Show HN: Record your screen, share and instantly know when people watch
viewedit.com
viewedit.com
"you retain all of your ownership rights in your content however you hereby grant Vidyard and its affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable, license to use, reproduce, perform, distribute, and display such content. Furthermore, you grant Vidyard, its affiliates, and sublicensees the right to use your name and/or user name in connection with the content."
Similar to what Facebook, Twitter, etc have done in the past.
Still, they need to fix that if their business model really isn't to resell your screen-shared content.
If I'm creating a video, I don't want the people I'm sending it to to feel like I'm getting marketing data from them (assuming I'm not).
As the viewer, you can't opt-out of analytics. The analytics are only identifiable as you (the viewer) if the recorder sends you the video through gmail as ViewedIt will append your email as a query string param to the ViewedIt link. If shared through social media, you'll still send analytics back so that the recorder knows how many views their video got, but you as the viewer won't be identified in those views.
1) The terms of service are kinda scary. If I amass a large library of awesome videos you guys can turn off your servers and walk away like it's no big deal and you guys own the videos I make.
2) It seems as though you are doing everything you can to avoid users from embeding videos and want users to visit viewedit.com instead. Will this change?
I would think embedding little video snippets in a web page, interspersed with prose, would be the killer presentation use case. Instead, the product promotes itself to center stage, above the content itself.
Edit: This does not bring up a prompt to send the video.
I like the design though. Looks pretty slick.
What's the target use case?
Also, good point on the Chrome Extension messaging, will fix.
We have a couple customers using the full-fledged Vidyard platform for running training courses, excited to see how this screen recording tech gets adopted by them!
Seems to me that it would be easier to cover UI/UX in video format than screenshots and pictures. I'm by no means an expert in that area though.
Is ViewedIt really free?
Yes! We believe in the power of video creation and storytelling and want to give it to everyone.
That single click to gmail is bae.
- Can I download the video?
- Can I automatically share it on youtube?
- Some basic editing functionality would be awesome.
ViewedIt runs on Vidyard's platform which supports all those features for paying accounts.
The user tracking would help with ensuring that our userbase actually watched our policy videos too. Love it.
At this point, download isn't supported. It's something we may do in the future, but for now the hope is that the built in sharing makes download obsolete. Would love to hear areas where DL is important - feedback[at]viewedit[dot]com
Thanks!
Just in general: Murphy's law. At the worst possible time, the ISP will be down, the wifi adapter will drop its connection, you'll exceed your data plan, or you'll be at the customer's place who's weird about outside machines on their network.
"Stuff happens". More options are always better, even if you hope you never have to use them.