Stupeflix To Help Create The Next Instragram, Vine
forbes.com
forbes.com
There is a French band called Stupeflip. Briefly, I believed this was going to be about them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaAHMztNVE
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.
[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.
I think the promotional/brand/agency experiences is a really big market in need of ways to quickly build and deploy apps.
Our main product, the video creation API, differs from Animoto API in a zillion ways that can be summed up by flexibility. Also, access is $30/mo, instead of I believe $30k upfront - OH, not public.
Then the 15 new APIs covered in the Forbes article are completely new and do not exist at Animoto or anywhere else as an ensemble of web services. Things like extrating a frame from video, detecting faces in photos, stabilizing videos, detecting beat in music. Our goal is to address the broader spectrum of developers and offer a complete toolkit of services to quickly build apps that process UGC.
Some of the new services exist as standalone APIs from some great folks like encoding.com zencoder.com (transcode), cloudinary imgix (photo serving), lambda labs (face detection), neospeech (TTS).