Show HN: Mootu.be - a cleaner way to view YouTube videos

mootu.be

5 points·jetcom··8 comments

Q: Why not just reuse the hash from Youtube like this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mpaPBCBjSVc Would become: mootu.be/v/mpaPBCBjSVc

This way it would be even easier to share content fast through mootu.be...

Anyway, neat service. Will be sure to try it out!

And you can teach to users just put the "mootu.be/v/" instead of "http://youtube.com/watch?v= " beginning of the url.And please put the contact form into the mootu.be ok I really didn't understand why weren't you put it.

This is an excellent suggestion and something that I had actually implemented in my original version. After using it for a little bit, however, I wasn't a big fan of the long, garbled URLs. I wanted the URLs to be as clean as the site itself. But maybe I should add that functionality back in. Thanks!

I think it's neat. People know what it is when they see it and I think your service might be even more useable...

It would be extremely simple to build plugins around your service as well, because the only thing you need is your URL - then appending any Video ID...

Nice work!

You should consider building a Chrome extension or something of that sort for other browsers to redirect to your site for each video on YouTube.com. Cause it can be a real hassle to copy and paste between tabs.

Interesting idea. Might have to incorporate it into the next release of the Mootu.be Chrome extension.

Looks clean. Can you add title/description of the video being played?

Thanks! Yeah, so the title should appear by default on the video page (with the option to remove it), and I did have the description toggleable at one point but chose to remove it. I'll add in the option to display it.

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