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Snapchat meets YouTube. Bite-sized vertical videos you'll 💕

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Snapchat meets YouTube. Bite-sized vertical videos you'll 💕

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Maker

Hello PH! We are building an app for watching short videos on your phone. This is an early beta of our app. It accidentally got released when apple featured us on the appstore. We would love to take your feedback on how to make this better.

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10yr ago

@mfroushdy how are you planning to differentiate is it just the vertical videos? Will that not be a disadvantage since there are many landscape videos! I am just trying to understand

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10yr ago

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Maker

@kausmukherjee true, I think the main problem is that most videos are landscape and they are long format. We are experimenting with ways to have people be excited about converting videos that are made to be watched on a laptop into a format that works better on your phone while you are on the go. The next update should have some pretty interesting things.

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

Just downloaded the app. As expected based on Swipe's last app, it's buttery smooth and sticky. @mfroushdy where are you sourcing the videos? Being vertical, you're missing out on most (landscape) videos that are available on the web. That's also what makes this unique and arguably where video consumption is going (see @ow's article in TNW) cc'ing @gregisenberg the founder of another video app, 5by (RIP)

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10yr ago

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Maker

@rrhoover @ow @gregisenberg thanks Ryan! people post the videos by importing them from other websites.

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

@mfroushdy np -- updated! Btw, what happened to Swipe?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@rrhoover Swipe was really fun, but it was hard for us to be different. We wanted to build a product that is more impactful on the long run and does not depend on having friends on the app for people to have a good time.

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10yr ago

Tribe Games

Had a chance to try the product while beta (thanks team). Really interesting approach (Snapchat consumption mode with internet videos) + love the UI/UX

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10yr ago

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Maker

@cyrilpaglino I'm glad you like it! You guys are killing it with @heytribe

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10yr ago

Dive

@mfroushdy Like 2 hours ago this comment introduced me to @heytribe and I've been using it for about an hour now and have successfully gotten over 15 friends to download. What a crazy cool product. @cyrilpaglino I sent your video responses about differentiating from Snapchat to two different groups of people and they all loved it. Well done.

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10yr ago

You know how some apps are just fun to USE? This is one of those. It's just a purely pleasurable experience to interact with. I really dig the focus on the actual content instead of the algorithm, if that makes sense. This is basically perfect for idly infusing myself with great stuff from around the internet. Just a hundred versions of cool. Can't wait to see where they go with Channel!

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5yr ago

US Layoffs Explorer

I love the content focused fresh design. I'd love to be able to share GIFs of videos right from the app - that would be yuge.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@pseudovirtual haha! We will see what we can do!

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10yr ago

@mfroushdy ♡ Love the perfectly positioned copy for this perfectly irreverent app on iStore page ala "This app sucks. Trust us , it's very sucks. You won't be able to stay away from your phone. Sorry (not sorry)." - Genius. Well done copy writer - and hey "app bad not " - very nicely concept/exec

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10yr ago

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Maker

@skywalker haha thanks! This was all our designer edwin!

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10yr ago

@mfroushdy buy your designer a beer - they deserve it for copy alone ;)

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10yr ago