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blog.sproutvideo.com 13y ago

Quick and dirty custom video player using SproutVideo and jQuery

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blog.sproutvideo.com 13y ago

How to make videos fit in responsive layouts

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resolutions.sproutvideo.com 13y ago

Win a free year of video hosting

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: SF over NYC?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: How should I deal with a clone of my site?

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blog.sproutvideo.com 14y ago

The API I've been working on for the last 596 days is now live

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gigaom2.files.wordpress.com 14y ago

Class-action complaint against Kissmetrics and others for use of Flash LSO [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

AMA HN: I launched my profitable startup one year ago today.

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sproutvideotech.posterous.com 15y ago

Signing an Adobe AIR application with a startssl.com certificate

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: How do you deal with working from home alone? / NYC Startup Lunch Club

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podman.posterous.com 15y ago

Signing an Adobe AIR application with a startssl.com certificate

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: I'm meeting with a potential investor. What questions should I ask him?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Tell/Ask HN: Starting a Groupon-type site for web services

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Considering quitting my day job to work on my startups

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Tell HN: Personalized streaming video workouts (my second start-up)

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Tell HN: Launched my first real start-up (Commerical video hosting)

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: How to charge for a white-label web app?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: iPhone Video Geo-data

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Best site to buy business cards?

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www.boostcam.com 17y ago

Ask HN: Review my latest web app - BoostCam

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SproutVideo • Brooklyn, NY • Onsite/Full-Time • https://sproutvideo.com/

SproutVideo is hiring a Head of Customer Support: https://sproutvideo.com/jobs

Requirements:

  - Able to work full time in our office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
  - Can quickly master highly technical processes and our video hosting platform
  - Familiarity with live chat and support email platforms; phone experience a plus
  - 3+ years of SAAS customer success experience
  - Must be an excellent multi-tasker with a keen eye for detail and getting things right the first time
  - Ability to maintain a polite, calm, and positive attitude in all interactions with our customers even in stressful situations
  - Excellent writing skills and a strong command of English grammar; able to adopt the SproutVideo voice
Check out our jobs page for information about how to apply.

SproutVideo founder here. We actually introduced an import tool for DailyMotion Cloud users to easily import their videos into a SproutVideo account. DailyMotion Cloud was a product of DailyMotion. DailyMotion Cloud is shutting down on April 12th. DailyMotion has offered to migrate their users to their main platform but that puts several serious restrictions on content such as:

  *  Distribution of your video catalog on Dailymotion.com
  *  Monetization of your video catalog
  *  Compliance with our content moderation rules
For many users, this is simply not a viable solution. SproutVideo offers a very comparable platform and we've already had several former DailyMotion Cloud users import their content. Companies can have very large video libraries and migrating to a new video hosting platform can be a lot of work. To that end, we created a tool that will allow former DailyMotion Cloud users automatically import their libraries into a SproutVideo account. Hopefully that clears things up a bit! http://sproutvideo.com/dailymotion

I think the usefulness of a SSG really depends on your goals. If your goal is simply to publish a blog, perhaps a SSG is not the right solution for you. SSGs are interesting because they have zero external dependences. I can just deploy my blog to Amazon S3, use CloudFront if I so choose, and never have to worry about scalability or how much traffic my blog can handle. To me, that is more important than the perceived friction that it takes to get a post online.

Although Alibaba is a huge company that does a ton of different things, I feel like this article went out of the way to avoid mentioning that companies like Google and Amazon (as well as Microsoft and Apple to a lesser extent) come close to checking all of these boxes. The other thing to point out is that Alibaba owns stakes in many of these companies and doesn't really own them outright.

As others have already pointed out how Google compares, take Amazon for instance:

Online Payments - Amazon Payments

Cloud Services - Amazon Web Services

Mobile Apps - Amazon AppStore

Mobile OS - Amazon FireOS

Maps and Navigation - Amazon Maps API

Retail Outlets - N/A

Group Buying - Amazon Local

Cloud Storage - Amazon CloudDrive / Amazon S3

Mobile Messaging - N/A

Car Service, Ride Sharing - N/A

C2C e-commerice - Amazon Services/Amazon WebStore (not quite the same, but close)

Online Travel Booking - N/A

B2C e-commerce - Amazon.com

E-Learning - http://www.tenmarks.com/ (owned by Amazon)

Microblogging - N/A

Music Streaming - Amazon Cloud Player

Streaming Video - Amazon Prime Instant Streaming

Money-market funds - N/A

12/18 isn't bad.

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If chess can make it to the front page with a vague title, why not darts?

Absolutely. This was just meant as an example to show what is possible with the API for the SproutVideo player and not a definitive guide on how to make a fully formed player. Many things would need to be done differently for this to be a fully-formed UI that works just as well on mobile devices as desktops.

NYC, Full Time.

SproutVideo, a fast-growing video hosting company, is looking for a Head of Marketing. Are you looking to get in on the ground-floor of a fast-growing startup with tons of potential? Are you looking to shape a marketing strategy from scratch and be handsomely rewarded with significant equity? If so, check out our listing here: http://sproutvideo.com/jobs

Broken is pretty subjective here and greatly depends on one's needs as far as the ACID principles are concerned. If durability is your primary concern then maybe MongoDB isn't for you. That doesn't mean it's broken. It might perfectly meet the needs of others. I guess it should also be noted that the author works on HyperDex (a competing data store).

Just to be clear, the prizes are account credit for 12, 6, and 3 months of the Tree Plan on SproutVideo. So, you'd get $600, $300, or $150 worth of account credit, respectively, if you were to win. Overages still apply. I had this in the title originally but it looks like the moderators edited it out.

It's relevant as many here are entrepreneurs. There is a very good lesson here about proper social media etiquette for companies. There are an incredible multitude of ways this situation could have been handled better, especially on a forum as public as Twitter.

Awesome. I'm planning on going out to visit friends the first week of September. Should help me get a sense of the city before my lease is up so I can make a slightly more informed decision.

Thanks for this reply. That was sort of the vision I had of the tech scene so I'm glad that I wan't too far from the truth. I'm not a big fan of hyper-competitive people so that's a plus. Hopefully the community out there is more, well, "communal" and tries to help everyone succeed.

Hiring in NYC is also very difficult at least from my experience from working for other startups here. Finding qualified candidates who aren't already happily employed is difficult.

I've actually heard the opposite from some friends about the necessity of a car out there. I guess that will really just come down to how I spend my time and where I need to travel.

My startup isn't unique and has a bunch of competition already so that really doesn't bother me too much. Bring it on! (Ok, maybe I'm a little competitive...)

I think I see the difference being that NYC is very big and tech is a very very small part of what's going on here. SF, on the other hand, is relatively small and tech is a very large part of what's going on there.

Now I could be very wrong about this, but I feel like if you're out in SF and you meet people it's somewhat likely they might be in tech where as in in NYC it's very unlikely. In NYC, you have to go out of your way to find those kinds of people, possibly going to tech events which, in my experience, sometimes feel like you're going on a blind date.

Now it's possible that I just don't know the right people in NYC, but from what I've heard from friends I have in SF, it seems like you're just more likely to run into tech people making it easier to make the right kinds of connections.

My company has business for over two years and is profitable. I'm not just a guy with a laptop and an idea. I'm just not happy with the kinds of connections I'm making in NYC nor the speed at which my company is growing. Both of these could obviously be linked to me and not my city, but I think it's worth finding out.

I like snow. I generally dislike cold if there isn't any snow. I grew up in New York so I'm used to it.