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by deckeraa 2100 days ago
Interesting to see this.

A couple months ago I launched a site (https://familymemorystream.com/) that allows annotating videos but is targeted towards the niche of converted family videos.

I was considering opening it up to make a generic "video note taker" version; it looks like you beat me to it :) Best wishes! It will be interesting to see where you end up with the pricing model. It looks like you're using YouTube/Vimeo for the video hosting so that frees you up to do one-time purchases if you want since your server costs will likely stay fairly constant across scale.

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that looks great. Yeah, I'm still figuring out the business model. I think a one time purchase is probably what I'm going to do. BTW, after launching it in Product Hunt I saw a few similar ideas too :)
One of my users pointed out that it would be nice to have a fully off-line capable app. There are a couple barriers to this:

- It would require users to have a p2p system set up to get the video onto their system, which is a configuration barrier for most users.

- It's not clear what the monetization strategy would be to fund the development of the app.

- It would require a large amount of device storage to hold the videos.

But if someone were able to figure those out, they might be able to differentiate from the similar products.

offline would be great, but yeah... I think that is going to be hard and expensive, like you said
You could probably sell subscriptions to you-tubers who want to annotate videos on their channels. I am sure they would find a way to do cool things with it.
yeah, I think I'll make a list of a couple YouTube channels I like and reach to them