I've been burned before by startups that got hacked and spammed all my twitter friends. Sorry, normal signup or I'm not doing it.<p>Love the project though.
Fantastic work. I really hope pg has accepted your application to ycombinator. You clearly have a talent for hard work, perseverance and knowing how to market your product well. Even if pg doesn't like the idea, he should realise the team is very capable.<p>I have a question though Karen, did you know you were going to do this project before you created this video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daC2EPUh22w" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daC2EPUh22w</a> ? (I originally saw it on r/GetMotivated when it went viral originally) or did you decide to build it due to the popularity that the video got and the requests from people wanting to achieve similar?<p>(Just curious from a marketing point of view whether you planned for the dance video to go viral to boost your idea or whether you saw an untapped market due to the popularity of the video and decided to fill it)<p>----<p>[EDIT] - Just got my question answered by watching this : <a href="http://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=9m57s" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=9m57s</a> - I'm glad that it was an idea that came out of the viral consequence of the original video, rather than the original plan all along.<p>Also just realised that the woman learning to walk video I saw today on r/GetMotivated was submitted by you / part of the same project.<p>I can see pg's mind turning over in the office hours video, trying to understand the concept and how big it can grow - I think he's right in the fact that you should see how people use it and allow yourselves to pivot if another idea emerges out of where you're at so far.<p>I guess the issue is that one of the reasons for the successful popularity of your original dancing video was that it had a nice balance of unique story, being told in a short enough manner that the viewer keeps watching, combined with the final scene coming together perfectly with the music / train / nailing the dance which in my opinion was the 're share' moment - where the user thinks 'I must re share this!'.<p>The problem is in the 10 second videos it's unlikely I'll want to 're share a single video' - so it's the compiled story at the end which becomes the thing I want to share as a user - but that's not automated / easy to produce. That said, I did enjoy watching the journey of you guys producing the product in 100 days (10 second clip at a time) so, in a world of transparency and people wanting free publicity it does seem to work. (infact I would happily continue watching the journey for 10 seconds a day, to continue the journey past launch out of interest to see what happens next).<p>Either way, both you and Finbarr have produced, marketed and launched a cool product in 100 days which is a pretty amazing feat in itself.
This is such a cool idea. What's the reasoning behind limiting the video length? Quite a few people appear to get cut off in their videos before they have a chance to document their progress.<p>This one is good, 60+ days of coding: <a href="https://giveit100.com/@joanne" rel="nofollow">https://giveit100.com/@joanne</a>
Oh yeah... these guys did office hours on stage for Startup School 2013: <a href="http://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=9m57s" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=9m57s</a>
Some people on here are probably going to flame this idea because it glorifies someone showing off what they are doing, but I think they are missing the point: this is just a tool to keep yourself accountable (a la the Seinfeld calendar).<p>Feature suggestion (that is probably already in your pipeline): Add the ability for friends to join groups and do something together for 100 days and keep count of their friends who also keep on doing X for 100 days. If I just stumbled on this site, I would probably say "Cool" and then I would never come back bc I don't have anything right now that I would dedicate 100 days to. It seems like the tricky part for y'all will be to get people to realize that your platform is broad, but they are specific and they can find use in this platform right now.<p>Oh yeah, Congratulations on launching and good luck!
I love everything about this. It was fun watching your videos and how far you progressed over the 100 days. Even more fun to see that made the last video about the post right here on HN.<p>Okay, I just went to your front page and as soon as I saw your subway shot, I remembered your dance <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daC2EPUh22w" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daC2EPUh22w</a>. Nicely done!<p>Congrats!
Since this does seem to have roots in the Seinfeld calendar methodology, are there plans to have a before/after of the 100 days? It would probably be more quantifiable and inspirational to see the ends as well as the spectrum.<p>This will be a great social and personal tool for keeping people (hopefully myself) more accountable for my commitment to learn. Wonderful work.
This is fantastic! Such a good idea, and a very clever way to launch it. As I was browsing through the videos (very intuitive interface), I was wondering why I hadn't heard of this "giveit100" site before. Hit me midway through that these were videos of you developing the site I was looking at, and by then I was already on board.<p>A few things:<p>* There were details in some of the videos that I wish I could've full-screened to see, but I don't know of a good way to do that from a UX perspective. Keeping video transition delay to a minimum I think would be key.<p>* This method of auto-playing videos onmouseover is brilliant. Good job Finbarr.<p>* I think at its core, this is a video Seinfeld calendar. I want to feel some kind of social pressure for skipping a day.<p>Again, great job, and congrats on the launch! It looks like you had an excellent time making it.
I love the concept, and I dig the "no-click" style of watching. Makes for a very nice UX.<p>I hope there can be some good stories that come from it.. but what happens if someone starts being inconsistent with their project? I wonder how many people will fully complete the 100 days
Any chance I can use this with OpenId or sign up for an individual account some time soon? I really hate using my social accounts to sign in. I know it's probably super low priority.<p>I think it's a pretty neat idea :)
I love the hover to play video! Simplicity of a gif without the horrible loading of everything at once.<p>Small heads up: many of the avatars are not loading on the front page.<p>Good luck!
Mouseover video playback its kinda crappy when your scrolling, if your mouse cursor is crossing over several videos you just keep hearing too many random sounds. Also since everything is recorded at different volumes it makes my ears bleed.
I love this idea so much and you two really owned those clips! It's so rare to get a glimpse of how a startup went from day 1 to day 100 on this level. And it looks like you had fun! :)
It's like you took all the best parts of Evr.st, but stripped away all the pretentious bullshit because you're genuinely into the idea.<p>So yeah. It's awesome. Congrats!
I think this is a great idea. However, I'd like to see a follow up. I'd like to see how they do in their first year, first 5 years, etc. Wish them luck!
One critique of your site design, I don't know if it's just me, but infinite scrolling can be frustrating. I was trying to get to the "About" section in the footer but it kept running away from me.<p><a href="http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/03/infinite-scrolling-get-bottom/" rel="nofollow">http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/03/infinite-scr...</a>
Such a cool idea, congrats on your early traction. It reminds me of that video I recently saw of the dude who filmed a few seconds of each day for xdays.
Well, to say everything I was sceptic. Then I saw your video of you learning to dance - you should definitely look at that if you didn't already. After one year your progresses are absolutely awesome. That's what worked for me with the video and what might worked too with giveit100: see people starting from scratch and then become awesome into something. Good luck, that's pretty cool.
Very cool idea. I would change the functionality of the commenting system. I'd like to see the comments on the same page as all the videos, rather than clicking through to a new page. I think it would have the nice side-effect of more engagement with the comments. They're also not super obvious at first as I found myself looking around for a comment button of some sort.
Small bit of feedback: If the browser window is big enough to not have to scroll on the first load, the infinite scroll doesn't kick in at all. I looked around for a solid minute trying to find a "next" button. Came back here and saw an "infinite scroll" comment, resized my browser, and loaded again. which solved it for me.<p>Other than that, very cool!
I like this idea. I started around week ago, recording short movies (5-20 sec) from every day of work on my latest project. It help me stay focus. That's why I think your app may help people like me to record their projects. But I won't create account because I won't login with Twitter/Facebook...
The videos loading all at once crashed my ubuntu computer with the newest version of firefox :/<p>It also totally bogged down my subpar internet connection since I would hover over a video to check it out, then scroll down, but the video would still be loading.