alt Hacker NewsBut a thumbnail generator is a 1 hour task at best if you’re on a solo greenfield project and it’ll still be a 6 week project at an enterprise, even with AI.
But a thumbnail generator is a 1 hour task at best if you’re on a solo greenfield project and it’ll still be a 6 week project at an enterprise, even with AI.
I would be impressed if you implement it in an hour with the following features:
- webview fallback with canvas capture for codecs not supported in the default player
- detecting blank frames and diff between thumbnails to maximize variety
- UI integration to visualize progress and pending thumbnails, batched updates to the gallery
- versioning scheme and backfill for missing/outdated thumbnail formats
Honestly, a day seems rather optimistic to me. Maybe if I was an expert for this platform and would have implemented a similar feature before, then I could hope to do it in a day.
If I had to handwrite it and estimate it for Scrum at work, I‘d budget a week.