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Growing SocialCam Is The Latest Alum Startup Returning To YC
- ldayley 15y agoThis seems in line with YC's expressed desire to 'kill Hollywood'. Keeping peoples' attention off of Hollywood-owned content is the first step.
- peterhunt 15y agoSorry, I don't think that videos filmed with Socialcam are going to compete with big-budget Hollywood flicks. Socialcam is much more about telling your own personal story and recording your life, not entertainment.
- ldayley 15y agoOf course SocialCam isn't designed for people to create movies to compete head on with Hollywood-- that's a rediculous statement and not what I intended to convey above. However, one can only focus attention on one thing at a time, so when you are filming snippets or watching snippets created by friends then that is time that you aren't, for the sake of arguement, watching Hollywood-produced content on a phone or tablet.
- dlevine 15y agoWhy did SocialCam split off from JustinTV? Did JustinTV turn into TwitchTV and then divest SocialCam since it wasn't directly related to the direction the company was going in?
- emmett 15y agoThat's pretty much the reason, yes. Justin.tv and TwitchTV are very similar, both technically and in terms of UI. Socialcam, while related, doesn't really share so much. It made more sense as a separate company.