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Compress any video to an exact size (Discord or WeChat 20 MB, WhatsApp 16 MB) locally with FFmpeg, then prove the quality with VMAF/SSIM. No upload, no account.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 60 upvotes (top 54%) · 0 views
Niche: file and data compression tools · 100 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▲ +75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- agent-skill
- cli
- compress-video
- discord
- ffmpeg
- h264
- +14 more
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Could you build this?
Yes The tool wraps FFmpeg to compute bitrates and encode to a target size, then runs VMAF and SSIM measurements through FFmpeg's libvmaf filter. It is a CLI and web wrapper around established open-source tools.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 577 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #188 of 578 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 367 days after the earliest competitor.
- halfsize · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.87
- MakeVideoSmaller · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Fit — Video Compressor · ph · 2026-10-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- VidFold · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Discord Video Compressor by SquishyFile · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Unboundcove Video Tools · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- FitVideo · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- SlickDrop · ph · 2026-11-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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