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I remember when Rust was released, it was May 15, 2015; 9 years ago. I was there for the launch party in one of Mozilla's offices. Ever since (I am mainly a Java/Scala dev) I've tried to use it at work on my own initiative for writing some ad-hoc tool there and there, because management wouldn't hear of it for using Rust for something more essential. Landing a purely Rust job also proved too difficult. Even today when I open up job ads I can see 50 Scala jobs for every 1 Rust job. That's crazy, considering ever since it's release Rust was consistently voted "most loved" language on Stackoverflow annual survey and it's been climbing steadily on Tiobe's Language Index, about to enter top 10. Compare it to Scala, which is supposedly in decline and never even hit Tiobe's top 20. So I went digging around a bit and I found that apparently only something like 16% of people who use Rust use it for work. That essentially makes Rust a hobby language, does it not?

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Hi there HN!

I'm Matthias and I've been intro video streaming for quite a while now. About a month ago, during my annual holiday, I started building a simple API on top of local CLI scripts I built over the years (think ffmpeg, shaka-packager, HLS playlist manipulation, ...) so I could craft, test and reproduce bugs quicker.

One thing led to another and I eventually started exploring HLS interstitials, VMAP / VAST and dynamic ad insertion, MSE / EME (HLS.js in general), React (perf) as a player UI (although I have some experience with that from the past).

From the get go I built in public, including:

- Transcode jobs (ffmpeg over a bullmq queue, scales horizontally across multiple machines) with sane defaults.

- Package into HLS CMAF (thanks to shaka-packager, it's a great project).

- Use S3 (or any other cloud storage) as the source of truth.

- A facade around HLS.js that exposes a slightly simpler API that makes working with interstitials easier. Know that interstitials support with HLS.js is ongoing work (https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/issues/5730).

- A player UI (a React component). When I was toying around, I felt I missed the experience of interacting with a player (that's the only part in video streaming your end users interact with) thus I wrapped one together.

I like the idea of focusing solely on HLS (as opposed to DASH), especially since CMAF (oh and CTR / CBCS, if I get around supporting DRM someday) is a thing now.

I'm having a blast so far. Hope it provides some value to some of you!

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Some folks suggest to build your own personal brand as a single founder and then publize your product.

Some suggest to blog and publishing just around your Product

If there's some other way.

What is it to make those intial first few client sales and then have inbound generation ?

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I use ChatGPT regularly for a lot of different tasks. For example, coding, health Q&A, and summarizing docs. The different prompts stack up in the sidebar which becomes very difficult to manage. For example, I frequently have to refer back to a prompt that I wrote previously. But I usually give up looking for it because of the tedious scroll and search process. I was wondering if there is an easier way. How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?

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