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Congrats on the launch. I'm the founder of a photo/video service and aside from some initial up front investment in processing of photos (done entirely by us)
by jmathai 13y ago
Congrats on the launch.
I'm the founder of a photo/video service and aside from some initial up front investment in processing of photos (done entirely by us) and videos (mostly done by AWS) the vast majority of time is building the features around the already processed media.
I think this could be useful for a service which isn't that interested in the media itself but wants to put together something pretty quickly. But if the media is your livelihood I don't see it as such a fit.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought based on the video that I would have been a target customer.
- jeffboudier 13y agoThanks jmathai, [I'm the OP & guy in the video] The 15 new APIs are a suite of specific services to quickly transcode, resize, slice & dice all kinds of media assets. They're meant to quickly build UI features around UGC media for web & mobile apps. Yes: if media asset management is the core value proposition, these services may be used to rapidly prototype and test new features, rather than build the core product. We do however have customers in the photo sharing space. The majority of them are either starting apps, or building UX quickly - for instance we've powered promotional experiences for all kinds of large brands (Coke, Visa, Samsung, Nike) e.g. jordan.com/liftoff Our core product is the video creation API: send a XML description of the composition of a video, it renders a video file. The video messaging was more mass media than HN.
- jmathai 13y agoThanks for the response. I'll have a deeper look at the APIs. There might be something in there that's useful to us. I think the promotional/brand/agency experiences is a really big market in need of ways to quickly build and deploy apps.