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Show HN: Vittyo, Roll your own video store
- patrickaljord 16y agoNice, I like the simplicity.
- ivanzhao 16y agoThanks. We worked really really hard on that.
- csytan 16y agoHey HN, My co-founder and I have recently launched our project which lets people build stores to sell their streaming video content. We've been working on it for almost 5 months now. Let us know what you think! Sincerely, Chris & Ivan
- moe 16y agoTwo things: 1. Check your spelling. 2. Buffering...
- csytan 16y agoHey moe, I can't do anything about the buffering unfortunately, but could you link to the spelling error? Edit: thanks, Ivan fixed it a few minutes ago
- jlgosse 16y agoI found that it did little to no buffering when I tried the demo films. What kind of connection are you using?
- moe 16y agoThe conn should be fine but I'm in europe, perhaps that's the problem? I get frequent stutters on this video (which is otherwise great btw!): http://wizardsmoke.vittyo.com/videos/98401 http://wizardsmoke.vittyo.com/videos/98401
- csytan 16y agoWe're using Amazon Cloudfront so there should be an edge server in Europe, but maybe it takes awhile before it's distributed there. That being said, I've got a slower connection at home which can stutter on some of the HD stuff. It's a trade off on using RTMP; security vs the ability to buffer the entire video.
- saturdayplace 16y agoI love the idea, have thought about doing something similar in the past. It looks like all the stores are hosted as subdomains of vittyo.com. It would nice to run a vittyo store on my own domain.
- csytan 16y agoThanks, it's in the works :)
- chedigitz 16y agoLooks pretty cool, congrats! My main concern is how do you plan to compete with YouTube? They offer a rentals marketplace which may still be in beta. Also, they have serious money behind their technology for large scale streaming, and currently have a majority of the traffic in that space.
- ivanzhao 16y agojust like Vimeo, we are trying to target at the "indie" and more serious group of video makers than YouTube, by providing them lots more room of customization and personal branding. the focus is very different: Vimeo and YouTube are more like a hub, while we try to be a service.
- chedigitz 16y agoThanks! guys for helping me understand a lil bit more. We are currently in the YouTube Rentals program, may have to test it out and see how some of our content performs on your platform. Once we finish, off course. Keep coding!
- csytan 16y agoCool, let me know if you have any questions or feedback! csytan@gmail.com
- csytan 16y agoThanks, that's a good question. We are more targeted towards small-time content producers than the major movie production companies. Think mom and pop store selling custom bags vs Nike bags sold at Walmart. We run on Google Appengine & Amazon Cloudfront, so there shouldn't be any problem with scaling. We also use http://zencoder.com/ http://zencoder.com/ (ycombinator '10) for video encoding, and they've been great!
- jon_dahl 16y agoCongratulations! Love the design and the simplicity. What do you use for video encoding?
- wiredfutureman 16y agoNice one Chris & Ivan! Love the simplicity also.
- mr_twj 16y agoJust to make sure: can the customer download content, not just stream it? Thanks.
- ivanzhao 16y agoRight now it's only streaming, but the purchase will be recorded and the viewer can stream it as many times as she likes. It's easy to do the downloading option but less secure in terms of piracy issues.
- mr_twj 16y agoWhy not make it an option (for the content producer)? A lot of filmmakers generate income from stock footage on the side as well. You guys could undercut the stock footage monopoly. Just a thought from a prospective client. Thanks.
- csytan 16y agoThis is officially on the roadmap. Cheers :-)
- uurayan 16y agoWhat percentage of the sales are you guys taking or is there a monthly fee?