Suggestion: allow the creator to control the play speed at specific places in the gif. Eg play it faster along a long stretch of straight road, but then slower when making turns. In first example on the site, I find it difficult to see where that last turn into the diveway happens because it happens so fast.

Yeah great suggestion. My aim is to automate this using a simple computer vision algo that detects the lateral movement of objects in a frame and slows down those specific parts

Until that point I'll have to persuade people to slow down the recording on those parts. Still, I think the sample video is understandable at least

I'm honestly completely mystified what this service is. You say:

"Upload a video" - upload a video of what? "Set a target location" - a target location of what?

Then you give a sample gif which does nothing but confuse me more.

Who is this for? What does it do? Why is it better than the alternative? Is the video generated automatically? If so, how? If not the why am do I need your service at all?

From what I can tell, you upload a video and then create a link for it? Why not just upload the video to YouTube or streamable? It also displays a map with a pin. Why would I not just sent a link to Google maps? You also ask me for my location - why?

I get that it's your first product but I really think you need to look at this from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about the service.

I hear your concerns and thanks for taking the time to respond. I will try to work on the messaging

edited: flippancy

Your reply is flippant. I came here to express almost the exact same list of concerns.

Upload a video of what? I believe the answer is of the path between an easily located starting point and the actual final destination, but I'm not entirely clear. You mention unmapped or indoor areas in another reply, but your page needs to make this more clear.

Set a target location of what? I'm actually puzzled by this one. If I'm correct on the first guess then it's presumably either the starting or ending point. However, neither of those makes particular sense. The starting point is easily reached, by definition, and the ending point can't be targeted on a map, by definition.

Your page needs to actually answer the Who, What, Why, and How questions the unfamiliar user will be wondering.

In particular, "we do video magic" is entirely uninformative and is the only explanation of what you're actually offering that might be new. I can already upload a video and provide a map with services I already use.

Something that seems to be a main feature - "let the owner know you're on your way" is hidden in the 'sample' page and unmentioned on the first. From it, I deduce the problem you're solving is last-100-feet for deliveries or visitors.

And why does the 'see a sample' page ask for my geolocation?

Edit: I am actually curious - this might be interesting - and I hope you'll answer these questions here!

Perhaps you should add some extra information below-the-fold:

1) help visitors or deliveries get from an easily-mapped location (the front gate) to their final destination (your door)

2) simply film a video walking or driving the path, and let us adjust its speed into an easily-reviewed guide

3) provide a single, short url with the map, video, and a button to notify you they've arrived

4) perfect for business plazas, college campuses, parks and tourist sites, and unaddressed areas

Take a look at how https://plus.codes pitches itself, since there are plenty of similarities.

This is very helpful thanks!

It might be a bit too wordy. My experience is that people will avoid reading anything. But I will try to get your sentiments across in a video. People like videos :)

Regarding wordiness - that's why you put it below the fold. People who prefer reading know to scroll down to get the textual version instead of having to watch a video.

And that's not saying you have to do pure text without graphics.

You're right in many respects; I'm requiring the users to make a leap from the title of the page 'Gif Directions' to uploading a video, which will become the directions.

I had to strike a balance between short, pithy explanations which make an impact and drowning in waffle.

But as its a v1 I have lots of time to improve, thanks for your commment :)

Same. I skimmed through all comments in this thread and still have no idea what this service does.

From the intro video it seems to be a service that converts a video to a gif.

That's basically it!

Then what's up with the whole "directions" part?

In an answer to another comment you wrote:

> I'm requiring the users to make a leap from the title of the page 'Gif Directions' to uploading a video, which will become the directions.

Maybe you should clarify what you mean with "directions".

It looks really good: the idea is cute, and your intro video is great.

Would you be open in adding Sign in with Apple?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sign_in_with_apple

I don't have an active Google account, and with Apple's service in I can opt-out of giving my direct email away.

Ah, the problem. I have started using my custom domain and a random username for each service, derived from the service's domain. Pretty easy way to not give away your email.

I do this as well, but it's a lot nicer (and actually private) to have a random @privaterelay.appleid.com.

> (and actually private)

It's private, assuming we trust Apple. For now Apple is privacy friendly, but this might change in a couple of years.

Thanks for the kind feedback! Yes I'm looking into a few of these options at the moment

One I've just been given is metomic.io/alias which looks to solve that

Seems like an interesting idea, but I'm still not quite clear what it does exactly (other than speeding up an uploaded video). And only showing it in a video isn't great - IMHO you should expand on the text on the page, link a live example, ...

I also can't replay the demo video without reloading the page.

One of the few marketing uses of a pun where I'm not groaning immediately ;)

Very helpful feedback thanks

Changes made!

At first I was assuming this was using streetview. I realise not everywhere is included on streetview, but when it is, it would be nice to have the option of using that instead of having to shoot your own video.

That was one of my first thoughts too when making this. I'll have a go and see if I can hack something together :)

There used to be this cool demo(?) called Hyperlapse few years ago, basically stitching multiple street view images https://thenextweb.com/google/2013/04/09/hyperlapse-crazy-hi...

I would imagine that use of streetview imaging would not meet the api agreement for google maps. They have little incentive to allow it to be reused in something like this.

When you get things polished, please display attribution for the map. See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Fixed! :) (e.g. https://www.gif.direct/pyongyang)

Ah yes, couldn't have done without it, will add now

Thanks for sharing this; it looks neat! The text currently says "Its free" (rather than "It's free").

Thanks! changed :)