arathnam
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Co-Founder @ Kamcord
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Comment · 12 years ago
Yep, we were YC S12. Would love your feedback!
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks smit for liking the concept behind it :) Our goal with these videos is two-fold:
1. Share our experiences so that other early-stage startups can benefit from it.
2. Present our opinions on a variety of topics so that folks with a similar mindset might consider joining Kamcord and working on a lot of the exciting challenges we talk about.
Also, it doesn't take long to film. We just sat in a room and talked unscripted for a couple hours. Our awesome intern then pieced the best parts together.
Comment · 14 years ago
Yep, Call of Duty had a very successful YouTube integration (http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/07/youtube-google-io-your-ga...). And yeah, we totally agree that being able to share videos with friends will lead to greater engagement and help others discover cool games.
We have made this super simple for game devs - we have a startRecording and a stopRecording API. Round based games lend themselves well to starting recording at the beginning of the round and stopping at the end without bothering the user. So, the cocos2d calls don't have to be instrumented and replayed. Check out http://kamcord.com/documentation/ for the details.
Comment · 14 years ago
LUMOback is one of the most promising early-stage companies out there. Great technology that friends of mine with back problems have enjoyed beta testing and are more than happy to pay for. I'm personally most excited for when they might let others build apps on top of their sensor data. Solid hardware + platform play ala AAPL :)