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Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch

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Post by SamBam »

shapov wrote: post #10
stevelow wrote: post #4

Hi, I'm Steve, one of the developers on the ViewedIt team. If you have any questions about ViewedIt, we're listening and are happy to answer them. ViewedIt recordings are powered by the chrome screen recording apis - https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabCapture for browser tab recording, getUserMedia for screen & webcam, and the MediaRecorder api to record the streams.

As a person receiving the screen recording, do I have the option to opt-out, and not report my viewing metrics back to the creator?

+1. Similarly, as a creator do I have the option of opting out all my viewers of metrics, so that the issue never even comes up for them?

If I'm creating a video, I don't want the people I'm sending it to to feel like I'm getting marketing data from them (assuming I'm not).

Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch

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Post by shapov »

SamBam wrote: post #11
shapov wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a person receiving the screen recording, do I have the option to opt-out, and not report my viewing metrics back to the creator?

+1. Similarly, as a creator do I have the option of opting out all my viewers of metrics, so that the issue never even comes up for them? If I'm creating a video, I don't want the people I'm sending it to to feel like I'm getting marketing data from them (assuming I'm not).

Yep, I was thinking that it will make the viewers feel like someone is standing over the shoulder watching.

Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch

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Post by dccollie »

shapov wrote: post #10
stevelow wrote: post #4

Hi, I'm Steve, one of the developers on the ViewedIt team. If you have any questions about ViewedIt, we're listening and are happy to answer them. ViewedIt recordings are powered by the chrome screen recording apis - https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabCapture for browser tab recording, getUserMedia for screen & webcam, and the MediaRecorder api to record the streams.

As a person receiving the screen recording, do I have the option to opt-out, and not report my viewing metrics back to the creator?

Hey, I'm also a developer on ViewedIt.

As the viewer, you can't opt-out of analytics. The analytics are only identifiable as you (the viewer) if the recorder sends you the video through gmail as ViewedIt will append your email as a query string param to the ViewedIt link. If shared through social media, you'll still send analytics back so that the recorder knows how many views their video got, but you as the viewer won't be identified in those views.

Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch

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Post by dccollie »

rayalez wrote: post #16

Looks great! - Can I download the video? - Can I automatically share it on youtube? - Some basic editing functionality would be awesome.

Those are features that we may offer at some point.

ViewedIt runs on Vidyard's platform which supports all those features for paying accounts.

Re: Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch

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Post by devongall »

aesthetics1 wrote: post #19

Where are the videos stored? What does a user need to view a video?

Videos are stored in S3, and then syndicated to our CDNs around the world. The player is HTML5, with a flash fallback, so users shouldn't need anything special to watch.
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