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Show HN: Tikt.com - Remove the "OK" from TikTok URL's to Download
as MP3 or MP4
Author : nadermx
Score : 75 points
Date : 2025-06-15 18:02 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (tikt.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (tikt.com)
| v5v3 wrote:
| I can see it being useful as a web app.
|
| I would suggest that you consider also add a mobile app so you
| have a rounded offering.
|
| As on a regular basis I see a video in tiktok and want to share
| with people who refuse to join Tiktok, so use one of the many
| apps available to download and then send via WhatsApp.
| bramhaag wrote:
| > I would suggest that you consider also add a mobile app so
| you have a rounded offering
|
| Why does everything have to be a mobile app? The website works
| fine on mobile.
| hamburglar wrote:
| Indeed. This compulsion is infuriating because it becomes
| normalized to require an app for things that very much should
| be a website.
|
| At least once a month I have the experience where I either
| have to ask someone "am I forced to used your app to use your
| product/service" and they are baffled by the resistance. I
| just went through the exercise of net-sniffing my kids'
| school bus status app because it is obviously just a wrapper
| around a web UI but nobody --- not the district nor the
| company that makes the app --- will actually admit this.
| Turns out there is a secret web page that offers the EXACT
| same functionality from a mobile browser. And the kicker: it
| works better.
| jampekka wrote:
| Chrome PWAs can act as share targets.
|
| https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
| 0points wrote:
| This guy likes to app.
| yreg wrote:
| This wouldn't get past app review.
| ksec wrote:
| I am more surprised by the name! How did you even manage to get
| the domain?
| varun_ch wrote:
| I noticed the website looked quite similar to other websites for
| downloading videos, and then found the link to your personal
| website in the footer (which links to your other sites). How/why
| do you run so many similar websites? Surely the domain name costs
| alone are insane? And all linked back to your name? Legal
| liability? Is this profitable?
| mouse_ wrote:
| SEO
| nadermx wrote:
| It's fun to do.
| zffr wrote:
| Do you ever get threatening letters from the legal
| departments of these companies?
|
| I once built a site like this for a popular social media
| site, and got an email from their lawyers claiming "Unlawful
| Use of COMPANY's Trademarks / Service Marks"
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| I love the internet
| yreg wrote:
| Thank you for your service. Your tools are helpful.
| pestaa wrote:
| A 4 letter dotcom registered in 2002. Curious what it was used
| for, how you got it for this project, and what it's worth on the
| market if you were to sell it. I feel a sense of awe like it's an
| old statue.
| saddist0 wrote:
| My guesss, but I wonder if it was bought for Tikt = Ticket?
| thekevan wrote:
| "A 4 letter dotcom"
|
| My guess is it was bought because of that.
| abxyz wrote:
| They're not that valuable. There are a lot of domains from the
| 90s that you can pick up for cheap. All 4L .coms sold out in
| the mid 2000s and on the open market they typically start
| around $350 for junk letters and go up from there. The OP
| probably paid under $1500 for this domain and I'd guess they
| bought it recently.
|
| 3L.com domains start at around $10k for the worst letters and
| go up from there.
|
| 2L.com start around $500k.
|
| Add in numbers and the price falls substantially. You can pick
| up 2 letters + 1 number (e.g: b0w.com) for under $500.
| nikanj wrote:
| Where should one head if they wanted to get a short domain
| like that?
| fragmede wrote:
| the domain itself. eg josj.com (picked at random) is
| available.
| nikanj wrote:
| Ah, those were monthly prices for leasing the domain, not
| prices to buy? At least josj.com is offering a monthly
| plan
| charlangas wrote:
| How much was the domain?
| xnx wrote:
| yt-dlp wrapper?
| nadermx wrote:
| no.
| FireInsight wrote:
| Why not?
| nadermx wrote:
| https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13235
| phyzix5761 wrote:
| What's preventing this website from injecting malware or doing
| other nefarious things before serving the content?
| giancarlostoro wrote:
| Same thing preventing ad networks from being used the same way.
| Which is how I got malware on my system for the last time ever
| (I stopped letting Flash and Java run in browser).
| cellularmitosis wrote:
| Is it possible for an mp3 or mp4 to contain malware?
| metalman wrote:
| I can see this bieng very important for some people who want to
| recover local copys of there own work, and also as a generalised
| way to jail break a good chunk of the internet for ordinary
| people,giving a sort of personal album of favorites that you dont
| have to search for, well you know what I mean, at least it's on
| your phone the idea of copyright bieng theoretical for any of the
| big outfits scraping up everything for there latest LLM, so it's
| all whatever , another thing is that these days you need to have
| blinders on when scrolling the ordinary net as anything, anything
| at all, might just pop up past the sensors, so saving the good
| stuff when you find it, and hoping it works as brain wash
| TZubiri wrote:
| Is this not ok?
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