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Eric Lu

What they don't tell you about naming a startup

What they don't tell you about naming a startup

In the last two years, I've named eight different websites and side projects. It turns out, naming a startup is a lot harder than advice articles make it seem. In this post, I’ll share what I learned the hard way about choosing a startup name. Background Many

How to Add Dynamic Meta Tags Server Side with Create React App

How to Add Dynamic Meta Tags Server Side with Create React App

This issue [https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/1261] in the create-react-app repo has been getting a lot of attention recently, so I thought I'd write a brief tutorial with an example of how to add dynamic metadata tags server side with React. Want to skip right to

Cloud costs aren't actually dropping dramatically

Cloud costs aren't actually dropping dramatically

Since starting work on Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com], I’ve noticed a lot of buzz in the Silicon Valley about cloud costs "dropping dramatically." Entrepreneurs, VCs, and the media write about this trend, claiming that it’s enabled a new wave of startups in fields like artificial

How to Add Subtitles to Video Permanently Online

How to Add Subtitles to Video Permanently Online

We all know that it's hard to add subtitles to your video. But in this post, I'll show you how to easily add subtitles to any video without downloading any software or using any complicated tools. Kapwing's Subtitle Maker lets you automatically generate subtitles

We let users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology - here's what happened

We let users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology - here's what happened

We added a paywall to Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com/], our video editing startup, two weeks ago. But to help ease the transition, we allowed users to skip the paywall if they wrote an good reason for why they couldn't pay. In this post, I'll share

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