Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos

Re:Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos by mahipal on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @10:49PM (#2488179)

I had this built to scratch my own itch: I would always find videos that I wanted to watch and bookmark them. And then I'd lose them in a sea of bookmarks. Whenever I wanted to watch something, it was hard to find something that fit how much time I had. So this solves both those problems.

I say "had this built" because it was my little experiment in management. The whole thing was put together by a team of 4 (including me) and now we've launched it without me writing a single line of code. Since I'm the guy who's usually coding nonstop to launch something, it was a refreshing change and a fun experiment.

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Re:Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos by mattdeboard on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @11:42PM (#2488283)

Do you plan on writing a blog post about this? I'd be interested to read it.

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Re:Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos by mahipal on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @12:33AM (#2488397)

Good to know. It was my first such experiment, and it does boil down to a few core principles I wanted to apply. I'll write something up once things calm down a little bit.

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Re:Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos by rakkhi on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @04:45AM (#2488841)

Great idea, often have this problem also especially with more people linking video on twitter, Techcrunch TV etc. Will check it out but will it cache the video on my iPhone and allow me to watch it without an internet connection? I.e. what Instapaper does for me for reading.

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Re:Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos by ljf on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @07:40AM (#2489118)

I can see there being issues with this, but that is something I would love - so I could bundle up some videos to watch on my tube ride home.

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Re:Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos by randall on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @05:46PM (#2491224)

My suggestion: An http://upl8.tv style interface for viewing.

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Re:Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos by ddinch on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @02:40AM (#2488649)

Awesome! We took a slightly different route and tried to build something similiar over a Startup Weekend.

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Re:Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos by mahipal on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @03:42PM (#2490778)

Cool. I've discovered several other apps like this in the past week or two. Is yours still up?

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