Hello everyone,<p>How is everyone doing? Weekend is almost here, so kind of excited. Though, not sure if weekends are any different for most hackers, eh?<p>The thing is I want to spend my time this weekend building a web-app. But I don't want to work on something useless. I was wondering what do you guys think about having a hulu like service for programing screencasts, not just related on pure languages but also like learning Photoshop, WordPress blogs and what not. There are tons of these screencasts out there available freely but I think it would be nice to have it aggregated at one place with a clean UI. I know there are kinda related services out there, but most are paid and the free ones are just...Or maybe I haven't found the right one yet.<p>So, back to the question. Do you think it's worth it to spend my weekend on it? Would you use it? I think I should be able to build a functional prototype pretty easily in a weekend.<p>I would also love to hear if you have any ideas you want to give away for a weekend project :)<p>Thanks!
I think this is a great idea. Do you intend to spider the web (or use YouTube's API) for existing ones and archive them in addition to allowing people to upload their own?<p>For bonus points, if you could create a speech-to-text version of each of the screencasts and then index that text and make it searchable on your site, then it'll really be easy to find a screencast that somebody is interested in. For example, I'd search "merging layers" and you could find me the corresponding Photoshop screencast that happened to show how to merge layers.<p>Let us know how it goes once it's up.
I think <a href="http://showmedo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://showmedo.com/</a> is what you have in mind. It's not really sexy. Then again, programmers don't need sexy design.<p>I have tons of ideas on hand. I'll email you one or a dozen.
This would be a really useful service. And there are enough paid screencasts out there that you could probably develop relevant advertising on the site once it gets traction.