playr.me

Consumer and social

video playlist maker

SHOW HN2013

23points
44comments
#935of 1,739 in 2013
Top 54%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

6 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 2 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.

Design: 4 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, simple minimalist interface

    From 4 comments
    • I like it! Very clean and simple, personally I find YouTube's built-in playlists pretty clunky so this is nice to see. As a bonus, with something like this I never have to read…
      alex_c on HN
    • I love it. finally! Things I love: 1. Search while you watch 2. minimalist interface design 3. dark color scheme 4. drag and drop sortable playlist Things to add: 1. Mobile…
      Fando on HN
    • Love it! Simple is always good.
      MatthewB on HN
    • Clean easy to use, good job !
      thiboutot on HN
  • Solves a pain point with YouTube playlists

    From 2 comments
    • This is really well done & solves a pain point that I mostly never realized even existed. This is my default youtube client now. That being said here are some improvements that…
      gshahlot on HN
    • I like it! Very clean and simple, personally I find YouTube's built-in playlists pretty clunky so this is nice to see. As a bonus, with something like this I never have to read…
      alex_c on HN

Objections

  • Mobile devices not supported

    From 1 comment
    • I love it. finally! Things I love: 1. Search while you watch 2. minimalist interface design 3. dark color scheme 4. drag and drop sortable playlist Things to add: 1. Mobile…
      Fando on HN
  • Volume slider cannot be dragged

    From 2 comments
    • This is really well done & solves a pain point that I mostly never realized even existed. This is my default youtube client now. That being said here are some improvements that…
      gshahlot on HN
    • Nice. Bookmarked. I never liked how Youtube solved playlists. I like the URL pattern, because it makes it easy, to write a bookmarklet that turns all Youtube links on a page into…
      lignuist on HN
  • Search feature is hard to notice

    From 2 comments
    • This is really well done & solves a pain point that I mostly never realized even existed. This is my default youtube client now. That being said here are some improvements that…
      gshahlot on HN
    • I like it! Very clean and simple, personally I find YouTube's built-in playlists pretty clunky so this is nice to see. As a bonus, with something like this I never have to read…
      alex_c on HN
  • Buttons lack tooltips and clear icons

    From 2 comments
    • This is really well done & solves a pain point that I mostly never realized even existed. This is my default youtube client now. That being said here are some improvements that…
      gshahlot on HN
    • Nice. Bookmarked. I never liked how Youtube solved playlists. I like the URL pattern, because it makes it easy, to write a bookmarklet that turns all Youtube links on a page into…
      lignuist on HN

Requests

  • Mobile-friendly UI

    From 2 comments
    • I love it. finally! Things I love: 1. Search while you watch 2. minimalist interface design 3. dark color scheme 4. drag and drop sortable playlist Things to add: 1. Mobile…
      Fando on HN
    • Oh man.. mobile compatibility. I have a nexus 4 coming in soon, so I might just give it a go. Making the video go away would make a few people happy for sure.
      vishaldpatel on HN
  • Option to hide or remove video for audio-only playback

    From 3 comments
    • Beautiful interface! I actually was throwing around the idea of an audio only Youtube player, can is there a way to toggle the video?
      swohns on HN
    • That would be good... I wonder if it's possible to remove the video entirely, as opposed to just hiding it - would be really useful when I listen to music on Youtube on battery…
      alex_c on HN
    • Give the user the ability to toggle video display. This does not violate Google policy. Everyone is happy ;)
      Fando on HN
  • Previous and next buttons

    From 2 comments
    • I seem to have maxed out the number of songs you can keep track of in one URL. See: http://bit.ly/10kZyKg which loads 130 songs, but my playlist is 156 songs long (until I close…
      stevenkovar on HN
    • This is really well done & solves a pain point that I mostly never realized even existed. This is my default youtube client now. That being said here are some improvements that…
      gshahlot on HN
  • User accounts to save playlists

    From 2 comments
    • This is really well done & solves a pain point that I mostly never realized even existed. This is my default youtube client now. That being said here are some improvements that…
      gshahlot on HN
    • I love it. finally! Things I love: 1. Search while you watch 2. minimalist interface design 3. dark color scheme 4. drag and drop sortable playlist Things to add: 1. Mobile…
      Fando on HN
  • Shortened URL sharing and longer playlist support

    From 1 comment
    • I seem to have maxed out the number of songs you can keep track of in one URL. See: http://bit.ly/10kZyKg which loads 130 songs, but my playlist is 156 songs long (until I close…
      stevenkovar on HN

Questions

  • Is the source code available?

    From 1 comment
  • Does clicking video names do anything?

    From 1 comment
    • What does clicking on the video names do? I mean, other than toggling the existence of a gray bar above the name.
      anonymoushn on HN

Alternatives named

  • Mixtube

    From 1 comment
    • Nice. Bookmarked. I never liked how Youtube solved playlists. I like the URL pattern, because it makes it easy, to write a bookmarklet that turns all Youtube links on a page into…
      lignuist on HN
  • jukeboxfor.me

    From 1 comment
    • Should be, there was a similar kind of app online for a while at jukeboxfor.me. There you only played music from youtube, no video.
      Tosh108 on HN
  • tinycassette.com

    From 1 comment
    • Hey, I also played with this idea a while ago in tinycassette.com. I added soundcloud support too. I do not have the search feature yet, but I also made a chrome extension to…
      filipeb on HN

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