Show HN: Denso - An Instapaper for Video

by stuti90 • 15 years ago

30 20 15 years ago

So I came across this really cool new service that works like Instapaper for video, and thought I'd share it with HN. Just got my invite today and I've been LOVING it so far. It lets me discover videos, bookmark them and watch offline on my iPad or iPhone. (My hour long subway rides without internet aren't painful anymore. Phew)

sidwyn• 15 years ago

Doesn't YouTube have a Watch Later button?

satyamag• 15 years ago

Yes they do, but Denso allows you to bookmark across a lot more sources and they also allow you to get your bookmarked videos onto any iOS device using a custom podcast.

devinfoley• 15 years ago

As does Vimeo.

sahillavingia• 15 years ago

Saw you guys when I was in Singapore. I think this could be pretty cool, it's definitely very pretty already.

iamclovin2• 15 years ago

Thanks Sahil, was it at Echelon? I wasn't there during the conference (my teammates were) but glad you like it :)

cleverjake• 15 years ago

Seems like there is a lot of competition in the field

http://www.google.com/search?q=instapaper+for+video

Good luck

samps2• 15 years ago

I think this a great idea, and I've recently noticed a number of people doing things in more or less the same direction. I've been collecting them:

* Deja http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deja/id417625158?mt=8&uo=...

* Squrl http://www.squrl.com/

* Plizy http://plizy.com/

* Showyou http://showyou.com/

* Roadshow http://fetchsoftworks.com/roadshow/

I even wrote a really simple way to actually use a folder called "Watch Later" in Instapaper as a video queue (only works for paying Instapaper subscribers): http://watchlater.radbox.org/ Mine focuses on trying to automatically discover HTML5-capable viewers for use on iOS.

Every one is slightly different, and this one looks particularly nice. Thanks for making it -- I look forward to trying it.

bravura• 15 years ago

Does this service, or any of the competitors, actually scrape the video (like pinboard.in does with bookmarks) so you can watch it later, even if the site is taken down?

That's something I would pay money for.

fox_• 15 years ago

I' m curious about that too.

samps2• 15 years ago

Roadshow (http://fetchsoftworks.com/roadshow/) lets you download videos to your device. I'm not sure if it's suitable for long-term storage like Pinboard is for web pages, but it might do what you want.

voidfiles3• 15 years ago

None of them support youtube.

pchristensen• 15 years ago

http://watchlaterapp.com can do it. You buy credits ($0.01/min) to download a cached copy (to an ipad, I think you can do web too), but as others have mentioned, not for YouTube.

iamclovin2• 15 years ago

Hey yes we do (including the Big You! ;)

We think we have an interesting twist on the way you can get videos on to your iOS devices.

We're working really hard polishing up the experience for the user right now, so we'll be sending out invite codes really soon. Thanks everyone for signing up.

joebadmo• 15 years ago

I used to use boxqueue with Boxee before I got an Apple TV 2 (which I don't use that much, as it turns out). http://boxqueue.appspot.com/

It's a bookmarklet that lets you save videos to watch later on Boxee. Which I liked because I could save videos to watch later on the tv from the couch.

It'd be nice if there were some way to get similar functionality on the ATV.

dolinsky2• 15 years ago

Watchlr looks to do the same and more. Gregory Schnese gave a really good presentation at the most recent NYTM event this past Tuesday. You can sign up at http://watchlr.com.

tommoor2• 15 years ago

seems to require facebook sign up though?

dolinsky2• 15 years ago

Yes, but it's the kind I can appreciate. Instead of a 'hey connect with facebook and then go through my signup process as well' he's using FBConnect as the authentication backend.

tommoor2• 15 years ago

Great video, explains the concept clearly.

Best of luck

voidfiles3• 15 years ago

These services have some serious barriers to entry. I created one of these, http://wacchen.com, I think it was the first. When you search for instapaper for video, the first 2 results mention my app. I am not actively maintaining my thing anymore because I realized there was going to be a hiccup in any wide adoption; Youtube. Youtube does not, and probably will never allow people to download that content. 80% of what most people bookmark are youtube videos. Sure some sites out there can be scrapped, but at best your business will be in murky territory. I wrote about this on my blog as well. http://alexkessinger.net/2010/11/15/why-instapaper-for-video...

Someone is going to crack this nut, but they will need to figure out the youtube problem.

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