Ask HN: Video recommendation platform as a way to compete with YouTube?
Content creators don't want to leave the platform because of discoverability. The audience doesn't want to leave because of content creators. People say that we should do decentralization like blogs in the past. However, it's hard to be discovered.
How about making a platform that crawls the internet for videos and build a recommendation algorithm. Therefore no matter where you host your videos you'll be easily discovered? This seems to fix the problem of discoverability while allowing decentralization or outright another platform to get traction.
EDIT : ghgr puts it nicely
> Interesting concept. So you propose to have a landing page
with a selection of videos tailored to the taste of the
visitor? And seamless combining results from YouTube, Vimeo
and others? You would be effectively relegating YouTube to a commoditized CDN for videos.
How about making a platform that crawls the internet for videos and build a recommendation algorithm. Therefore no matter where you host your videos you'll be easily discovered? This seems to fix the problem of discoverability while allowing decentralization or outright another platform to get traction.
EDIT : ghgr puts it nicely > Interesting concept. So you propose to have a landing page with a selection of videos tailored to the taste of the visitor? And seamless combining results from YouTube, Vimeo and others? You would be effectively relegating YouTube to a commoditized CDN for videos.