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Aethercut is a macOS app that lets users transform any website into a native desktop app. It provides a lightweight wrapper for web apps and sites, enabling them to run as standalone applications on the Mac.

Background

- AetherCut is a web-based video editor that runs entirely in the browser, using AI to generate captions, B-roll suggestions, and automatic reframing for different aspect ratios. - The "Hey HN" post format refers to a common type of introduction on Hacker News (HN), a news aggregator run by Y Combinator that is popular among developers, tech founders, and venture capital-minded readers. A "Show HN" or "Hey HN" post is typically a founder or indie developer launching a project and seeking feedback. - Y Combinator is the most prestigious startup accelerator in Silicon Valley, so a product appearing on HN carries implicit signaling about startup culture, fundraising, and product-market fit validation. - This matters because the video-editing tool space is currently crowded with AI-powered editors (e.g., Runway, Descript, CapCut), and AetherCut's claim to be fully browser-based without uploads or processing time is a technical differentiator that HN readers would evaluate for feasibility and cleverness.

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