a single weekend with Fable!

Introducing Rescript: edit videos by simply editing the transcript text. Drop in a video and it is transcribed locally with per-word timestamps and speaker labels. Delete words in the transcript and the corresponding clip is cut from the video.

Runs fully in the browser: Local, free, offline and open source.

→ Github https://github.com/wassgha/rescript

→ App https://wassgha.github.io/rescript

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ZiiS•18 minutes ago

Whilst I love opensource; hitting with $24/mo saving when you invest 100x that much in your time is probably not the way to sell it.

ray_v•12 minutes ago

Where it pays off is not when you reach parity with the built product compared to the vendored product - it's when you can continue to extend or customize the capabilities when the original vendor can not or will not support the features you can now build

jadamczyk•28 minutes ago

The name has a collision with a programming language related to ocaml - ReScript, which evolved from ReasonML