I've been hiding on News.YC for a few weeks now, and have been loving the content and feedback this community has. I'd like to submit my latest startup that a friend and I created over 6 months in our spare time.<p>Any feedback/critiques/ideas very, very welcome!<p>Here's the quick summary:
Chime.TV aggregates millions of videos from across the web (from blip.tv, Break.com, DailyMotion, Google Videos, Kewego, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh.com, YouTube) to create a tv-like experience within your browser. With over 20 editorially-programmed channels, you can get started right away watching everything from documentaries to music videos.
Or, you can do a search to find what you are looking for. You can save favorites, create your own channels to share and even send video-mail to friends. With a fullscreen, non-stop playing experience that is always on-demand, Chime.TV is truly lean back internet TV.
Really nice execution on an idea so boring and obvious that everybody goes "of course there's a site that does that", which is probably the very best kind of idea. Great intro video, too. Everybody on the internet likes cute girls talking to them.<p>If you manage to get some traction before a dozen imitators spring up, you'll be golden.
Just a suggestion: I reinstalled my machine and didn't install Flash yet. The site just brings up the alert box telling me I should go to www.flash.com to download it. I expected the site to provide a direct link to the flash download, but instead all I got after the alert box was a blank page. <p>Granted, many users will have flash installed, but if my mom didn't and and she tried using your site with the current configuration, she wouldn't bother after getting just a blank page. (Granted, I don't think mom will be browsing YouTube and MySpace videos...at least I hope not).
Jaed: Great suggestion, I think we will implement that idea, thanks<p>Zach: It's actually just an issue with flash on OSX i believe, but we're looking into how to fix that now, thanks :D<p>Vuknje: If you grab the blue bar just above the playlist, you can resize the playlist to your liking :)<p>Staunch: Actually if you check out our Net100 Channel ( <a href="http://chime.tv/#net100/" rel="nofollow">http://chime.tv/#net100/</a> ) it combines the top videos from digg, mefi, youtube etc all in one place!<p>Thanks for the kind words Mkull and Mdolon
first impression is good. nice looking, easy to use, great ui.<p>only thing i don't like is playlist.. it's height is too small and it is too wide.. and i would like to see title of next video somewhere when playlist is hidden<p>