One reason would be support for far more file formats. Currently 2077 conversions are supported in How to Convert (many more to come), while 412 are supported in FileConverter. How to Convert also runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, while FileConverter is only on Windows.
It looks like a great project, but I can imagine it is hard for the maintainer to have time to add these features without any financial compensation. I'm not in a good financial place to make How to Convert open source yet, so am hoping users paying the current $7.5 will help support it's development.
It's a one time fee that gives you the project forever.
Sounds good, also I see that FileConverter needs "Microsoft Office installed and activated"
and you seem to use LibreOffice, +1 really.
On another note it would be great if you could change how you display those 2077 conversions in your website, I find it really awkward to look at them by scrolling and if my mouse get out of the popup it disappear.
If you can do something "similar" to FileConverter where you can see all of them (at least a lot) on one screen, it helps with doing CTRL + F and searching your file format. :)
Also I totally understand not making opensource but marketing your apps as privacy focused but it's closed source is hard to give you trust.
I'm not an expert in analyzing apps, I guess people could use wireshark and see that nothing is coming out of your apps.
The privacy aspect of the app is there are no servers converting the file for you. Everything happens in the browser (in the demo) or using local tools. The demo in the browser's privacy can be confirmed with for example Chrome Developer Tools. For the app, people can confirm no sending of files with tools like wireshark or little snitch, and if people have ideas on how I can improve that transparency, then I'd invite it.
Wouldn't it be a good idea that you make a normal website to convert file format like any others, but the online service serve as an ad for your offline conversion app ?
I'm actually partially implementing that with the demo at the top being able to use WASM tech to run the conversion software in the browser. That way, you can still use a website and convert entirely on your own machine.
I think kids will have a hard time learning and being smart with AI chewing everything for them.
I've read a few stories about parents questioning the over-use of AI from their child, adding to that I've seen my fair share of adult who cannot do anything without asking ChatGPT first.
For example, SDL 3 was officially released last week, which I think is significant. It was posted on HN, but it didn't get enough votes to be visible to me.
While it's clearly content marketing aimed at the hype of DeepSeek, it only mentions Lago in a single sentence.
It's just an article that is aimed to get you to hear about Lago, star their GitHub repository and eventually talk about the "open source" billing tool you heard about called Lago.
(I put Open Source in quotes because I think it's open source version is just Freeware with most features being Call To Action to a paid version. Fair disclosure I have https://github.com/billabear/billabear which is a competitor)
Eh, it's not disguised as anything, it's content marketing. Lago the API billing solution is not suggesting their product as a better alternative to ChatGPT.
To be fair, their ability to target HN is very good. I'm always impressed with their marketing. They put a good title that resonates with HN while the original title is something else for SEO.
2000-2005 is the sweet spot. Cars had immobilizers but not keyless entry. Basic electronics: airbags, electric windows, radio. Engines were naturally aspirated with port injection.
"Attention! The diagrams are saved in your browser. Before clearing the browser make sure to back up your data."
only at the very bottom of the home page ?