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by devmonk 5743 days ago
Why not convert it into a community-powered video translation site (and possibly add subtitling capabilities- allow users to enter text to display at bottom)? Also, why not market the kids and teenagers that want to do MST3000-like overdubbing? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000 )

You might have trouble getting people to pay for it, but maybe you could convert to a non-profit if the goal was to provide tools to help the blind, the deaf, or to translate important works.

A big problem I see with the site now is that there is nothing on the front page that says what it does. You can't expect it to be content driven before people understand what it is or why they should be adding content. Also, how and where were you marketing it? Web apps aren't like the game from the the movie "Field of Dreams". If you build it, people only come if they know that their work will not be wasted. You should have the app say that it will reupload the edited video to Youtube, Vimeo, etc., and that its purpose is just simple Saas video editing for translation (and perhaps subtitling).

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Oh, thanks about this one. And yeah, definitely, I should put somewhere telling what it does.
As a user, it seems that the main purpose of this site is to consume videos posted by someone. The "Cast now" button tells me nothing. I hope I don't appear too negative, but I think you have missed a lot of potential users. It's little that tells me that this is something other than "break.com" for games.
oh? really? Thanks about this one, I never thought about it but you raised a good point. Thanks!