Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
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Re: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
#2Too bad I never even heard of this.
I'd pay $10-15/month for a service which had world/indie/fringe cinema all in one place.
edit: the closest i've found, is Kanopy[0]. which is free with a library card. (with NYPL, i get 10 titles/month).
Re: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
#3his other service https://www.festivilia.com/ is interesting.
I had no idea so many film festivals exist.
Re: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
#4Is the title of this post uptalking? (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/caveman-logic/201010...) Or is there a legitimate question as to if money was lost? Doesn't seem so from the article.
I suppose there's always just the typo possibility as well.
Re: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
#5Too bad I never even heard of this. I'd pay $10-15/month for a service which had world/indie/fringe cinema all in one place. edit: the closest i've found, is Kanopy[0]. which is free with a library card. (with NYPL, i get 10 titles/month). [0]: https://www.kanopy.com/
The Criterion Channel streaming service launches today. This will make all of their library available again, after FilmStruck got shut down by the AT&T/Time Warner purchase.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/browse
Launch lineup and initial rollout plan here:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6258-lusty-pre-code-...
Re: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
#6Summary: Hosting videos is expensive. Especially when there is no revenue. The founder is Nigerian and I'm assuming the initial market was Nigeria where most people still prefer cash, face to face payment to credit/debit card payments. The fact that the largest eCommerce site in the country still has pay on delivery speaks volumes.
As said in the article, if they'd used Youtube as their host for videos, cost would have dropped dramatically and they could have survived for much longer, even become profitable with just sidebar ads.
If the founder is reading this, I recommend, trying again but this time, as a community and curation service for short films. Experiment with membership fees as a social network for film makers. And copy the Jiji model for prominent placement of videos on the site.
Business is a marathon, a survival game until you figure out income.
Re: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
#7A similar startup called Afrostream was in YC years ago (https://blog.ycombinator.com/afrostream-yc-s15-makes-it-easy...) looks like they shut down as well.
Re: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
#8A similar startup called Afrostream was in YC years ago ( https://blog.ycombinator.com/afrostream-yc-s15-makes-it-easy... ) looks like they shut down as well.
That’s too bad. Looks like they had some emphasis on African ex-pat communities. Wonder why the focus wasn’t more on Africa itself?
Re: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
#9Too bad I never even heard of this. I'd pay $10-15/month for a service which had world/indie/fringe cinema all in one place. edit: the closest i've found, is Kanopy[0]. which is free with a library card. (with NYPL, i get 10 titles/month). [0]: https://www.kanopy.com/
Give Mubi a try: https://mubi.com/
Re: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films
#10The main challenge in building an African Netflix is not technology, it's having critical mass in terms of video content, as well as having at least a couple anchor series that cannot be seen absolutely anywhere else. Netflix has Stranger Things, Marvel series such as Daredevil that creates a lot of social media noise. Once customers watch those, then they discover the smaller series and get hooked on Netflix.