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Show HN: Mootu.be - a cleaner way to view YouTube videos
- hsuresh 14y agoLooks clean. Can you add title/description of the video being played?
- jetcom 14y agoThanks! Yeah, so the title should appear by default on the video page (with the option to remove it), and I did have the description toggleable at one point but chose to remove it. I'll add in the option to display it.
- hussfelt 14y agoQ: Why not just reuse the hash from Youtube like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mpaPBCBjSVc http://youtube.com/watch?v=mpaPBCBjSVc Would become: mootu.be/v/mpaPBCBjSVc This way it would be even easier to share content fast through mootu.be... Anyway, neat service. Will be sure to try it out!
- supremazy 14y agoAnd you can teach to users just put the "mootu.be/v/" instead of "http://youtube.com/watch?v= http://youtube.com/watch?v= " beginning of the url.And please put the contact form into the mootu.be ok I really didn't understand why weren't you put it.
- jetcom 14y agoThis is an excellent suggestion and something that I had actually implemented in my original version. After using it for a little bit, however, I wasn't a big fan of the long, garbled URLs. I wanted the URLs to be as clean as the site itself. But maybe I should add that functionality back in. Thanks!
- hussfelt 14y agoI think it's neat. People know what it is when they see it and I think your service might be even more useable... It would be extremely simple to build plugins around your service as well, because the only thing you need is your URL - then appending any Video ID... Nice work!
- laundrysheet1 14y agoYou should consider building a Chrome extension or something of that sort for other browsers to redirect to your site for each video on YouTube.com. Cause it can be a real hassle to copy and paste between tabs.
- jetcom 14y agoInteresting idea. Might have to incorporate it into the next release of the Mootu.be Chrome extension.