Ask HN: Video recommendation platform as a way to compete with YouTube?

Post by uniqueid » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 2:26 AM UTC

anderspitman wrote: post #55

We definitely need to decouple discovery from hosting. I'm not even sure you would need to do any crawling. Maybe you could just let people submit links to videos hosted elsewhere. Kind of like you can submit any URL to the Internet Archive. But in this case you would use the frequency of duplicate submissions (along with in-house upvotes) to build out a recommendation platform.

Post by powerapple » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 10:22 AM UTC

Post by zihotki » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 1:11 PM UTC

XCSme wrote: post #61

vemv wrote: post #12

I like going on Youtube and see what gets recommended to me, sometimes I discover useful/entertaining stuff that way. But most times, the recommendations tend to be terrible: - repetitive, as if they insisted in the same specific video dozens of times - not using the full breadth of a given channel I've subscribed to, e.g. just recommending a few videos out of 100s - recommending stuff that has absolutely nothing to…

I think their recommendations are really, really good. To help the system you can click "not interested" to recommendations that you don't like, and you can also click the bell next to subscribe to get always get recommended and notifications for the creators you like. Usually if I don't like the recommendations on the front page I just refresh, I get different ones. Recommandations are hard because even for you, as…