FFmpeGo
FFmpeg in the cloud, billed by compute seconds
Details
- External ID
- 1257530
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- FFmpeGo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- API, Developer Tools, Video, Vercel Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Cheap, serverless FFmpeg encoding in the cloud. Pay only for successful encodes, metered by compute seconds — with hard monthly caps.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and video developer utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- cloud-hosted ffmpeg api for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping FFmpeg into a simple API or worker is easy, orchestrating elastic, isolated serverless compute with precise second-level metering and cost protection requires non-trivial infrastructure design.
What it would actually take: A production version requires an orchestration layer (e.g., AWS ECS/Fargate or self-hosted Nomad/Kubernetes on bare metal/spot instances) that provisions sandboxed microVMs (like Firecracker) to safely execute arbitrary user FFmpeg commands without security risks. It needs high-throughput persistent storage (S3/presigned URLs), robust job queueing (Kafka or RabbitMQ), and a sub-second metering pipeline tied to payment providers like Stripe. Specialized systems engineering and cloud infrastructure expertise are required to prevent runaway costs and handle large file I/O safely.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 43 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 44 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- FFmpeg WebCLI · hn · 2026-06-04 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Ez FFmpeg · hn · 2025-12-27 · 420 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- FFmpeg Commander · ph · 2026-09-30 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- FFmpeg Engineering Handbook · hn · 2025-12-01 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- FFmpeg-Plus · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- INSTANT Y2MP3 · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Tonvert · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- FFmpeg.wasm In-Browser Video Conversion · hn · 2025-11-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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