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This is seriously fantastic. I saw Vine yesterday and thought it was a cool concept but didn't try it, after watching this I've downloaded the app and shared it with a bunch of friends and they're now downloading the app too! Such a simple and brilliant idea, Vine should add this to their homepage.

edit: I've now been watching this for 40 minutes... why are the banal acts of ordinary people so interesting?! Maybe it's the promise of a brand new thing in 6 seconds that keeps me watching.

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I'm surprised vineroulette.com wasn't the chosen URL for this

Considering the content of chatroulette, I think it's a wise decision not to use a name that conjures up those images.

One up. I was thinking the same name too!

Isn't there a potential challenge for vinepeek? How would you prevent pervs streaming penises and see-me-jerk-off clips? Especially, when this thing grows in volume.

Actually, this would be a fairly solvable problem: only show Vines from users with 400+ or more followers and older than a year (you may have to refine this metric to also examine the validness of their followers' accounts). Presumably, people with Twitter followings to care about won't just flash their junk...though maybe once in while, you'll get an Anthony Weiner.

In fact, you could probably get a certain class of videos by only showing Vines in which the tweets are directed at people, to catch the folks who forgot that @-mentions != DM (ala Anthony Weiner)

Defer the problem to Vine, surely?

They could hand curate the stuff that goes into the vinepeek pool.

I couldn't resist and registered the domain name.. Hope you don't mind :) Will put up a mashup there soon and Show HN!

Here we go: http://www.vineroulette.com - it allows you to search for any topic, or 'go random'. It combines all latest Vines in a full-screen visualization.

Edit: Discussion @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124795

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