[chedigitz]

Looks pretty cool, congrats!

My main concern is how do you plan to compete with YouTube? They offer a rentals marketplace which may still be in beta. Also, they have serious money behind their technology for large scale streaming, and currently have a majority of the traffic in that space.

[csytan]

Thanks, that's a good question.

We are more targeted towards small-time content producers than the major movie production companies. Think mom and pop store selling custom bags vs Nike bags sold at Walmart.

We run on Google Appengine & Amazon Cloudfront, so there shouldn't be any problem with scaling. We also use http://zencoder.com/ (ycombinator '10) for video encoding, and they've been great!

[ivanzhao]

just like Vimeo, we are trying to target at the "indie" and more serious group of video makers than YouTube, by providing them lots more room of customization and personal branding.

the focus is very different: Vimeo and YouTube are more like a hub, while we try to be a service.

[chedigitz]

Thanks! guys for helping me understand a lil bit more.

We are currently in the YouTube Rentals program, may have to test it out and see how some of our content performs on your platform. Once we finish, off course.

Keep coding!

[csytan]

Cool, let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

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