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Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup

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Re: Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup

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Post by iman »

blantonl wrote: post #28

Couple questions after visting: 1) How does it work? 2) What does it do? 3) Why should I sign up for an account? These are things that the front page should answer immediately. . But most importantly, how do you expect to generate revenue from this project? Not having a clear answer to that question would probably eliminate this as being called a "startup." Best of luck on your project!

1,2,3) You are right that the front page does not explain any of this. My thoughts right now are to hope that people click through into a video, and then from there that things are hopefully self-explanatory.

Regarding revenue: I have several ideas about this, but no clear well defined strategy. I would love to hear any ideas :)

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup

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Post by ay »

Fun! Here's an idea for you to consider for getting money out of it:

display the two choices "coming up" and accept person betting either on one or the other. Don't show how many people placed a bet.

When the choice is done - the part that won takes the bets of those who lost.

If a draw - like "zero", the house takes all the bets and makes a random choice.

"Make money while watching TV" - could be an appealing tagline to some :-)

--- edit: creating custom rooms could be a killer feature. Think of how a VJ can be put into the mix above - maybe leave him the %% of micropayments or points from each winning vote, or something like that.

I think this could make it.

Re: Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup

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Post by Jimega36 »

A fantastic simple idea. Video interaction is brilliant through gaming add-on. 3 comments:

1) Find a way to MAINTAIN gaming during the video (e.g. live comments adds of people in the room to the images?). That's because right now its fun to vote every 1:30minutes but then kind of boring to watch.. Althrough I stayed 3X more than initially planned ;-) This would allow maintaing people on site too since many people left/stopped voting after 1st video.

2) POINTS need to be prominent & STATUS linked: it's not about the money for me but the challenge & game. Many sites followed this model. When I win, the reward of points would need to incenvize me somehow. Make it big/prominent? What about leveraging STATUS with points too: status changes with results from say commoner to king to rock-star...

3) Consider Consumer Goods ads for site monetization: FMCG would pay to have their ads displayed (what about an ad of 10'' every few where people vote too???). I know that's old model but still there is something in the voting that could be a way for consumer research or brand 'interraction' of sort

Overall will be big, well done and keep it up!

Re: Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup

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Post by ay »

Jimega36 wrote: post #34

A fantastic simple idea. Video interaction is brilliant through gaming add-on. 3 comments: 1) Find a way to MAINTAIN gaming during the video (e.g. live comments adds of people in the room to the images?). That's because right now its fun to vote every 1:30minutes but then kind of boring to watch.. Althrough I stayed 3X more than initially planned ;-) This would allow maintaing people on site too since many people lef…

"POINTS" - how are they shown ? Chromium here, I do not see them...

Re: Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup

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Post by daralthus »

Jimega36 wrote: post #34

A fantastic simple idea. Video interaction is brilliant through gaming add-on. 3 comments: 1) Find a way to MAINTAIN gaming during the video (e.g. live comments adds of people in the room to the images?). That's because right now its fun to vote every 1:30minutes but then kind of boring to watch.. Althrough I stayed 3X more than initially planned ;-) This would allow maintaing people on site too since many people lef…

You could actually make the voting along the video, before it ends, so there will be no waiting between them and also people can play the whole time.

EDIT: Also, I would add the possibility to recommend a video to be next. It could be better then the automatic youtube recomends (do I think right it uses that?)

Re: Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup

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Post by dtby »

ay wrote: post #32

Fun! Here's an idea for you to consider for getting money out of it: display the two choices "coming up" and accept person betting either on one or the other. Don't show how many people placed a bet. When the choice is done - the part that won takes the bets of those who lost. If a draw - like "zero", the house takes all the bets and makes a random choice. "Make money while watching TV" - could be an appealing taglin…

Unfortunately, the cost of maintaining a gaming license in an appropriate jurisdiction is likely to outweigh the revenue stream from such an enterprise.

Re: Show HN: Launching my Realtime Social Video Startup

#39

Post by mrchess »

jiffylu wrote: post #14

Similar to http://www.synchtube.com/

I actually made synchtube -- thanks for the shout. Was thinking about putting in a voting mechanism eventually. Nice to see frozenhot implemented it.

Ironically I also did a Show HN today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344151) today as well but only got 1 point :(

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