Fliggo (YC S08) launches TwitVid - the TwitPic of video (opens in new tab)

(techcrunch.com)

48 pointssharpshoot17y ago23 comments

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mrduncan17y ago· 6 in thread

It looks like the .com (http://twitvid.com) belongs to someone else, does anyone else see this as a pretty big hurdle to adoption?

pg17y ago

It seems like it's not the end of the world. Dropbox doesn't have dropbox.com, and they're doing well. It's a constant annoyance, but it doesn't kill you. What kills you is making something users don't like. As long as you make something users like, you can survive domain name problems.

shabda17y ago

But its a constant annoyance which is going to stay for ever. Why not choose a different name? (Or buy the domain, before launching, its going to cost more, the more successful you become.)

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netsp17y ago

1 - Dropbox.com is obviously not dropbox mistaken users will go to Google. 2 - Dropbox isn't really a site. It's more something you install on your machine. I use dropbox and I don't remember knowing that it isn't on dropbox.com 3 - It probably still costs dropbox something.

vaksel17y ago

the problem is the name...even on techcrunch article they are branded as twitvid, not twitvid.io

sharpshootOP17y ago

On twitter the guys own twitter.com/twitvid

owning @twitvid will also be super valuable to get ahead

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colinplamondon17y ago

Shit, that seems pretty brainless. TwitCam, TwitSee, TwitSight, TwitEye, Twitwhateverthehellbutfortheloveofchristownyourdomainsdotcom.

Great way to funnel traffic to the wrong url, everything they do in marketing will send traffic to TwitVid.com, their competitor.

ryanwaggoner17y ago· 5 in thread

I don't fully understand...why not just post your video to Youtube and then tweet the URL?

chris2417y ago

I suppose the only real reason to use Twitpic or TwitVid over Flickr & YouTube would be for the Twitter-specific features. For TwitVid, I guess that's easy access to retweet, favorite, or reply to a video. For Twitpic, I suppose that would be the reply chains that appear below the pictures. I'm still surprised that's enough to make people want to use these services over the more popular/mainstream ones.

lanaer17y ago

Within certain demographics, twitpic is more popular than flickr. It may not even be that hard to find people who use twitpic and don’t even know what flickr is.

Another advantage: if you’re using twitter, it’s easier to get started with twitpic than with flickr, since you don’t need a new account. Obviously this does not apply if you were using flickr already.

garply17y ago

Why not just post your image to Flickr?

alex_c17y ago

Having never used TwitPic, I actually consider that a valid question.

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ajasver17y ago

One very good reason is that it's way faster to upload to Twitvid and share stuff than Youtube. They auto-tweet it once the vid is done processing so you don't even have to wait.

jmonegro17y ago

Really well done, really well executed. The .com version might be dangerous, as people tend to type the .com intuitively, but these guys got the advantage of an early release...

sfphotoarts17y ago

Another one like this thats been live for a couple of weeks now.. http://tinyvid.io - much the same thing.

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