[stenuto]

As a longtime user of Vimeo (since 2009), I was afraid this was going to happen. I built our own HLS video streaming in-house a couple of years ago and never looked back. Way faster, lightweight player, uses modern apis and codecs.

Now I'm working on productizing that at https://framerate.com/ (beta launches next week!)

[sammularczyk]

There's another Vimeo alternative at https://framerate.tv - not sure which came first!

[switchstance]

We did. https://framerate.tv

[stenuto]

Looking good! Completely different products though.

[Kye]

What is it? The page is vague to the point of uselessness.

[cadamsdotcom]

Nice work. Aren’t there decent open source alternatives though? What do you think your differentiation will be vs. a customer using an open source solution and hosting the video chunks on a CDN - or even S3?

[stenuto]

Thank you!

There aren't any end-to-end open source video host solutions out there from what I can tell. DIY ffmpeg + a CDN is a great way to go. But quickly erodes when you want all the other niceties that are table-stakes today (like storyboards, subtitles, chapters, etc.).

I'll have all the niceties, but I plan to differentiate mainly on performance and quality.

- Higher quality compression (via AV1 encoding) - Fast load times worldwide (Framerate's custom player is 18kb gzipped versus 200kb+ for vidstack/mux) - Better publishing experience (bulk editing options, team collaboration, etc.)

[cadamsdotcom]

Sounds good. I’d suggest niching down and talking to some customers to see who genuinely cares about those things - as they might turn out (tragically I know) to be things only techies care about.

Fair warning.. when we hear talk to customers we are tempted to reply “I talked to customer in my mind and they love my thing!”

But unfortunately customers in our minds don’t have money :)

There’re either customers out there, or if not there's learning about why youtube has almost 100% market share..

Wishing you genuine luck and success!

[stenuto]

Yup, good points! Thank you. I'm building a pretty generic tool for now and hoping a couple of niche use cases surface here soon.

[thomastraum]

I quite like this. I am your customer possibly. will bookmark

[cadamsdotcom]

Sorry to say but that doesn’t sound very hopeful.

You need a customer my friend.

[mannyv]

Building video streaming is easy. Selling video streaming is difficult.

[aarondf]

damn framerate looks good