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A bug saved the company

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379 points ingve | 2 comments | 24 Aug 25 09:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kristianp ◴[26 Aug 25 05:47 UTC] No.45022718[source]▶
Why do we need a paid app to record audio from the system? Surely it's a small enough job for a small utility/script? This seems very Mac ecosystem to me.
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1. Springtime ◴[26 Aug 25 06:16 UTC] No.45022883[source]▶
For the past like 30 years I feel there's never been a time some commercial Mac program hasn't filled a simple niche. I remember someone last year posting a Show HN for an ffmpeg wrapper for Mac with a limited feature that focused on transcoding and made $9k in the first 4 months.

Or in the late 90s when there was a commercial program that allowed OS 9 to show real-time window previews while dragging rather than merely showing the window border outline.

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2. aaronbrethorst ◴[26 Aug 25 06:29 UTC] No.45022977[source]▶
Once upon a time, Steve Wozniak paid me ten dollars for what was essentially a fancy GUI on top of an AppleScript.