Re:Stupeflix To Help Create The Next Instragram, Vine
by jmathai on Friday September 13, 2013 @07:16PM
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Thanks for the response. I'll have a deeper look at the APIs. There might be something in there that's useful to us.
I think the promotional/brand/agency experiences is a really big market in need of ways to quickly build and deploy apps.
[I'm the OP & guy in the video]
The 15 new APIs are a suite of specific services to quickly transcode, resize, slice & dice all kinds of media assets. They're meant to quickly build UI features around UGC media for web & mobile apps. Yes: if media asset management is the core value proposition, these services may be used to rapidly prototype and test new features, rather than build the core product. We do however have customers in the photo sharing space. The majority of them are either starting apps, or building UX quickly - for instance we've powered promotional experiences for all kinds of large brands (Coke, Visa, Samsung, Nike) e.g. jordan.com/liftoff
Our core product is the video creation API: send a XML description of the composition of a video, it renders a video file.
The video messaging was more mass media than HN.