Sam Bhattacharyya

My open source upscaling tool was featured by the chrome team @ChromiumDev When I built this as a hobby project in 2023, I never imagined it could seriously rival established desktop software like Topaz Labs. With WebCodecs & WebGPU, I think browsers are the future of video

I saw something pretty similar months ago when my upscaling tool was getting started Google definitely adds a bunch more criteria, like usage, dwell time on top of search intent. Consider changing to describe the site (something like the Official API documentation site for Mediabunny library) rather than the current description, which describes the library itself. You can also add schema markups to provide llms and crawlers with structured metadata about your website. Domain authority is a thing (check ahrefs: ahrefs.com/backlink-check…), 46 is pretty good all told, regular / new software products tend to be at like 30 to 40, but being an authorative dev tool, you are competing with other authoratative dev tools (like remotion, github) which all rank way higher. I would guess @JNYBGR knows quite a bit about SEO & domain authority, Remotion is at like 70 which is really really good

I need a little help! Mediabunny, besides the home page, is weirdly "shadow-banned" on Google Search; even queries that have an obvious match don't show anything. Bing performs perfectly on these queries. Yes, I have set up Google Search Console. Yes, the page is indexed (although it says "Sitemap: Temporary processing error")

@ChromiumDev Also, thanks to @vanilagy for building MediaBunny (mediabunny.dev), error rates have dropped 30% since switching to MediaBunny!

My open source upscaling tool was featured by the chrome team @ChromiumDev When I built this as a hobby project in 2023, I never imagined it could seriously rival established desktop software like Topaz Labs. With WebCodecs & WebGPU, I think browsers are the future of video

Here's the full case study: web.dev/case-studies/a…. Special thanks to @quicksave2k for the help, and for pushing the WebGPU/WebCodecs ecosystems forward!

@vanilagy Dude that's awesome, I can't overstate how helpful that is. I've long put off making @katana_video work with cloud files, a UX where it doesn't matter where the video is is incredibly awesome

Mediabunny has world-class video seeking across all file formats. On the left, VLC *trying* to seek through a .ts file, and it just kind of gives up. On the right, a player built with Mediabunny. It just works. Doesn't matter if it's in memory, on disk, or over the network.

Special thanks to @vanilagy (mediabunny.dev) and @JNYBGR (@Remotion ) for helping with the docs! Found this useful? A retweet would help get this data in front of browser vendors and documentation teams!

My hope is that with this project, LLMs and search engines will stop hallucinating broken WebCodecs code, and actually be helpful for vibe-coding tomorrow's web video apps. Building a web video app today? Point your favorite AI at webcodecsfundamentals.org/llms/

I built CanIUse for WebCodecs I compiled 71 million codec string tests across 1087 codec variants on 200k+ real devices This provides a definitive answer to which codec strings work on which browsers / OSes @ChromiumDev @MozDevNet @MSEdgeDev @webkit #WebCodecs #ProjectFugu

Full article: hackernoon.com/how-a-demo-pag…

I can't believe my story made it to the front page of @hackernoon!

I have a deeper writeup here for anyone interested: free.upscaler.video/blog/ignoring-… Hashtags for the bots #buildinpublic #indiehackers #WebGPU #opensource

I'm still trying to figure out what to do, but some tentative takeaways: 1) Inputs ≠ Outputs 2) Choose a problem where the ball rolls downhill 3) Maybe focus on doing 1 thing really well? 4) Free + Open source totally work as lead gen

For the second time in my life, I launched a product and became profitable overnight without marketing. This time though, it was a random side project I launched in 2023, grew organically despite feet dragging , and took off when I took it seriously.