Maybe Borland Turbo C? I also think Visual Basic for DOS had a text-mode UI editor.

Indeed VB for dos had a UI designer with buttons, forms, dialogue boxes etc.

In widescreen, the UI is unusable and gets very small on a video page for some reason. The overall design is genuinely overwhelming and feels like a bunch of components pasted in without any thought put into layout or scale.

It's a thin ChatGPT wrapper with AI-generated testimonial videos.

Thanks! Still, for an MVP, it’s pretty practical and cheaper than a GPT sub right now. Could’ve been a Ghigli generator or maybe just a wrapper around an image generator, or music (which are quite popular). Still, the idea at a later stage is to use brain-to-text to input information with the mind.

Is the plan to monetize this with paid 'gear' upgrades & 'claiming'? Feels a lot like an NFT project from 3 years ago.

Haha I don't think anyone would pay money for a monkey hat, and it would take away from the fun if they did

Some people would. But that doesn’t mean we should exploit them. I really admire what you’ve made and I think any attempt to cash in would sour and diminish your accomplishment.

Not that art shouldn’t be salable. But not all art is appropriate for monetization.

Using a subdomain as a file URL feels vaguely wrong and I don't think it's very clear to the recipient what they're actually clicking on, but the UX is at least smooth. I don't think /file/[keyword] would be that bad.

Maybe avoid using AI art with mangled hands and a visually noisy generated logo for your branding.

I've had issues with some software & games not being able to get a proper display context and refusing to start.

Yes I have seen OpenGL applications refuse to start with AMD cards in some circumstances due to a bug in the AMD drivers, but never had a problem on NVIDIA cards

I think this originates from Isaacson's biography and was about the iPod?

I also don't understand having a search interface not front-and-center and under the weird sub-brand of "SepiaSearch".

Completely agree. I actually think Sepia search is quite good. It's what peer tube desperately needs and it's so much better than the individual search features on all the different instances which are a complete mess. So I don't understand why it's pulled out into a separate brand and separate domain.

I'm honestly confused. Are you complaining about "joinpeertube.org" or the typical Peertube instance? If the former ... why would you want it to have any search capability? It's not a video host. If the latter (e.g. https://peer.tube/), the search is not at all hard to find.

ArchiveBox works decently with Javascript and uses a headless browser, can be deployed with Docker

Which content/information sites dependant on javascript can be found? I always find marketing oriented or app interaction heavily using js and thus unable to archive...but otherwise...

Literally any modern social media, YouTube comments, anything using client-side rendering frameworks

I don't see Youtube/IG/Fb/Tiktok comments as valuable content or information, I would be surprised if somebody is treasuring such content.

Maybe tweets, but APIs are available for archiving (more or less).