Embedly (YC W10): A Call for Publishers

http://blog.embed.ly/call-for-publishers

by arthurgibson • 16 years ago

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talbina3• 16 years ago

Maybe you should use visuals to explain what embed.ly does.

paraschopra• 16 years ago

Exactly! A demo will also help.

screeley2• 16 years ago

Demos are now at the bottom of the post. Thanks

brandnewlow• 16 years ago

Need examples.

screeley2• 16 years ago

We added examples to the Post. Thanks.

talbina3• 16 years ago

Examples are good...but that wasn't necessarily the point.

Why can't you simply state this:

"Paste a link, and the original photo/video/tweet will be shown below it"

It took me 30 seconds to realize this when you gave the http://www.sharedy.com/ example.

How am I supposed to know if those are not "natural" embeds?

talbina3• 16 years ago

I'm sorry, I just saw your "links into embeds" branding. That should work. Thank you and sorry.

OoTheNigerian• 16 years ago

I still don't understand what it does. An animation that explains embedly will help you greatly.

arthurgibson4• 16 years ago

If you want a quick look, check out http://www.sharedy.com/ you will see most of the links turning into embeds.

Also if you post a link there, say from youtube or funnyordie it will also turn into an embed.

ericz• 16 years ago

Wow thats pretty cool. The sharedy.com example is particularly compelling. This really advances link sharing a step. It would be awesome to have something like this preview links in emails, IM's etc. Nice work

RyanMcGreal• 16 years ago

>the Washington Post and Funny Or Die

I bet the Washington Post just loves being lumped in with Funny Or Die as a content producer. :)

arthurgibson4• 16 years ago

Definitely contrasting content, we were trying to convey the broadness of our service.

nopal• 16 years ago

I haven't used oEmbed before, but I really like that it's possible to specify a max height or max width. That's not anything that Embedly's bringing to the table, it's just nice.

I do really like the idea of only having to call one service in order to get the embed code for a multitude of content.

What's the monetization plan? X free calls per month, $ after that? The only reason I'd be wary of using this service is that it could move to a model like that in the future, and I'd be locked in. Although, for the lack of up-front development time to integrate easily-embeddable content, it might be worth it.

arthurgibson4• 16 years ago

You can use the embedly api right now, the only thing we ask is if you call us server side to provide a valid user agent. Heres the docs, http://api.embed.ly/documentation and if you want to promote your site we'll put it up on our developers page.

Embedly (YC W10): A Call for Publishers

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