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by baumschubser 603 days ago
> 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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notpushkin 603 days ago
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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justusthane 603 days ago
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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notpushkin 601 days ago
> 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.

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sabbaticaldev 603 days ago
inappropriate to whom?
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warkdarrior 603 days ago
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).
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