I tried signing up, it can't validate my email :) after I click on validation link, tried link and button...
Honestly speaking, I did not expect this level of traffic on the site, there was a slowdown in the mail sending service, it is fixed now, please try again.
Looks like it might still be struggling with the HN hug. I tried it, I gave it three easy topics to use, it understood them and tried to produce the web page, but it still says “Videos: 0” for all three groups.
You can still get your fix in quick enough to benefit from some of this traffic spike, go for it! Good luck.
The third party tooling is constantly at risk of being broken by YouTube. Not sure regulation is the answer either. Any alternative still needs to at least attract creators and cover it's own costs.
Regulation is constantly at risk of having unintended consequences and preventing new entrants and innovation. We shouldn't create regulations to deal with problems that are being solved by the market
Please point to any sort of competition or current market-based alternative to YT that addresses the concerns above.
Agree - I wanted to try this and I expect it to work like YouTube or close as possible. I am not watching 5 minute demo or signing up for a random project even if I would love to use YouTube in a more mindful way. Just give me a search bar and allow me to search 10 times for free and then I might sign up.
I am realizing this now, even when I am trying out a new project, I would love to see how it works before signing up and verifying my email address. Thanks for your feedback, will work on to allow login-free access for demo.
I don't even know what it is based on the first impression. If you're trying to be the alternative to X, a comparison of "how this works" might be enough to get me to give you an email - though signing in to use it immediately feels like YT, not an alternative. Your "Why Choose FocusStream?" points are all over the place and unlikely to resonate equally with your audience. I'd suggest attacking the competition with the one major differentiator and then showing how that works.Example "See video lengths upfront, track your progress, and make every minute count." is not nearly as compelling as "No ads, no autoplay" IMO.
Finally, I find this contradictory: "no algorithmic rabbit holes... Tell us your interests. We find the highest-quality videos from across the web" - I suspect what you're trying to provide is curation focused on helping me learn about specific topics vs. serving up what will keep me engaged and watching longer. If that's accurate something like "algorithmic recommendations that REDUCE how much time you spend on our site" would be a unique value prop.
Good to see something like this, but you can solve some of the problems within youtube like autoplay, you can disable it. As for the recommendations on homepage you can clear youtube history and pause it in yours accounts activity center¹, for hiding video suggestions, personally I use theatre mode(so that i need to scroll) and extension to disable it. Similarly I hide the YouTube shorts using the extension. Also, th…
Except half of it doesn't fucking work. I click on "show fewer shorts" on the homepage, refresh the page, and still see shorts in the second row. Sometimes I do that 10x in a row to no effect. I deleted my YouTube history just this week, but my homepage is full of music mixes that start with a song I definitely listened to that are supposedly "deleted" from my history. I would think if I start from a supposedly blank…
I'd suggest using YT not logged in and within a container. The "personalization" - as you mention - doesn't add much and really just increases your value to YT.
I am going to assume the way you have implemented this is that your application has a search component that searches for known topics, loads the videos, extracts subs and stores them in vectorized format inside a database. when a user searches for something you simply lookup this vector data and link the YT video corresponding to it
Good to see something like this, but you can solve some of the problems within youtube like autoplay, you can disable it. As for the recommendations on homepage you can clear youtube history and pause it in yours accounts activity center¹, for hiding video suggestions, personally I use theatre mode(so that i need to scroll) and extension to disable it. Similarly I hide the YouTube shorts using the extension. Also, th…
Except half of it doesn't fucking work. I click on "show fewer shorts" on the homepage, refresh the page, and still see shorts in the second row. Sometimes I do that 10x in a row to no effect. I deleted my YouTube history just this week, but my homepage is full of music mixes that start with a song I definitely listened to that are supposedly "deleted" from my history. I would think if I start from a supposedly blank…
>I deleted my YouTube history just this week, but my homepage is full of music mixes that start with a song I definitely listened to that are supposedly "deleted" from my history
Consider clearing out session cookies, I am under the impression that your recommended videos are also using that as a source.
Regulation is constantly at risk of having unintended consequences and preventing new entrants and innovation. We shouldn't create regulations to deal with problems that are being solved by the market
Please point to any sort of competition or current market-based alternative to YT that addresses the concerns above.
Well, certain adult sites do have educational content, often with better economics for the creator than YouTube.
I think those of us who want youtube without the distractions should start a campaign to convince google to make https://www.youtube.com/learning better. I think even tweeting about it so that our efforts are reported by large news outlets would work. If there aren't enough users asking for this feature, we will be ignored. Someone needs to build a website that coordinates our efforts.