Explain turns Hackernews into a TV station πΊ
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Introducing hn.watch (powered by Explain β‘οΈ)
Itβs the HN feed, but with explainer videos instead of articles. We create them on-the-fly the first time someone clicks on a link. πβ‘οΈπΊπΏ
You can also join the discussion about it on hackernews #meta π
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879401 and here's it's explainer π https://hn.watch/?item=49879401
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Whoa! this is an interesting idea. I like the concept of videos being created automatically for text-heavy sites like Hacker News. Gives you a little preview at the get-go if it's worth your time to dive deeper into the text content. Very cool
@scottkorchinskiΒ thanks Scott! Yeah it got some pretty positive reactions even from the die-hard HN crowd - which surprised us TBH haha π . Watch this space cos we have a bunch of launches coming up to tv-ify popular forums. Btw have you tried Explain for yourself yet ? Itβs our text-to-explainer-video engine powering all this (Scrimba.com/explain)
@dnlbtlrΒ I could see it for sites like Wikipedia too tbh! Havenβt tried Explain yet but sounds interesting
@scottkorchinskiΒ you're gonna be happy to learn that's one on the launch pad :)
Turning Hacker News into a TV style feed is a pretty interesting idea especially for quickly catching the important stories without constantly refreshing the site curious how the ranking works in real time
@shivam_kushwaha16Β hey! it mimics HN's rankings syncing every 5 minutes.