Annotate.tv
Productivity
video note taking
SHOW HN2020
154points
61comments
#387of 3,028 in 2020
Top 13%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 4 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Design: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice UI
From 1 comment
This has a nice UI, well done on launching! I made something similar but never really thought of monitising it. The focus was on the tagging/annotating for power users with…
cxam on HN
Useful tool with good potential
From 2 comments
This is a great tool. The one thing I need before I would start regularly using it: Hot keys Hot keys to: P0. Submit the notes (and start notes at a new timestamp) P0. Start…
ZainRiz on HNI love it. At the same time, I would never buy it unless I was somehow earning residual income by having it. SASS pricing not a good model for the average consumer due to the way…
rkhassen9 on HN
Objections
Subscription pricing is unattractive for average users
From 2 comments
I love it. At the same time, I would never buy it unless I was somehow earning residual income by having it. SASS pricing not a good model for the average consumer due to the way…
rkhassen9 on HNniiiiiiiiice... i think this is something that alot of schools could use since everything is going online. i'm going to echo @rkhassen9 observation that your pricing model isn't…
thrownaway954 on HN
Cancel button is too close to Create and can lose notes
From 1 comment
Feedback: The "Cancel" and "Create" buttons are too close to each other. If you accidentally click on the "Cancel" button you lose your entire note. Perhaps move the cancel…
proee on HN
Demo walkthrough blocks clicking through
From 1 comment
The "Use example video" walk-through does not permit simply clicking through the demo. On the "This is the section where you are going to write your annotations." div, when you…
mncharity on HN
Not usable on mobile; editor hidden below keyboard
From 1 comment
The wysiwyg is hidden below the keyboard on mobile. Which kind of defeats the purpose of being able to take time stamped notes.
pryelluw on HN
Requests
Vimeo support
From 1 comment
Any plans for a Vimeo equivalent?
scottmcdot on HN
Hotkeys
From 1 comment
This is a great tool. The one thing I need before I would start regularly using it: Hot keys Hot keys to: P0. Submit the notes (and start notes at a new timestamp) P0. Start…
ZainRiz on HN
Transcript pull from YouTube
From 1 comment
Would you be able to pull the transcript from YouTube for editing/commenting? That would be really useful for me. In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to…
fudged71 on HN
Sync notes to Roam Research
From 1 comment
Would you be able to pull the transcript from YouTube for editing/commenting? That would be really useful for me. In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to…
fudged71 on HN
Offline support
From 1 comment
One of my users pointed out that it would be nice to have a fully off-line capable app. There are a couple barriers to this: - It would require users to have a p2p system set up…
deckeraa on HN
Questions
How businesses would pay for the notes
From 1 comment
I'm trying to understand why businesses would pay for these notes. The only things that come to mind are research/AI purposes-- essentially having a dataset to feed into…
sciencewolf on HN
Alternatives named
Docdrop with Hypothesis
From 1 comment
You can do this now using Hypothesis at docdrop.org-- just pick a youtube video and add URL.
dwhly on HN
Emacs org-mode timer
From 1 comment
For the Emacs nerds among us, you can hack something similar together: when you start the video, also start a timer running in Emacs org-mode with `org-timer-start` (`C-c C-x 0`)…
ashton314 on HN
videospeed extension
From 1 comment
Relatedly, if you want to skim videos to find relevant/interesting parts, this is incredibly useful: https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed
avivo on HN
familymemorystream.com
From 1 comment
Interesting to see this. A couple months ago I launched a site (https://familymemorystream.com/) that allows annotating videos but is targeted towards the niche of converted…
deckeraa on HN
tagx.io
From 1 comment
This has a nice UI, well done on launching! I made something similar but never really thought of monitising it. The focus was on the tagging/annotating for power users with…
cxam on HN
Rumin
From 1 comment
I like the accessibility and non-intrusive nature of extensions sometimes and was happy to discover Rumin. I've been going berserk since last week with a custom hack on top of…
santa_boy on HN