Stop wasting time uploading videos. Here’s a 0-second-wait trimmer ⚡️

Samlee Phiput — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:30:01 +0000

A few weeks ago I just wanted to trim 5 seconds from a video.
That somehow turned into:
● waiting for upload progress bars 🫠
● creating an account
● hitting export limits
● getting a watermark
● waiting AGAIN for rendering
For a tiny edit.
It honestly felt ridiculous.
So I built a small browser-based tool instead:
👉 Video Cutter(https://videocutter.io/)
The idea was simple:
Click → trim → exportNo upload waiting. No sign-up. No nonsense.
Because the processing happens locally in the browser, you can start editing immediately instead of uploading a giant file to a server first.
Current tools:
● ✂️ Video Cutter
● 🎬 YouTube Cutter
● 🔄 Flip Video
● ↩️ Rotate Video
● 🖼️ Crop Video
Still very early though 😅
The UI definitely needs work, and I’m still improving:
● ffmpeg.wasm performance
● browser memory handling
● mobile compatibility
● large file stability
One thing I learned while building this:
A lot of “online video editors” are basically upload platforms first, editors second.
For quick edits, upload time is often slower than the actual edit itself.
Would love feedback from other builders/devs here 🙌
Especially if you’ve worked with:
● browser-side processing
● WebAssembly
● video pipelines
● large file optimization
Always happy to learn and improve.

DEV Community: Samlee Phiput

Stop wasting time uploading videos. Here’s a 0-second-wait trimmer ⚡️