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Ask HN: Should I continue spending time on this side project? Is it useful?
Since last three weeks I am spending my all free time on building website www.vileos.com. This was also part of learning web programming. I got at the point where I can share my work :). Do you guys think this is useful? something I should invest my time and money in? appreciate your feedback.
- devbe 13y agooh btw this is still work in progress. but its functional atleast :).
- newgen 13y agowhat happens when someone claims copyright ? Have you thought about it ? Have you got some sort of agreement for linking/picking videos ?
- devbe 13y agowhat I am doing is just embedding videos. isn't that ok?
- krapp 13y agoI'm working on a similar project (which I can't link to right now because pagodabox appears to have melted or something) but one of the things I look for is copyright and author meta tags and if I find them I always display them. Youtube and vimeo, etc. might not have that but if you're working through the APIs of these sites or scraping their pages, you might consider getting the author (or username) and description and adding a link to the original site in the view page, just to make it clear that this isn't your content. But to answer your question - sure, why not? If you have time, and it's not bankrupting you, maybe it can turn into something. And if not, you can always open source it.
- devbe 13y agothanks for detail response :). Yea I am planning to add link to original video. I asked question to check if people find it useful or not. I guess I don't have anything to lose as far as I am learning by spending $10/month for Azure. and yes I can always open source it later.
- krapp 13y agoI might find it useful if I were able to, say, build playlists from multiple sites or something.
- will_brown 13y agoI think any time you concentrate media from several services into a single service it is useful. One suggestion, create a way for a single user to create a one stop shop for their various video services. i.e. PersonX can register and link their accounts from YouTube, Vine, Vimeo ect...so if I search for PersonX I would be able to visit all their videos in one place.
- devbe 13y agothanks for the suggestion!! yes personalization is very important. before that I wanted to create front page that shows few videos picked from various services on same page (based on some kind of ranking).