Ask HN: Review my site Skuttlefish - rate videos second by second
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Hah. Cool.
Few niggles:
* The slider only rates when you "click" - as in, I assumed I could drag the slider up/down as the video played and it'd rate it in real time. That'd be cool.
* Work on your homepage! Include: Search for YouTube Videos, Highest rated/Lowest rated videos. "Think of Skuttlefish as Dial Polls for online videos. " I don't know what this means, personally. I'd make the "What is Skuttlefish" text much larger and colourful, its a cool idea so make sure users know what they're doing the moment they look at the page.
* Make a logo. Make a bookmarklet so I can rate YouTube videos from Youtube.com
* When I explicitly click "Register" it takes me to the login window. Can you make it so you can login with your "name" or email?
Few niggles:
* The slider only rates when you "click" - as in, I assumed I could drag the slider up/down as the video played and it'd rate it in real time. That'd be cool.
* Work on your homepage! Include: Search for YouTube Videos, Highest rated/Lowest rated videos. "Think of Skuttlefish as Dial Polls for online videos. " I don't know what this means, personally. I'd make the "What is Skuttlefish" text much larger and colourful, its a cool idea so make sure users know what they're doing the moment they look at the page.
* Make a logo. Make a bookmarklet so I can rate YouTube videos from Youtube.com
* When I explicitly click "Register" it takes me to the login window. Can you make it so you can login with your "name" or email?
I hope that didnt come across as too harsh, I really think its a fantastic idea, and I think your execution is great - just a few TINY niggles! You've done 99.999% of the work!
oh no no that is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your comments I will add to them right away. Do you think it is a workable concept?
I think so! I think the trick is to allow users to use it from the youtube.com site -- make it really really easy to rate videos.
You almost want some form of bot that posts a comment on users video page if they're rated x times ("your video has been ranked on skuttlefish - the most popular part is y, and the least popular is z - rate this video here")
nice idea.
yeah it should do it when the slider stops, so if it starts at 0 and you move it to 5 and stop, then it should place a rating at 5. is this happening for you?
Skuttlefish was envisioned while watching CNN conduct those Dial Polls during the Presidential debates. Basically this very beta service will allow you to enter a video url (YouTube only for now) and rate the video as it is playing on a scale from 0 -> 10 for positive and 0 -> -10 for negative. We also store this information to provide historic data. If you bring up a video you can click on historic data points to be taken directly to a specific point in the video.
As I mentioned it is very beta, with lots of plans in the works for widgets, more video formats, comments, etc.
Let me know what you think.