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Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.
- adityagada 16y agonow a Facebook application on YouTube Instant : http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/ http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/
- callvj 16y agoCheck out Youtube-Links.com you will enjoy it! :)
- lovskogen 16y agoI typed in "marissa mayer laugh".
- nhebb 16y agoI tried that. I only got as far as "marissa " and didn't really feel a need to go further. (Note the trailing space)
- robbirob 16y agoI see.
- houseabsolute 16y agoJesus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSujceZDmg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSujceZDmg
- dchs 16y agoListening to that makes me feel a bit sick. To restore your faith in Marissa, here's a clip of her being serious: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg
- itblarg 16y agoHoly crap! Brilliant video edit.
- adityagada 16y agonow a Facebook application on YouTube Instant : http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/ http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/
- jrnkntl 16y agoIs it intentional that there's no timeline / 'skip to' possibility?
- Nervetattoo 16y agoMaybe not great for real uses as the top hit isn't always right, but I know of several parties where this on full screen would be an instant win at least.
- KevBurnsJr 16y agoWorks for "San Bruno"
- siri 16y agosuggestion for "monkey" was great
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- maxniederhofer 16y agoI like the serendipity of discovering stuff this way. The selection of videos is pretty good.
- stevejalim 16y agoCan you extend it to show other results below, too? Right now - as fun as it is - it seems more like YouTubeRoulette. (Yes, I'm in a pedantic mood today ;o) )
- india 16y agoWhy the shortened url? I thought HN had them banned for submissions. Full url: http://feross.net/instant/ http://feross.net/instant/
- adityagada 16y agonow a Facebook application on YouTube Instant : http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/ http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/
- RossM 16y agoSeems it's Facebook's shortening url, perhaps for tracking?
- mgummelt 16y agoI made it while working there. It was originally for the twitter exporter http://twitter.com/search#search?q=fb.me http://twitter.com/search#search?q=fb.me I don't know what else they're using it for now.
- noverloop 16y agoI like it, fastest way to find music videos that I have encountered ever.
- metamemetics 16y agoI like the minimal interface. This website is perfect. Your getting something unexpected stumbleupon style, but you are controlling the seed of randomness, making it more interactive and game like. The funnest thing is entering random letters\nonwords. For example "rowlz".
- adityagada 16y agonow a Facebook application on YouTube Instant : http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/ http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/
- leeskye 16y agoIt would be great if there was a stumble button that proceeded to next random video. I always thought there should be a stumble upon for video.
- shashashasha 16y agohave you seen nowmov.com?
- metamemetics 16y agoNow there is somebody with short hair playing guitar coming up everytime exact video search is "undefined" because he has a song called "undefined".... Glitch with "exact search"? It used to return different results last night like best match, but now seems to be literally searching "undefined" edit: whatever the change was, this guy is going to get a lot more hits now and the site isn't quite as funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNR6aEdwRNI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNR6aEdwRNI edit2: nvm it appears to be fixed now.
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- Entlin 16y agoWow, what a brilliant concept. Needs a keyboard shortcut for "give me another one with the same query", though. Then it would be both media bliss and a wonderful way to chill out.
- andrewparker 16y agoBy viewing the source code you can see that the author intends to add a "More Videos" features, but it's currently commented out. http://feross.net/instant/instant.js http://feross.net/instant/instant.js I'd personally recommend not finishing this "More Videos" feature. I think the simplicity of just 1 video per search is awesome and creates beautiful serendipity. But, I know such a suggestion is very subjective.
- feross 16y agoHi there Andrew, I'm the author. After reading the comments on HN and elsewhere, I'm surprised to see my hack being praised for it's simplicity. If I had more time last night, I would have implemented more features - I have a ton of ideas. I guess it's good that I didn't. It looks like simplicity won.
- what 16y agoSpeed it up by not going through your server to get the query suggestions. You can drop the jsonp parameter and just eval the results. Or change the jsonp parameter and include it as a script tag.
- feross 16y agoI'm now doing everything client-side using JQuery and <script> tags to get around cross-domain XHR limitations. Now Google can't block it. :)
- djb_hackernews 16y agoThey can block by referer, of which your domain is. Though I doubt they would.
- redcap 16y agoFeature request: a way to get to the original video so I can share it. Got an awesome video for "doctor who", but I can't find it on youtube.com
- dreadlabs 16y agoClick the Youtube watermark on the right bottom corner of the video. :)
- citricsquid 16y agoclick the "youtube" logo on the bottom right
- roc 16y agoRather than a link to the current video, I'd like to see a list of history. E.g. how do I get to what I saw two videos back? I started typing "drum video", saw something interesting as an intermediate result as I was typing, but as it processed more of my query, it had jumped to a new video before i could click. Granted, I just retyped my query letter by letter to find what i was looking for ("dru"). But I don't know if a fixed query always bringing back a single result or if that's desired functionality vs limitation vs bug.
- vaksel 16y agoneeds video controls also maybe some way to skip to the next video
- adityagada 16y agonow a Facebook application on YouTube Instant : http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/ http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/
- roc 16y agoAt the very least, click to play/pause and a volume slider.
- timc 16y agowell done! +1 for a button to go to next video
- al_james 16y agoCool. Would be better if it had a list of thumbnails to choose a different video.
- lovskogen 16y agoThat would break the minimalissimo.
- tibbon 16y agoI'd love to see every 5th response Rick Roll the user, but that's just me.
- justinxreese 16y agoThis is incredible
- baby 16y agoBookmarked. Nice project.
- adityagada 16y agonow a Facebook application on YouTube Instant : http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/ http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/
- mattmcegg 16y agoawesome! as some have suggested..."next video" would be nice, and the title and description so i know what im watching.
- rokhayakebe 16y agoFreaking awesome. Simply said, awesome.
- abless 16y agoNice idea. However, for me it's currently too slow to be really usable (sorry!). Just goes to show how amazing Google Instant is, I think.
- ximeng 16y agoEndless youtube is another nice youtube hack. Just put endless before the youtube part of the URL, e.g. http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg becomes http://endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg http://endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg It repeats the video, or a portion of it, and has a neat inline search facility.
- Pyrodogg 16y agoSame strategy with http://youtuberepeat.com http://youtuberepeat.com but you just get the repeating video, not all of the other stuff around the edges.
- KeithMajhor 16y agoAwesome. I love the single video. In my opinion, instant is far more useful here than it is for regular search. If only it were faster...
- DannoHung 16y agoYou should have the text field do autocompletion if you hit tab
- gregory80 16y agodoesn't work at all on mac 10.6 with chrome 7 (dev channel)
- wccrawford 16y agoMac 10.6 Chrome 6 beta, working here.
- feross 16y agoThe site went down earlier because Youtube blocked my server. I rewrote the site to use client-side JS so it should work for you now.
- gregory80 16y agocool, seems to be working now, though I get a click hiccup on first page load, no video or text, but the search box pretty cool app.
- mikecane 16y agoI don't know what I'm supposed to see or what it's supposed to do. I use Opera (just got the update this AM). I don't get Google Instant, either.
- koevet 16y agoApparently he got a job offer from YouTube: http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/10/youtube-instant-job/ http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/10/youtube-instant-job/
- DougBTX 16y agoBefore this article even dropped off the front page, impressive.
- imran 16y agoawesome feross!
- cmelbye 16y agoWow, that's great. More useful than Google Instant, in my opinion.
- ary 16y agoKudos. This is great. The only thing I'd like to see is a row of, say 5, related videos just in case the first isn't exactly what I want.
- lovskogen 16y agoThen use YouTube.com
- adityagada 16y agonow a Facebook application on YouTube Instant : http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/ http://apps.facebook.com/ytinstant/
- jjcm 16y agoDown right now, any mirror?
- lovskogen 16y ago…and there the minimalism went away. Tweet-links and Facebook-Likes galore. Sad.
- lostbit 16y agoStrangely enough (certainly just a coincidence), but the words "mov" (lead suggestion moives) and "drumm" (which leads to drummer boy) took me to the exactly same wild west view...
- yosho 16y agois it just me or is there no sound?
- paradox95 16y agoHere is my version of YouTube Instant. http://travisbeauvais.com/yt http://travisbeauvais.com/yt
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- charlyms 16y agoHow do you do it,please help me built similar stuffs,I am in Silicon Valley.Email me to charlyms21@gmail.com I am looking for like minded individuals who would like to change the world!
- Ghassan 16y agoanybody has the instant.js file? the link for it does not seem to be working anymore: http://feross.net/instant/instant.js http://feross.net/instant/instant.js ?? thnx
- Greg_House 16y agoSomeone that study computer science or something like that and told me what is the big deal about this , what is the special thing about,? it is the backend algorithm ? maybe this have porcion of I.A or Genetic Algorithm or Probabilitys metrics?? I dont know. to me this is just make a request using ajax to the db youtube and search for the most relevant search recently made (maybe 1 hour o 15 minutes i dont know) 3 hours or less look a pretty razonable time to do this,.. but maybe i'm wrong about my conception, somebody could please give an explanation about this? what's the big deal ????