Show HN: Eclips – Pinterest for Video

https://www.ecli.ps

by danm07 • 11 years ago

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danm075• 11 years ago

Hi!

My name is Dan. This is my first submission so forgive me if I'm awkward. A couple of friends and I are building an app for students (and other awesome people) so they can save segments of any video they find on the internet.

We're really excited about the implications for search because instead of searching for whole videos, people can search for parts of videos that other people have personally curated. If I may, it's sort of like Google's crawler being able to read the text on the webpage rather than just the meta-tags. It's a much more powerful way to find interesting content.

Anyway, it's in private beta at the moment, but there is a video tutorial. Any feedback is super appreciated!

kevindeasis2• 11 years ago

Hi Dan. I got a question, most people watch video on youtube, so I usually just save it in my playlist or "watch later". What features will you add in the future to make me use what you are offering?

That app in beta sounds really amazing. I was thinking about that kind of problem before in one of the classes that I was enrolled in. One thing i find interesting is that how will you do this cheaply? Since searching segments of a video will be really expensive from what I recall.

danm075• 11 years ago

Hi Kevin! Excellent questions. "watch later" is a great feature, I use it mostly for shorter videos. The analogy of a bookmark versus a reading list comes to mind. The clipping feature allows you to save segments of videos, rather than whole ones. The other way we hope to differentiate ourselves in the near future by allowing you to clip anywhere on the internet, with any video platform, not just YouTube.

Not sure if you got a chance to checkout the video tutorial, but the idea is the video segments are parsed by keywords made by users, rather than video/audio recognition technology. Each segment of video is like a document with keywords, meta-data, etc. so we just run our search algorithm through that, and it's pretty standard from then on.

sidcool• 11 years ago

I like the app. Good UI/UX, nice features. Thanks for posting.

awjr• 11 years ago

Good luck with this! Really simple neat idea and one that YouTube or Pinterest should talk to you about.

danm075• 11 years ago

Thanks, hopefully some day soon!

beecup• 11 years ago

Very nice! What technology stack do you use for this project?

danm075• 11 years ago

MEAN stack.

pavornyoh• 11 years ago

I like it also. Pretty neat.

goddamnsteve• 11 years ago

Have been using it for quite sometime, and I love it. Great job Dan. Wish you got some more press.

danm075• 11 years ago

That's very kind of you. And I so wish too!

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