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Apply HN: Poor Man's Apple TV

Another jab at cheesy taglines a) Build your own Roku/AppleTv b) Democratizing Video publishing / Video Publishing for the masses c) Buzzword loaded - (Hyperlocal) Video publishing Infrastructure as a service

What is this about? I am building a system which will allow you to convert your Android phone into a VOD streaming device and serve it to people within 100 mts range without Internet. A system, that will allow anyone to provide on-demand content without any data cost to the end user.

What's the purpose? Imagine you are a <Business> willing to provide on-demand content for <Media Type> to <Target Users>.

So you can be a) An Airport, Shopping Mall, Train station, Hotel serving Entertainment & Movies to Travelers b) A College serving Educational content to Students/Professors c) A Coffee chain who also wants to entertain customers with Videos d) TV-rejected channel serving channel content in Trains, Coffee shops etc..

Bonus Edge case e) An user using it as a Settop box to cast available content (based on their subscription) to their TV;

Extreme Edge cases f) Shops pushing formatted content like catalogs, offers g) NGOs/Government using this to push regional content for awareness, education etc.., in remote areas with limited internet connectivity

Replace <Business>, <Media Type>, <Target User> with anything. Combinations and possibilities are endless. Whoever you are, you can easily publish content to users at your desired locations.

How to make money? 3 most common ways 1) Charge monthly subscription to Businesses for using VooWIN-S, charge $x per GB of content stored etc. 2) Add in-roll advertisements to content for more money, share a part with businesses/content creators 3) Create a matte-black sleek box and sell that to businesses as the Local server.

5 points das_vicky 10 years ago 4 comments

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