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Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by deckeraa »

matiastucci wrote: post #19
deckeraa wrote: post #18

Interesting to see this. 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 YouTu…

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 :)

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 videos

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Post by matiastucci »

deckeraa wrote: post #21
matiastucci wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

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…

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 videos

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Post by matiastucci »

sjg007 wrote: post #20
matiastucci wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

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.

yeah, I think I'll make a list of a couple YouTube channels I like and reach to them

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by ashton314 »

For the Emacs nerds among us, you can hack something similar together: when you start the video, also start a timer running in Emacs org-mode with `org-timer-start` (`C-c C-x 0`) You can then insert timestamped notes with `C-c C-x -`, and once you've got a timestamp note, you can hit `M-RET` to insert a new one with a new timestamp.

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by thrownaway954 »

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 videos

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Post by matiastucci »

proee wrote: post #27

Feedback: The "Cancel" and "Create" buttons are too close to each other. If you accidentally click on the "Cancel" button you lose your entire note. Perhaps move the cancel button to a less prominent position and add a confirmation dialog box.

Makes sense. Thank you for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by matiastucci »

ashton314 wrote: post #24

For the Emacs nerds among us, you can hack something similar together: when you start the video, also start a timer running in Emacs org-mode with `org-timer-start` (`C-c C-x 0`) You can then insert timestamped notes with `C-c C-x -`, and once you've got a timestamp note, you can hit `M-RET` to insert a new one with a new timestamp.

thanks for the tip! it's a little less user friendly though haha
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