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Fliggo Lets You Build Your Own YouTube [YC S08]

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I know techcrunch is(are) full of shit and Arrington is on vacation, but their posts aren't even spell-checked anymore? teh, athough, sItes, Wrodpress?

Isn't Notepad pretty much the only editor, online or off, that doesn't have automatic spellcheck? This is pretty ridiculous.

In any case, congratulations Fliggo! I hope my drunken insults concerning your failure to launch attributed to this climax ;)

My favorite techcrunch typo is when the first (or last) few _letters_ of a word are not included in the link-text for an href. Is it really that hard to select the whole word?

Check this one out: an intriguingly extreme case of redundancy.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/12/elevator-pitch-friday-d...

Something I've been thinking about doing for publishers. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/12/the-editor-dill.html

It's pretty sad that the top rated comment on a Y Combinator forum about a Y Combinator site launching is about typos. Get off your high horse. Leave a comment in the post if you see a typo and we'll usually fix it within a few minutes.

If anything, it shows an opinion shared by at least a handful of readers, with a fast impression and comparatively high relevance. It is honest opinion, not some high horse. And if anything, said sadness reflects upon TC, and not YC, NH, nor the site in question. This is customer feedback.

I've been wondering for a while - why doesn't Y-combinator take in more B2B business ideas?

It's much easier to capitalise, the market (defined as customers willing to pay you) is huge, and the products out there are crap.

Does Y-combinator just not believe in the B2B market, are none of the applications in this area, or what? I'm genuinely puzzled.

We invest in more b2b companies than you realize. You just don't hear about them much because b2b companies are quieter. For example, one of the most successful startups we've funded is Clustrix, but the nature of their business is such that if the general public ever knows their name it will be as a Nasdaq listing.

Isn't Clustrix funded by Sequoia Capital: http://www.sproutsys.com/investors.html

Yes, they're one of 3 YC alumni companies that are.

Is there a reason that some of the companies you fund, like Clustrix, are not mentioned at http://ycombinator.com/faq.html ?

Clustrix is still in beta, I think. But I probably should put them there.

Is there a good place to get more info about these quiet startups?

That makes sense - B2C businesses have every reason to post here, and other places, to get customers. B2B don't, they might even suffer from it.

Thanks for clearing it up :-)

This is not mainly YC's fault. Surf around. Every other week, I see a great startup that launches here with a consumer focus. All they needed to do, was focus on businesses and they could make a ton of money.

The sad truth is everyone wants to build the next Google. Meanwhile a few guys could copy services such as Scribd and sell the software to lawyers, small banks and clinics. And make a load of money.

Indeed their is an enterprise like scribd on the market now called vuzit

Awesome - we've wanted to add user-generated reviews on Dawdle, and video would be really neat. Definitely looking into this.

This is something I am definitely going to look into for my new learning / tutorial site. Saves building our own player or shelling out £26,000 for Brightcove (The quote they gave me!)

Join the party!

http://ticketstumbler.fliggo.com/

You make me wish that Dawdle was in YC just so that we could be a pre-release beta partner for other YC companies. :(

The business model of "We are going to create X for Y", where X is a service like YouTube, never works. After viewing the intro video I saw that you can do things like create private communities and invite people to join, and I thought that this is the same way I share photos with the family on flickr. But wait, doesn't flickr also support video? And so does Facebook, and I am sure there are others.

Maybe I am just misunderstanding their business model, but I don't see the value of this service.

flickr is a photo sharing site, that also supports video. Facebook is a social network that supports video. Both are inherently made up of many-to-many personal relations without much direct focus. Neither of those, though, allows you to create a video site dedicated solely to a community of you-to-many. So, first, the ability to upload a video and share it with your friends is not equivalent to running your own video site. The two have different value propositions to you, the user.

Secondly, there is a business/blog play that you overlooked. There is a reason TechCrunch didn't build Elevator pitches as a Facebook Group, or on flickr, and it's the same reason we (I'm one of the founders of JamLegend) didn't waste our time using a social network as a video site. The point of the mockup video sites (for Techcrunch Elevator Pitches, VentureBeat, and Mashable), is to show that the video services of all of those businesses could have been built on Fliggo, quickly and easily, and at what I presume to be a reduced cost. The hack solution is wordpress + YouTube, but that's not very elegant, lacks a certain amount of professionalism, and can be difficult to monetize effectively. So, to have a more professional solution before Fliggo, you had to develop your video site in-house, outsource/contract/etc, or use something like Brightcove. Now that there is Fliggo, the process became as easy as point-and-click, while still allowing a full array of customization (as we took full advantage of).

Flickr only has "long photos" limited to 90 seconds, and Facebook video isn't public.

This is really great for people who want to make video communities around their (existing or new) brand.

Facebook was once "Friendster for college kids", too.

X for Y is just an easy way of explaining things not a business model. It's straight out of the book Made to Stick.

Have you been looking at our bookshelf? Don't give away our trade secrets!

Ive spent a fair while scouring the site and yet to find any form of pricing options for hosting on my own domain, the guys definitely need a lot more call to action points.

Ill just have to go about it the old fashioned way of emailing the guys there, shame as I would probably liked to read up on the pricing and possibly sign at that point having seen the features.

We've got a lot of demand for custom domains, so it has become one of our top priorities Therefore, the answer is soon.

If you've got more questions, feel free to email me directly at dan [[at]] fliggo.com.

Somehow I remembered seeing fliggo repeatedly submitted on reddit with content taken from YouTube, and ended up associating it with blogspam. This must have been before it went YC. It looks quite different now, but how close was my impression?

To whomever is downmodding, your reason please? Basis of my perception:

http://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/6cxqc/top_10_...

http://digg.com/celebrity/Top_10_Jackie_Chan_Stunts_3

content taken from Youtube

Stealing from the stealers?

You are right, I don't know why you were modded down.

How does one go about getting TechCrunch to cover their product, on launch day?

By getting accepted into YC.

If your product is decent, they'll cover you.

It's always nice to hear updates from Y Combinator "graduates".

Letting users customize the CSS seems like a great idea. When I used MySpace I really missed the ability to do this without resorting to really flaky hacks.

Should I start hogging up subdomain names?

I only watched the video... but can you share video weblinks as well? The interface is fantastic, well done.

If you mean video embeds then yes, each video has a code and can be embedded just like YouTube.

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