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Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by thrownaway954 on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:07PM (#24547844)
niiiiiiiiice... i think this is something that alot of schools could use since everything is going online.

i'm going to echo @rkhassen9 observation that your pricing model isn't attractive to the average person. this is totally my opinion, but the value here is the amount of notes you collect. while the average person is not willing to pay to record note, businesses are definitely willing to pay to retrieve the notes of others. if you let people annotate an unlimited number of votes with an unlimited number of notes you will build your database faster. then you could charge businesses to have access to those notes via an API. on a consumer side of that, individuals could see all of their notes but can only see the last 5 recent notes for others.

all in all though, this is a really cool product and will definitely be a game changer as more and more schools and classes move to online.

Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by sciencewolf on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:41AM (#24553751)
I'm trying to understand why businesses would pay for these notes. The only things that come to mind are research/AI purposes-- essentially having a dataset to feed into marketing or market-research efforts? Maybe someone can enlighten me.
Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by thrownaway954 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:17AM (#24554038)
businesses pay HUGE money for focus groups and A/B testing. think of the notes as detailed points of these. not to mention a wider and honest sample pool.
Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by thrownaway954 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:24AM (#24554108)
also... this is great way for businesses to find out more about their competitors.
Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by matiastucci on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:42PM (#24548222)
yeah, I totally agree. Definitely this business model it's not great. I still need to think it more. Thanks for the feedback :)