I say "had this built" because it was my little experiment in management. The whole thing was put together by a team of 4 (including me) and now we've launched it without me writing a single line of code. Since I'm the guy who's usually coding nonstop to launch something, it was a refreshing change and a fun experiment.
I'd really like one that stores my queue on Pinboard.in (as unread links, tagged as 'video').
Right now we only support Vimeo and YouTube, but we'll be adding more soon, once we find out what people want.
One quick bit of feedback: I notice when I'm logged in and try to refresh my saved videos (say to refresh to see whether the video I just hit "Watch Later" would appear), the app logs me out. Everything else appears to work great - including leaving the page and coming back to it. Just when I hit refresh. When I log back in, the video appears in my queue like I'd expect it to.
It's probably on your radar, but being able to save TED Talk videos and Mixergy interviews would be great.
As for the error, you might've caught us while we were frantically rebooting. :) But I'll check it out.
I find your idea great and I have built something similar my self. I focused mostly on the interface and the fact that many times when watching a video you want to be able to switch between videos and make them fullscreen without interrupting their download. For example, when you have a long video on youtube that is split into many parts.
Playlists and ratings for videos is also quite useful in my opinion.
If you want some ideas check it out: http://lideo.me - you don't have to register/signup to start using it. You can do that later.
I'd be interested in an iphone app that plays the hd audio of youtube playlists, is this related enough to be a feature?
What do you mean it doesn't support your habits? Can you describe your video-watching habits?
edit: I do see a point in what you do, it's for medium immediacy. I watch quickly to keep up with trends/memes, and before copyright holders delete music.
In your slider bar for how much time you have, I would recommend having some dynamic text above the dot displaying how much time I have selected. It's a bit confusing trying to discern the exact number between the discreet quantities (e.g. between 5 and 10 minutes, is it 7 minutes or 8 minutes).
Also, Instapaper nailed it with the "Saving ..." > "Saved!" language in the book mark. If you are using the name, go the whole hog and copy that - the feedback to the user that it is safely stashed on the Insta~ servers is invaluable.
Big problem: Copying the "Insta" prefix just isn't going to work (unless you're Instapaper). You're using their branding and marketing efforts to your advantage, so if your site happens to take off you'll be up against legal issues.
Most of my friends are discouraged by having to create yet another account for a website they haven't found useful yet. It's a shame because so many services become useful when they have the social element---there would be no point to Facebook if none of your friends used it. I know that the login with Facebook option helped me coax a few people on to Convore to talk with me.
Also, consider making that picture of the time slider bigger and more friendly looking (centered!) It's an awesome feature that works really well with video. You could even advertise it something like ``Take a break! Watch [n] minutes of videos you've saved.''
I'm getting a few 502 Bad Gateway errors.
...except that I'd need it to be able to queue up things that I can watch later on a mobile device, possibly while offline. That's what makes Instapaper awesome.
The site works on your mobile device since it uses HTML5 embeds. A native app is in the works.
Caching is more difficult since it violates the TOS for some web sites -- but not all. So I'll have to sort this out on a case-by-case basis, but it may be added at some point too.
By the way, have you seen vhx.tv?
Fun fact: Former Vimeo developer Casey Pugh is one of the people behind the site.
Excuse me while I go sign up and watch shit, now…
http://wacchen.com says it right on the box.
