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The Owen Wilson Wow API

396 points by gaws 5y ago

_samjarman 5y ago
Things like this just make me so happy.
ameminator 5y ago
All I can say is... Wow!
Arch485 5y ago
Wow
ehaughee 5y ago
I...I love it...
masaav 5y ago
Wow.
qtXJ9EM 5y ago
Wow
freediver 5y ago
Why?
- devinegan 5y ago
  Wow
- eggsmediumrare 5y ago
  This is a better use of technology than leeching money out of venture capital by trading tokenized assets on shitty blockchain #3428
- rendall 5y ago
  The correct question is: why not?
todsacerdoti 5y ago
Who is going to build the Twitter bot first? https://pipedream.com/apps/owen-wilson https://pipedream.com/apps/owen-wilson
dgrin91 5y ago
Wow I think that this api also needs some HATEOS-style self-reference url so that when I click on random I know how to get back to that Also there needs to be a way to get the next wow in a movie. How do I go from the 3rd Wow in Cars to the 4th?
deleted 5y ago
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OJFord 5y ago
Is this 'just' an insane amount of manual effort? I'm not particularly up on ML, but suspected it at first partly just because 'insane amount of manual effort', but also because many seem clipped too short. But the repo makes it seem very much just like a manual clip collection; acknowledges a 'listicle' of Wilson 'wow' films with 'wow' counts (slight reduction in novel manual effort.. but no timestamps).
- recuter 5y ago
  A true fan would have all of his films downloaded including the closed captions.
  - jerrysievert 5y ago
    As someone who needs closed captioning at this point in their life, but can still understand most things, let me tell you how bad closed captioning is. I would not rely on cc to be more than 65% accurate.
    - recuter 5y ago
      I am sorry and surprised to hear that. I would think especially now it wouldn't be too hard to auto generate a good portion. My experience is very limited but sometimes people ask me to turn on subtitles and they are usually perfectly fine, even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate?
      - jerrysievert 5y ago
        > even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate these typically are the best available, but not always quite right. the cc provided by wgbh are usually pretty good as well, but they are mission focused on delivering good closed captioning - it's just that not everyone wants to use them (or they can't schedule? not sure) unfortunately, once you leave those two, it's a craps shoot as to whether they make sense or truly convey the message that the audio is conveying. some of them seem to go by what I'm guessing is the original script, which can be fairly close in meaning to what they're saying, others are just a mish-mash of words that are misspelled and don't necessarily convey the meaning that the audio is trying to. the worst is live sports, which really don't have to be: I've been to conferences that were extremely inclusive and have had real-time (remote) closed captioning - seeing how good those can be make me shake my head in wonder when I see the typical sports closed captioning. eek. I'm stuck in the middle where I can still hear and interpret most words, so have a lot of incongruence when I am relying on both the cc and the audio when they don't match.
mynegation 5y ago
Fun fact: Dream Theater inserted an inconspicuous sample of Owen Wilson’s “wow” in their song “S2N”.
rohfle 5y ago
https://rohfle.github.io/wow/ https://rohfle.github.io/wow/ a quick and dirty ytmnd-like loop using videos from https://owen-wilson-wow-api.herokuapp.com/wows/random?results=10 https://owen-wilson-wow-api.herokuapp.com/wows/random?result...
- 867-5309 5y ago
  or, if you prefer, a concatenation of all the videos listed by this API in chronological order: https://youtu.be/yW2gKsiCYtw https://youtu.be/yW2gKsiCYtw
Flankk 5y ago
I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power you're using here. It didn't require any discipline to attain it. You know, you read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourself, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could before you even knew what you had.
- jrootabega 5y ago
  Must wow faster.
  - wantoncl 5y ago
    Wow...finds a way.
- rendall 5y ago
  You packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it, you want to sell it.
mbg721 5y ago
There ought to be a Christopher Walken version; it would cover about an octave and a half.
- yesthisiswes 5y ago
  - mbg721 5y ago
    I appreciate your service.
pkulak 5y ago
The Slack/Matrix bot ideas are paralyzing me with choice right now...
Helloyello 5y ago
layer8 5y ago
There should be an HTTP status WOW to return in response to stupefying requests.
- bayindirh 5y ago
  We have "I'm a teapot"[0] already? [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418
  - layer8 5y ago
    Different range of use cases, and different vibe.
davidhariri 5y ago
wow
dylan604 5y ago
"The Owen Wilson Wow API is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Owen Wilson, or any of his subsidiaries or affiliates." That's just sad. Interjecting myself into a movie star's position, but if someone made a site like this based on my work in a fun light hearted manner like this, I'd endorse it. It's only an ignored request or a polite no response away, or a full endorsement. You just gotta ask (assuming there was no ask and this is just a boiler plate CYA bit of text).
- amamenko 5y ago
  Honestly, an endorsement by Owen Wilson would be amazing. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know how to reach him even if I wanted to. If anyone has any way for me to personally reach out to Owen Wilson, though, that would be dope.
  - sam1r 5y ago
    Why not tweet at him while it’s hot on hacker news?
    - amamenko 5y ago
      I don't even think he has a Twitter account. I found this, though: https://www.thehandbook.com/celebrity/owen-wilson/ https://www.thehandbook.com/celebrity/owen-wilson/, worth a shot
soperj 5y ago
Got one where the video didn't work properly: [{"movie":"The Big Year","year":2011,"release_date":"2011-10-14","director":"David Frankel","character":"Kenny Bostick","movie_duration":"01:43:09","timestamp":"01:08:23","full_line":"Wow, and here I thought I was the bomb at 728.","current_wow_in_movie":3,"total_wows_in_movie":3,"poster":"https://images.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/pCjGOhbTCQVjLRN9zTwIi/ce7cdf4b40f3549326d881697aa468a1/The_Big_Year_Poster.jpg","video":{"1080p":"https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/uOdKu6VANHZjtwZXeBU8M/bf1f0f44c7bc01faa648a1b97b1205d3/The_Big_Year_Wow_3_1080p.mp4","720p":"https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/y9wR96fHZaNnZr367mjyI/1262c2af0400cb1dc8528c3c8e6a83a4/The_Big_Year_Wow_3_720p.mp4","480p":"https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/55z94kbUxNFIL0rYb1i2mH/ca0505ca5e2017b663f18cca8af571b2/The_Big_Year_Wow_3_480p.mp4","360p":"https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/6moRL0SzmkTGzgEuZeVByI/c63fa33d0992c0594ecbaed4fcd7e891/The_Big_Year_Wow_3_360p.mp4"},"audio":"https://assets.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/1dXEYZQP1Fl6CX1roy7ZAH/f31b90a6f961dcc16c16b294f4faf664/The_Big_Year_Wow_3.mp3" https://images.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/pCjGOhbTCQVjLRN9zT...}]
- amamenko 5y ago
  Hmm, seems to work fine for me. Which video dimensions didn't work for you, 1080p, 720p, 480p, or 360p?
JamesLeonis 5y ago
Missed opportunity to call it a WOWPI - Wow Owen Wilson Programming Interface
jonahx 5y ago
Just out of curiosity: Does something like this fall under fair use because the clips are short? At what point would it not? Say this site became viral and was making money off ads? Would it become a copyright violation at that point?
- tomatowurst 5y ago
  depends on Owen's agent. think it will be a bad look if he did go after it. also tough to make money off ads these days
  - stjohnswarts 5y ago
    there were ads?
- mgbmtl 5y ago
  I'm no expert, but one often cited source is the "neither quantitatively nor qualitatively significant" argument from the Beastie Boys lawsuit. It could be equivalent to reaction GIFs. Although using Owen's name in a commercial service name would probably not be a good idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  I think it falls under parody? especially since no money is being made on it.
rocauc 5y ago
Wonderful - and welcomed sequel to the Chuck Norris facts API: https://api.chucknorris.io/ https://api.chucknorris.io/
- amamenko 5y ago
  Yes! I obviously took a lot of the general front-end design and CSS formatting from the Chuck Norris API - that's why I credited it in the GitHub repo!
manesioz 5y ago
This is hilarious
tholman 5y ago
As a wow amazed individual I had made this guess the wow to the movie game a couple of years back [1] ... this would have made that work a whole lot easier than the painstakingly slow sourcing I had done :D [1] http://wowenwilsonquiz.com/ http://wowenwilsonquiz.com/
- amamenko 5y ago
  I found your quiz while I was building the Wow API and I did pretty well! Can't imagine why...
dvdsgl 5y ago
An app you can clone: https://owen-wow.glideapp.io/ https://owen-wow.glideapp.io/
sixstringtheory 5y ago
Someone should make a celebrity soundboard of this where all the buttons just say "Wow"
wodenokoto 5y ago
A bit off topic, but: What’s a funny test api that allows put requests? I have a personal cheat sheet that I refer to when I need to make JSON/REST api request using base Python or Curl, since I don’t do this enough to actually remember how. Right now my examples pull chuck norris quotes, but it would be nice to have examples that aren’t just `get` in my tool box.
- itake 5y ago
  There are "curl builders" that provide UI for dummies like myself to create a curl cmd and then you can use a "curl to {golang|ruby|python}" [0] to generate code from the curl. [0] - https://curlconverter.com/ https://curlconverter.com/
- easrng 5y ago
  Not funny, but httpbin.org/<verb> does the trick
parentheses 5y ago
This feels very Gen Z Mafia. Cool work
khazhoux 5y ago
I have a few qualms with this API: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and copying all the Owen Wilson "Wow" audio (.ogg) files. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive full of Owen Wilson "Wow" clips. Most people I know e-mail "Wow"s to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to listen to them, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue. 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
- bertman 5y ago
  I read this twice just to be sure. Well done :)
- mehulkar 5y ago
  art
- charcircuit 5y ago
  1. This API is convenient since it already exists and you don't have to find all of the clips yourself. 2. This API will likely be used by websites / bots hosted in some data center and not on your local machine. Also it would be possible to cache the video / audio locally. 3. I agree that as just an API it's not really something that can go viral. Something built on top of it could be. I also agree that it would be hard to generate income since most users probably only want to use it for a short amount of time as a joke. I think it is intended to just be a fun API that others can use.
  - mikeyjk 5y ago
    You are responding to a satirical comment, riffing on the 'hacker news famous' comment that was criticising Dropbox during its infancy.
    - 5y ago
mothsonasloth 5y ago
I was expecting a "wow" in Behind Enemy Lines, but there is none apparently. Then again it was Wilson's first serious movie.
benzoate 5y ago
I made a rudimentary iOS Shortcut that will get one of these and let you send it to either iMessage or WhatsApp. Go nuts: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a49a1e9e05844a16a98a41cad93c6ff7 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a49a1e9e05844a16a98a41cad93...
867-5309 5y ago
concatenation of all the videos listed by this API in chronological order: https://youtu.be/yW2gKsiCYtw https://youtu.be/yW2gKsiCYtw
szundi 5y ago
I like these projects very much haha
seanhunter 5y ago
It's pretty cool but like what's your business model here? I don't think you've really thought this through properly. What you probably want is a free-tier "wow" level (like 1 wow per week or something), a "Personal" tier (more wows + you can do some but not all the api calls), and finaly "Enterprise tier" (all you can eat wows + sso).
black_13 5y ago
FinalBriefing 5y ago
Fun! I'm going to use this for data in a prototype I'm working on. This one is cut too short: https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/NiRJbAgDb0L7VWsUfavhf/58c90628eaf4ac7283b77a42523655c8/The_Haunting_Wow_2_1080p.mp4 https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/NiRJbAgDb0L7VWsUfa... I've found a few more that are also cut a little short.
moondev 5y ago
Is there a collection of "whimsical" projects like this? The terraform provider for ordering dominos pizza also comes to mind.
mitchel0022 5y ago
Turned it into a discord bot in about 3 hours or so of fighting Heroku, big hit in our server https://github.com/MitchelPaulin/OwenWilsonBot https://github.com/MitchelPaulin/OwenWilsonBot

396 points by gaws 5y ago

_samjarman 5y ago

Things like this just make me so happy.

ameminator 5y ago

All I can say is... Wow!

Arch485 5y ago

Wow

ehaughee 5y ago

I...I love it...

masaav 5y ago

Wow.

qtXJ9EM 5y ago

Wow

freediver 5y ago

Why?

devinegan 5y ago
Wow
eggsmediumrare 5y ago
This is a better use of technology than leeching money out of venture capital by trading tokenized assets on shitty blockchain #3428
rendall 5y ago
The correct question is: why not?

todsacerdoti 5y ago

Who is going to build the Twitter bot first? https://pipedream.com/apps/owen-wilson https://pipedream.com/apps/owen-wilson

dgrin91 5y ago

Wow I think that this api also needs some HATEOS-style self-reference url so that when I click on random I know how to get back to that Also there needs to be a way to get the next wow in a movie. How do I go from the 3rd Wow in Cars to the 4th?

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

OJFord 5y ago

Is this 'just' an insane amount of manual effort? I'm not particularly up on ML, but suspected it at first partly just because 'insane amount of manual effort', but also because many seem clipped too short. But the repo makes it seem very much just like a manual clip collection; acknowledges a 'listicle' of Wilson 'wow' films with 'wow' counts (slight reduction in novel manual effort.. but no timestamps).

recuter 5y ago
A true fan would have all of his films downloaded including the closed captions.
- jerrysievert 5y ago
  As someone who needs closed captioning at this point in their life, but can still understand most things, let me tell you how bad closed captioning is. I would not rely on cc to be more than 65% accurate.
  - recuter 5y ago
    I am sorry and surprised to hear that. I would think especially now it wouldn't be too hard to auto generate a good portion. My experience is very limited but sometimes people ask me to turn on subtitles and they are usually perfectly fine, even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate?
    - jerrysievert 5y ago
      > even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate these typically are the best available, but not always quite right. the cc provided by wgbh are usually pretty good as well, but they are mission focused on delivering good closed captioning - it's just that not everyone wants to use them (or they can't schedule? not sure) unfortunately, once you leave those two, it's a craps shoot as to whether they make sense or truly convey the message that the audio is conveying. some of them seem to go by what I'm guessing is the original script, which can be fairly close in meaning to what they're saying, others are just a mish-mash of words that are misspelled and don't necessarily convey the meaning that the audio is trying to. the worst is live sports, which really don't have to be: I've been to conferences that were extremely inclusive and have had real-time (remote) closed captioning - seeing how good those can be make me shake my head in wonder when I see the typical sports closed captioning. eek. I'm stuck in the middle where I can still hear and interpret most words, so have a lot of incongruence when I am relying on both the cc and the audio when they don't match.

mynegation 5y ago

Fun fact: Dream Theater inserted an inconspicuous sample of Owen Wilson’s “wow” in their song “S2N”.

rohfle 5y ago

https://rohfle.github.io/wow/ https://rohfle.github.io/wow/ a quick and dirty ytmnd-like loop using videos from https://owen-wilson-wow-api.herokuapp.com/wows/random?results=10 https://owen-wilson-wow-api.herokuapp.com/wows/random?result...

867-5309 5y ago
or, if you prefer, a concatenation of all the videos listed by this API in chronological order: https://youtu.be/yW2gKsiCYtw https://youtu.be/yW2gKsiCYtw

Flankk 5y ago

I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power you're using here. It didn't require any discipline to attain it. You know, you read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourself, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could before you even knew what you had.

jrootabega 5y ago
Must wow faster.
- wantoncl 5y ago
  Wow...finds a way.
rendall 5y ago
You packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it, you want to sell it.

mbg721 5y ago

There ought to be a Christopher Walken version; it would cover about an octave and a half.

yesthisiswes 5y ago
- mbg721 5y ago
  I appreciate your service.

pkulak 5y ago

The Slack/Matrix bot ideas are paralyzing me with choice right now...

Helloyello 5y ago

layer8 5y ago

There should be an HTTP status WOW to return in response to stupefying requests.

bayindirh 5y ago
We have "I'm a teapot"[0] already? [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418
- layer8 5y ago
  Different range of use cases, and different vibe.

davidhariri 5y ago

wow

dylan604 5y ago

"The Owen Wilson Wow API is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Owen Wilson, or any of his subsidiaries or affiliates." That's just sad. Interjecting myself into a movie star's position, but if someone made a site like this based on my work in a fun light hearted manner like this, I'd endorse it. It's only an ignored request or a polite no response away, or a full endorsement. You just gotta ask (assuming there was no ask and this is just a boiler plate CYA bit of text).

amamenko 5y ago
Honestly, an endorsement by Owen Wilson would be amazing. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know how to reach him even if I wanted to. If anyone has any way for me to personally reach out to Owen Wilson, though, that would be dope.
- sam1r 5y ago
  Why not tweet at him while it’s hot on hacker news?
  - amamenko 5y ago
    I don't even think he has a Twitter account. I found this, though: https://www.thehandbook.com/celebrity/owen-wilson/ https://www.thehandbook.com/celebrity/owen-wilson/, worth a shot

soperj 5y ago

Got one where the video didn't work properly: [{"movie":"The Big Year","year":2011,"release_date":"2011-10-14","director":"David Frankel","character":"Kenny Bostick","movie_duration":"01:43:09","timestamp":"01:08:23","full_line":"Wow, and here I thought I was the bomb at 728.","current_wow_in_movie":3,"total_wows_in_movie":3,"poster":"https://images.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/pCjGOhbTCQVjLRN9zTwIi/ce7cdf4b40f3549326d881697aa468a1/The_Big_Year_Poster.jpg","video":{"1080p":"https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/uOdKu6VANHZjtwZXeBU8M/bf1f0f44c7bc01faa648a1b97b1205d3/The_Big_Year_Wow_3_1080p.mp4","720p":"https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/y9wR96fHZaNnZr367mjyI/1262c2af0400cb1dc8528c3c8e6a83a4/The_Big_Year_Wow_3_720p.mp4","480p":"https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/55z94kbUxNFIL0rYb1i2mH/ca0505ca5e2017b663f18cca8af571b2/The_Big_Year_Wow_3_480p.mp4","360p":"https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/6moRL0SzmkTGzgEuZeVByI/c63fa33d0992c0594ecbaed4fcd7e891/The_Big_Year_Wow_3_360p.mp4"},"audio":"https://assets.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/1dXEYZQP1Fl6CX1roy7ZAH/f31b90a6f961dcc16c16b294f4faf664/The_Big_Year_Wow_3.mp3" https://images.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/pCjGOhbTCQVjLRN9zT...}]

amamenko 5y ago
Hmm, seems to work fine for me. Which video dimensions didn't work for you, 1080p, 720p, 480p, or 360p?

JamesLeonis 5y ago

Missed opportunity to call it a WOWPI - Wow Owen Wilson Programming Interface

jonahx 5y ago

Just out of curiosity: Does something like this fall under fair use because the clips are short? At what point would it not? Say this site became viral and was making money off ads? Would it become a copyright violation at that point?

tomatowurst 5y ago
depends on Owen's agent. think it will be a bad look if he did go after it. also tough to make money off ads these days
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  there were ads?
mgbmtl 5y ago
I'm no expert, but one often cited source is the "neither quantitatively nor qualitatively significant" argument from the Beastie Boys lawsuit. It could be equivalent to reaction GIFs. Although using Owen's name in a commercial service name would probably not be a good idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys
stjohnswarts 5y ago
I think it falls under parody? especially since no money is being made on it.

rocauc 5y ago

Wonderful - and welcomed sequel to the Chuck Norris facts API: https://api.chucknorris.io/ https://api.chucknorris.io/

amamenko 5y ago
Yes! I obviously took a lot of the general front-end design and CSS formatting from the Chuck Norris API - that's why I credited it in the GitHub repo!

manesioz 5y ago

This is hilarious

tholman 5y ago

As a wow amazed individual I had made this guess the wow to the movie game a couple of years back [1] ... this would have made that work a whole lot easier than the painstakingly slow sourcing I had done :D [1] http://wowenwilsonquiz.com/ http://wowenwilsonquiz.com/

amamenko 5y ago
I found your quiz while I was building the Wow API and I did pretty well! Can't imagine why...

dvdsgl 5y ago

An app you can clone: https://owen-wow.glideapp.io/ https://owen-wow.glideapp.io/

sixstringtheory 5y ago

Someone should make a celebrity soundboard of this where all the buttons just say "Wow"

wodenokoto 5y ago

A bit off topic, but: What’s a funny test api that allows put requests? I have a personal cheat sheet that I refer to when I need to make JSON/REST api request using base Python or Curl, since I don’t do this enough to actually remember how. Right now my examples pull chuck norris quotes, but it would be nice to have examples that aren’t just `get` in my tool box.

itake 5y ago
There are "curl builders" that provide UI for dummies like myself to create a curl cmd and then you can use a "curl to {golang|ruby|python}" [0] to generate code from the curl. [0] - https://curlconverter.com/ https://curlconverter.com/
easrng 5y ago
Not funny, but httpbin.org/<verb> does the trick

parentheses 5y ago

This feels very Gen Z Mafia. Cool work

khazhoux 5y ago

I have a few qualms with this API: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and copying all the Owen Wilson "Wow" audio (.ogg) files. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive full of Owen Wilson "Wow" clips. Most people I know e-mail "Wow"s to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to listen to them, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue. 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

bertman 5y ago
I read this twice just to be sure. Well done :)
mehulkar 5y ago
art
charcircuit 5y ago
1. This API is convenient since it already exists and you don't have to find all of the clips yourself. 2. This API will likely be used by websites / bots hosted in some data center and not on your local machine. Also it would be possible to cache the video / audio locally. 3. I agree that as just an API it's not really something that can go viral. Something built on top of it could be. I also agree that it would be hard to generate income since most users probably only want to use it for a short amount of time as a joke. I think it is intended to just be a fun API that others can use.
- mikeyjk 5y ago
  You are responding to a satirical comment, riffing on the 'hacker news famous' comment that was criticising Dropbox during its infancy.
  - 5y ago

mothsonasloth 5y ago

I was expecting a "wow" in Behind Enemy Lines, but there is none apparently. Then again it was Wilson's first serious movie.

benzoate 5y ago

I made a rudimentary iOS Shortcut that will get one of these and let you send it to either iMessage or WhatsApp. Go nuts: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a49a1e9e05844a16a98a41cad93c6ff7 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a49a1e9e05844a16a98a41cad93...

867-5309 5y ago

concatenation of all the videos listed by this API in chronological order: https://youtu.be/yW2gKsiCYtw https://youtu.be/yW2gKsiCYtw

szundi 5y ago

I like these projects very much haha

seanhunter 5y ago

It's pretty cool but like what's your business model here? I don't think you've really thought this through properly. What you probably want is a free-tier "wow" level (like 1 wow per week or something), a "Personal" tier (more wows + you can do some but not all the api calls), and finaly "Enterprise tier" (all you can eat wows + sso).

black_13 5y ago

FinalBriefing 5y ago

Fun! I'm going to use this for data in a prototype I'm working on. This one is cut too short: https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/NiRJbAgDb0L7VWsUfavhf/58c90628eaf4ac7283b77a42523655c8/The_Haunting_Wow_2_1080p.mp4 https://videos.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/NiRJbAgDb0L7VWsUfa... I've found a few more that are also cut a little short.

moondev 5y ago

Is there a collection of "whimsical" projects like this? The terraform provider for ordering dominos pizza also comes to mind.

mitchel0022 5y ago

Turned it into a discord bot in about 3 hours or so of fighting Heroku, big hit in our server https://github.com/MitchelPaulin/OwenWilsonBot https://github.com/MitchelPaulin/OwenWilsonBot