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by MPetitt 11y ago
That's great to know, we love the feedback. And Don't Panic with Hans is one of my favorite personally ( https://app.curiositystream.com/video/999 )
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Definitely bandwidth, HD video is much larger and more difficult to stream than SD.
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by MPetitt 11y ago
You can subscribe to our blog's mailing list, we're going to start cross posting our tech posts and announcements through there as well. https://blog.curiositystream.com/
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Feel free to tour and preview our library https://app.curiositystream.com/
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Native chromecast support is something we have in the works, we agree that mirroring doesn't truly cut it. And we're currently in the process of brainstorming how we can build out more of a community to add more of a dialog to our
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Well we have tons of big budget and high quality pieces from producers like BBC, NHK, and stuff that's been on PBS. Feel free to check out and preview our library https://app.curiositystream.com/
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Definitely, the vast majority of our content is either exclusive, or only offered behind paywalls(most of which are more expensive than us). You can check out our library here https://app.curiositystream.com/
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We actually just pushed it out there recently, we just got our shield for testing and would love your feedback https://goo.gl/093zUZ
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We've had a ton of feedback on that and are working on changing that as soon as possible.
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We're currently working on it now. We use HLS for adaptive bitrate streaming which has practically no native browser support. Just recently some libraries started popping up which are able to utilize the new media source extensions to
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Anytime!
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Thats amazing to hear!
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We have been playing around with our encoding profiles to try to find a good balance, so some videos might have higher caps than others. Unfortunately a large amount of our users are still in areas with horrible connections, so we have focu
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Also if you haven't checked it out we wrote a whole post on how we tackled streaming from a tech perspective. https://medium.com/@CuriosityStream/how-to-roll-your-own-str...
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We've looked into it, but it works a lot better with live streams then on demand since the amount of people watching the same piece at the same time are pretty low. But we did just start experimenting with a product from Hola that does
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We actually have a wine piece we're going to be adding in the near future that we made in house that looks amazing. But if you haven't already checked it out we have a good bit on food to start. https://app.curiositystr
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We're working on ways to try to tailor and customize the browse page a bit more. If you're a member once you start watching some videos a recommended for you slide will be added to the home page based on your history. And thanks f
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Well although we are currently english only, we like to think of ourselves as an international service. We have tons of content focusing on other cultures and countries. Feel free to preview some of our content and let me know if anything s
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Well we definitely like to think we're a good deal, any ideas of how we might have been able to communicate our value better? And we just started a series on how to roll your own streaming service( https://medium.com/@Cu
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by MPetitt 11y ago
That's actually an AB test we have in the pipeline, hoping it seems more straightforward.
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We're currently working on new landing page variations. We were definitely planning on polishing it up but 1 and 2 are definitely great tips. Thanks!
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by MPetitt 11y ago
We're putting the finishing touches on Apple TV as we speak. And our Fire TV app is live! https://help.curiositystream.com/hc/en-us/articles/214497157...
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Well From our launch last year to 6 months ago it was just 2 of us. Now we've grown to 7 developers. We just started writing a series on how we did it. https://medium.com/p/4e8d9f7308cd
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Hey everyone, I'm one of the developers at CuriosityStream. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys have about streaming technology or the industry.
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Show HN: CuriosityStream – Netflix for non-fiction(curiositystream.com)
129 points by MPetitt 11y ago|113 comments
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by MPetitt 11y ago
Hey everyone, I'm the author of the article and one of the developers at CuriosityStream. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys have about streaming technology or the industry.
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How to roll your own streaming service(medium.com)
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Darpa Robotics Challenge Live Stream(live.curiositystream.com)
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by MPetitt 12y ago
VideoBlocks - Reston Virginia Full-Time Backend Web Developer We are looking for multiple backend web developers to help us launch exciting new projects. Our stack is PHP but we love language agnostic Devs who are willing to learn. We prefe
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by MPetitt 12y ago
I don't thing I completely agree with the "role-model" effect you are describing. There are women like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace

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