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119 points willmoss | 6 comments | 21 Oct 24 09:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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candiddevmike ◴[21 Oct 24 12:22 UTC] No.41903382[source]▶
The README makes it sound like this uses TikTok, or at least that's how I read it. I think it's just an app that has a TikTok-like UX. You may want to reword things to highlight who would use this and why you built it.
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justusthane ◴[21 Oct 24 12:39 UTC] No.41903536[source]▶
Agreed. It's weird, and probably also a trademark violation? It's not saying that it's "like" a TikTok feed, it's saying that it "is" a TikTok feed.
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dgreensp ◴[21 Oct 24 12:52 UTC] No.41903628[source]▶
Yup, it's a sketchy-sounding concept. Is it for "your own videos," or TikTok videos? Why does it have the TikTok logo in it??

It looks like it's a fork or repackaging of someone else's TikTok "clone."

The author's writing is fluent, but the whole thing is kind of odd. This is the Internet; the developer could be 17. Who knows.

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1. baumschubser ◴[21 Oct 24 13:09 UTC] No.41903779[source]▶
> The author's writing is fluent, but the whole thing is kind of odd. This is the Internet; the developer could be 17. Who knows.

They may be 17 or 57, why does that matter?

To me the Readme seems absolutely professional. Putting together some React UI lib, use Caddy, put it all in Docker, write a comprehensive Readme with everything there is to know about it and release it. Looks pretty standard (in a good way) to me.

Granted, the Tiktok reference is a bit clickbaity. But that's just Github in the year 2024, isn't it?

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2. notpushkin ◴[21 Oct 24 13:18 UTC] No.41903865[source]▶
Using the TikTok logo in the app is kinda inappripriate, but otherwise yeah, I think just saying “TikTok for X” gets the idea across in the most concise way. Adding some info on what the videos could be from would be nice though (i.e. do I paste a bunch of YouTube links, or upload files myself, or..?)
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3. sabbaticaldev ◴[21 Oct 24 13:57 UTC] No.41904204[source]▶
inappropriate to whom?
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4. justusthane ◴[21 Oct 24 14:58 UTC] No.41904913[source]▶
That was my original point though — it’s not saying that it’s “like TikTok” or “TikTok for X”, it’s literally saying that it is TikTok.

Edit: The title is “TikTok feed for your clips” so I guess in a literal sense it is describing itself as “TikTok for X”, but I think that’s kind of like saying that something is “Uber for ridesharing”. Yeah, that’s just Uber.

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5. warkdarrior ◴[21 Oct 24 16:25 UTC] No.41905757{3}[source]▶
At a minimum, inappropriate from TikTok/ByteDance's point of view. Even if we put that aside, users of this app may find it inappropriate that this app advertised as a "TikTok feed" app is not a TikTok feed app (so it appears very much like a scam from the point of view).
6. notpushkin ◴[23 Oct 24 10:57 UTC] No.41923745{3}[source]▶
> I think that’s kind of like saying that something is “Uber for ridesharing”.

It’s more like “Uber for your own cars”. (Would be neat by the way, although I have no idea how it would work!)

Emphasis in “TikTok feed for your clips” is on you curating the feed and supplying the clips – TikTok here refers to the TikTok-like UI, not the platform itself. I’m not sure who would want that, but the idea seems pretty clear to me. Perhaps a less ambiguous description would work better though, I agree.