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ReelSurfer (YC S12) Lets You Clip And Share Video From Any Website

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I could see this blowing up if reddit starts using it to replace .gifs.

In fact, you could even jumpstart the process by heading over and doing it yourself.

Best of luck! And Christian, long time since the library.

Great idea! Yes, it has been a long time. You should make a reel chronicling your adventures since the JM days!

Part of the reason people use gifs is because they're easier to edit and remix.

That is part of the mission, giving the average person the power to remix and create.

This is fun.

Did you hear about PG's ambitious medical startup idea? - http://www.reelsurfer.com/watch/clip/share_id/7127/390

This rocks, thanks for sharing

This is such a fun app. I'm worried it will stop being fun because as a startup you might have to turn it into something not-fun :-(

I remember meeting Neil 4 years ago at Stanford's new startups career fair, when they were trying ReelSurfer back then! Its nice to see him stuck to the idea, getting into YC and then launching it on much bigger stage! Now I think about it, I think its incredible, to stick to the idea and follow that passion! Good luck Niel & team.

Neat idea!

Bug report: I tried to watch this video: http://www.reelsurfer.com/watch/clip/share_id/7127/390 I use Chrome with the click-to-play-flash setting turned on. With Javascript enabled for your site, I see the "click to play" flash window, but I'm not able to actually click on it. Right clicking gives me the background context menu.

Hmm..it didn't work in (vanilla) IE 9 either...

Thanks for taking a look! Interesting point on the click-to-play setting. Does it wok for you without that settings? As for IE9, do you have Flash installed? If not, HTML5 support is coming soon!

Another per-site setting "Allow this site to run plug-ins", was still turned off for your site in my browser. After allowing plug-ins, video plays fine in Chrome.

And yes, facepalm, flash isn't installed in IE. I'd forgotten it doesn't come with other browsers.

This is just a great concept. It's surprisingly frustrating to try and find relevant movie quotes on YouTube, download them, convert them, clip them, re-convert and upload back. I tried doing this for a funny tumblr I was putting together in my spare time - moviequotesaftersex.tumblr.com/ - and gave up because it was just too time consuming. So good luck to the team and I look forward to using the product, but how will this make money and stay sustainable?

Awesome, you can embed clips directly into blogs or tumblr so make sure to send me a link so I can check it out - sounds funny.

We actually used to sell this as a service so there are some valuable pieces... stay tuned :)

Congratulations to Neil, Christian and the team! This has been a long time coming and I guess the best way to comment is through a clip: http://reelsurfer.com/watch/clip/share_id/7063/40

YAY! Hopefully this fills the void left in my life after the loss of getspool.com...now if only I can cache on my android for viewing on the go..... good luck with reelsurfer

Wait wtf is this??? http://reelsurfer.com/watch/clip/share_id/7096/1

congrats neil. remember this product from a few years ago, and remember being impressed with the audio-to-text technology. glad to see their product launch, ready for primetime. will circulate this around the office as well.

Congrats, I've heard great things about Reel Surfer. Can't wait to use it

definitely could see this being very big in the future! i've been looking for a program like this for a while. keep up the good work and i'm sure this will go far.

awesome, make a clip and send it to us!

Congrats Neil and Christian!! Wonderful day for the team.

Awesome idea to have a tl;dr for video!

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