Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi...
by matiastucci on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:47PM
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that looks great. Yeah, I'm still figuring out the business model. I think a one time purchase is probably what I'm going to do. BTW, after launching it in Product Hunt I saw a few similar ideas too :)
Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi...
by deckeraa on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:58PM
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One of my users pointed out that it would be nice to have a fully off-line capable app. There are a couple barriers to this:
- It would require users to have a p2p system set up to get the video onto their system, which is a configuration barrier for most users.
- It's not clear what the monetization strategy would be to fund the development of the app.
- It would require a large amount of device storage to hold the videos.
But if someone were able to figure those out, they might be able to differentiate from the similar products.
Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi...
by matiastucci on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:04PM
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offline would be great, but yeah... I think that is going to be hard and expensive, like you said
Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi...
by sjg007 on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:57PM
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You could probably sell subscriptions to you-tubers who want to annotate videos on their channels. I am sure they would find a way to do cool things with it.
Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi...
by matiastucci on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:05PM
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yeah, I think I'll make a list of a couple YouTube channels I like and reach to them
A couple months ago I launched a site (https://familymemorystream.com/) that allows annotating videos but is targeted towards the niche of converted family videos.
I was considering opening it up to make a generic "video note taker" version; it looks like you beat me to it :) Best wishes! It will be interesting to see where you end up with the pricing model. It looks like you're using YouTube/Vimeo for the video hosting so that frees you up to do one-time purchases if you want since your server costs will likely stay fairly constant across scale.