A relevant audience are the corporate computing inmates, who cannot install anything locally... They are happy to find utilities wrapped behind some web front.
There are already lots of online convertors. This is FOSS and a bit more trustworthy but very few people in corporate environments will care about that
An often missed driver for the cloud-ification of everything is that it offers a way to escape corporate IT. Sending a 20mb file 2000 miles away to do something trivial to it and send it back is easier than getting permission to install an app.
It really is. At a previous job, the approval process for a tool involved a questionnaire that rivalled a census, and a wait time of 4-6 weeks for approval. I literally never had any software refused via this process - most people just didn’t bother filling it in.
> Basically, denying or not seeing the practicality factor of web hosted solutions is either trying to be edgy or worryingly myopic
Are you unsatisfied with the myriad of Imagemagick, FFMPEG, sox or Ghostscript GUI front-ends ? What does a web deployment offer ? Even not taking privacy concerns in consideration, the local solution if better - I guess a one-off conversion might wish to eschew local installation, but such bread-and-butter operations are rarely one-off.
Or should we consider the market for a zip/7zip/rar/tar.gz file compression web front-end ?
