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I really like the idea. And the design is very nice (be it for the site or the app) One thing though is that, from the site, I'm not really sure what I would g

I really like the idea. And the design is very nice (be it for the site or the app) One thing though is that, from the site, I'm not really sure what I would get and in what form: where are the videos? are you hosting them? how do I change the settings of the app? do I get some kind of video album? I see that the demo file left a couple of videos in my Movies folder, so I get it: I pay $99 to have the custom software with the right names and date, and it saves everything as local files in my Movies folder. But, in that case, $99 is a lot of money! Correct me if I'm wrong but it's a one-time use app, right? I only get that one customized version for one wedding? That feels very very expensive… it's a nice packaging for PhotoBooth pretty much. And yes, for a wedding, that packaging makes a big difference, but I don't think I could buy it myself. That being said, as Brian Cooley said, $99 is a drop in the bucket for most weddings, so I think that you could make some money with that (as I said, for a wedding the packaging is very important, thus the money will follow). edit: to sum up, I'd say that it's a nice idea but to justify the $99 I think it would need to actually produce some kind of "video guestbook", something similar to an iMovie template, or what Animoto does. After the event, I just get a bunch of video files that I need to do something with…

Timothee 17y ago
Let me add some comments on the interface: (based on the demo app) - the names on the image looks super badly compressed, you might want to make sure the image looks super clean and sharp - I found the buttons kind of confusing while recording: "Review", "Re-do", "I'm done!". The first time, I clicked "I'm done" to stop the recording… and ended up at the beginning, not being able to review what I did. I would put only "Stop" while recording, with automatic preview afterwards and then "Re-do" and "I'm done!" (or "Save" to make it even clearer) - add a Cancel button actually. - the countdown tended to skip "2" - make the cursor a pointer when it's hovering buttons - I'd make the "Recording" state more obvious. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the recording starts with "… oh it started!" Maybe a blinking red border around the video feed? The blinking "Recording" is a little faint to me, and it might be even more in a reception room.
c3o 17y ago
Regarding the Animoto proposal: You should look into the Stupeflix API (http://www.stupeflix.com/api http://www.stupeflix.com/api), which could easily automatically stitch the videos together into something that looks impressive. Let me know if you would like a personal intro to the Stupeflix guys.
- Timothee 17y ago
  One issue is that you can't always expect an Internet connection at a wedding. But interesting link nonetheless.
  - hillel 17y ago
    Right. That's why we made Thrilled for You as a client app that requires no internet connection. Internet is still so flakey... it's the last thing anyone should have to worry about.
    - c3o 17y ago
      True. I guess you could just do the conversion at some later date when the computer is online -- that would still free the couple from the burden of having to do any video editing themselves, but I suppose it would be a little tricky to build.

Timothee 17y ago

Let me add some comments on the interface: (based on the demo app) - the names on the image looks super badly compressed, you might want to make sure the image looks super clean and sharp - I found the buttons kind of confusing while recording: "Review", "Re-do", "I'm done!". The first time, I clicked "I'm done" to stop the recording… and ended up at the beginning, not being able to review what I did. I would put only "Stop" while recording, with automatic preview afterwards and then "Re-do" and "I'm done!" (or "Save" to make it even clearer) - add a Cancel button actually. - the countdown tended to skip "2" - make the cursor a pointer when it's hovering buttons - I'd make the "Recording" state more obvious. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the recording starts with "… oh it started!" Maybe a blinking red border around the video feed? The blinking "Recording" is a little faint to me, and it might be even more in a reception room.

c3o 17y ago

Regarding the Animoto proposal: You should look into the Stupeflix API (http://www.stupeflix.com/api http://www.stupeflix.com/api), which could easily automatically stitch the videos together into something that looks impressive. Let me know if you would like a personal intro to the Stupeflix guys.

Timothee 17y ago
One issue is that you can't always expect an Internet connection at a wedding. But interesting link nonetheless.
- hillel 17y ago
  Right. That's why we made Thrilled for You as a client app that requires no internet connection. Internet is still so flakey... it's the last thing anyone should have to worry about.
  - c3o 17y ago
    True. I guess you could just do the conversion at some later date when the computer is online -- that would still free the couple from the burden of having to do any video editing themselves, but I suppose it would be a little tricky to build.