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Review my startup - Airfeed

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Post by anteksiler » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 12:50 PM UTC

Review my startup - Airfeed
airfeed.me

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#2

Post by anteksiler » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 1:02 PM UTC

Let me explain it this way.

"TV experience for your Facebook videos"

Your news feed videos are automatically fetched and organized. You just need to turn on "auto play" and turn into fullscreen mode :)

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#3

Post by notphilatall » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 1:19 PM UTC

It's a cool project, but I wouldn't necessarily call it a start-up. How will you monetize while depending on FB? Is this currently a pain-point for people, to the point that they would pay money for it?

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Post by TelmoMenezes » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 1:24 PM UTC

Nice idea. I would pay a reasonable fee for something like this, given a few changes:

- Having it based on YouTube / Vimeo, not FB

- I wouldn't care about my friend's feeds to be honest, but I would love to be able to watch channels created by people with similar interests, on a specific topic and so on...

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Post by anteksiler » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 1:27 PM UTC

notphilatall wrote: post #3

It's a cool project, but I wouldn't necessarily call it a start-up. How will you monetize while depending on FB? Is this currently a pain-point for people, to the point that they would pay money for it?

I guess you are right, we are not planning on profiting from this at first.

Its a pain point for some, since I see lots of people scrolling through their news feed to find a video they watched before or just to kill time.

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Post by anteksiler » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 1:28 PM UTC

TelmoMenezes wrote: post #4

Nice idea. I would pay a reasonable fee for something like this, given a few changes: - Having it based on YouTube / Vimeo, not FB - I wouldn't care about my friend's feeds to be honest, but I would love to be able to watch channels created by people with similar interests, on a specific topic and so on...

Thanks for the replies.

We are actually working on a categorization/tagging feature.

Re: Review my startup - Airfeed

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Post by calinet6 » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 1:29 PM UTC

It's cool, I just don't think my Facebook friends have very good taste.

"We don’t know what you like, but your friends do" isn't really true for me. I don't friend people on Facebook because of their great taste in youtube clips, I friend them because I know them in the real world where stuff like that doesn't really matter. Maybe you could add some other avenues of relevance, like connecting you to other Airfeed users' feeds directly based on similarity of videos you've posted to your own feed.

I like that you pull in videos from pages I've liked, that adds a lot of relevance, nice.

It's a bit slow obviously but I'll give you a pass on that. On a related note, I do have to mention that the "your videos are being fetched, please come back in a few minutes" is a bit of a showstopper. At that point I'm liable to say "screw this" and close the tab and never return. It should 1) auto-refresh when ready, and 2) give them a reason to stay, either a fun animation or a small random video from their feed they can "play now" or some instant gratification. I'm sure you know this already, in which case, good job, keep on developing.

Also I agree with another commenter—no need to call everything a "startup" just because it's the hot word around here. It's a web app. Great start.

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Post by joshka » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 1:38 PM UTC

requires my email address - sorry nope.

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Post by lucaspiller » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 1:41 PM UTC

calinet6 wrote: post #7

It's cool, I just don't think my Facebook friends have very good taste. "We don’t know what you like, but your friends do" isn't really true for me. I don't friend people on Facebook because of their great taste in youtube clips, I friend them because I know them in the real world where stuff like that doesn't really matter. Maybe you could add some other avenues of relevance, like connecting you to other Airfeed use…

> "We don’t know what you like, but your friends do" isn't really true for me.

A lot of things are behaving like this for me. When Netflix was first released here only myself and a few close friends had it, and we all have similar tastes. Now everybody seems to (go Netflix!), and so my recommendations really aren't relavent to me at all... It also didn't help that I set it up on the PS3 and my housemates watch nothing but Top Gear on it.

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Post by anteksiler » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 1:44 PM UTC

calinet6 wrote: post #7

It's cool, I just don't think my Facebook friends have very good taste. "We don’t know what you like, but your friends do" isn't really true for me. I don't friend people on Facebook because of their great taste in youtube clips, I friend them because I know them in the real world where stuff like that doesn't really matter. Maybe you could add some other avenues of relevance, like connecting you to other Airfeed use…

Thanks to both of the top commenters. Like I said, this is alpha version, so take it easy on me :)

Thanks for the feedback, and this is really helping me, great feedback, thanks! :)