Show HN: Instafilm -- it's like Instapaper for videos

I had this built to scratch my own itch: I would always find videos that I wanted to watch and bookmark them. And then I'd lose them in a sea of bookmarks. Whenever I wanted to watch something, it was hard to find something that fit how much time I had. So this solves both those problems.<p>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 was just about to make something like this for myself. Thanks for making it! Looking forward to an iPad app.<p>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.<p>It's probably on your radar, but being able to save TED Talk videos and Mixergy interviews would be great.

Consider adding a ``Login with Facebook'' button. While I personally hate the login everywhere with Facebook idea, it can be pretty useful.<p>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.<p>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.''<p>I'm getting a few 502 Bad Gateway errors.

I've been using Radbox ( <a href="http://radbox.me" rel="nofollow">http://radbox.me</a> ) for a few months, much better, far more video sources, works on my Android phone, lets me create playlists. What's new?

I randomly got a nginx bad gateway error a couple times in a row. Don't know if you were resetting/restarting but just FYI might wanna tail your error log.

It works well, but I prefer the internal features, Youtube's Watch Later (and private playlists), and Vimeo's Watch Later. I think it will work better when there's more overlap between the sites it supports, or maybe it just doesn't support my habits. I'd love to come back in a month and look.<p>I'd be interested in an iphone app that plays the hd audio of youtube playlists, is this related enough to be a feature?

That's a pretty interesting management experiment.<p>By the way, have you seen vhx.tv?

I like the how-much-time-do-you-have slider. But why would I use this over YouTube own "watch later"?

I use <a href="http://www.squrl.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.squrl.com/</a> for this

I've been wishing for something like this for a while.<p>...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.

Another similar website was just launched: VHX (<a href="http://vhx.tv" rel="nofollow">http://vhx.tv</a>). It's currently in a closed beta, but they're slowly sending out invites. I've been using it for a few weeks now and it seems really nice, allowing you to choose things to watch later in addition to cataloging every video you watch on the internet (it spans tons of sites, way more than just Vimeo and YouTube).<p>Fun fact: Former Vimeo developer Casey Pugh is one of the people behind the site.

This looks awesome. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to support HTML5 video for YouTube; it complains that I don't have Flash (which I don't).

Awesome stuff. It's like my own personal, curated video channel!<p>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).

This is actually a really good idea. I use Read It Later and saving videos I want to watch later just doesn't work.<p>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.

You can probably answer that question on quora with your new service <a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-there-an-Instapaper-or-ReadItLater-for-YouTube-on-the-iPhone-or-iPod-Touch" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-there-an-Instapaper-or-ReadItL...</a>

I have been working on a similar project for a while, but for lack of time it's going nowhere. I've been wanting this forever though. Great to see these guys took it seriously and shipped. Woohoo!<p>Excuse me while I go sign up and watch shit, now…

Similar: <a href="http://www.squrl.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.squrl.com/</a>

But, do you say it's like instapaper for videos On your website.<p><a href="http://wacchen.com" rel="nofollow">http://wacchen.com</a> says it right on the box.

Great idea. To me, it's useless without an iPhone/iPad app though, looking forward to that.

Great app. Very simple, with one focus. Elegant design too. Hope this takes off!