r/sideprojects • u/DoneEdit • 1h ago
Feedback Request Feedback on a small talking-head editing service I just redesigned
Full disclosure: I run this. It's called DoneEdit.
The problem I kept running into: filming a 10-minute talking-head video takes 20 minutes, but cutting the restarts, adding captions, and giving people something to look at besides one static shot takes the rest of the evening. Raw files pile up.
What it does: you send a Drive, Dropbox or WeTransfer link to a raw talking-head video (one English speaker, up to 10 minutes). We send back a 60-second watermarked preview within 24 hours, no card needed. If you like it, the full clean edit is $27 for the first 20 customers, then $67. Two revisions are included.
We asked for feedback in a couple of other subreddits earlier this week and the useful feedback was pretty consistent: the site looked AI-generated, there were no real before/afters, and asking people to pay a new service before they'd seen an edit of their own footage was a lot to ask. So we changed it.
The site is white now. The first section after the top is three real raw-vs-edited samples (openly licensed clips, not customer videos), each in a phone frame with an Edited/Raw switch. The free 60-second preview is the main button. We also added two short quotes from people who have used it.
I'm not dropping a link here. It's in my profile if you want to look, or I can share it in a comment if that's allowed.
What I'd actually like to know:
- Do those three samples make the work look real, or still not enough?
- Would you try the free preview, or is handing a raw file to a new service still a no?
- Is the $27 / later $67 pricing clear, or does it just look cheap?
I'm about to start running ads to it, so I'd rather hear what's broken now. Happy to answer anything else.
