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This is such a cool idea. What's the reasoning behind limiting the video length? Quite a few people appear to get cut off in their videos before they have a chance to document their progress.

This one is good, 60+ days of coding: https://giveit100.com/@joanne

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Probably the same reason as limiting twitter messages which many people like you criticized when they were just starting.

I think thats actually a great idea to limit video length, the reason behind it is to force people to film only the important and most interesting parts of the process, this will attract more people to watch it vs just film videos. There is a clip of a girl learning to monocycle, I watched it because it's very short, if it was 1min+ I would never watch it otherwise.

Thank you! We restricted it to 10 seconds to help keep the videos interesting. We definitely need a better way to trim the videos though. We'd like to build a mobile app that makes it very easy to select which 10s of the video you'd like. For now, it just uses the first 10s.

Great start. It's easy to imagine communities building up around different project areas.

Though this will tie you onto a different platform at least initially, have you considered integrating with vine/instagram in any way? Could be a good way to acquire more users.

Best of luck helping people achieve more.

That's a great idea, we'd love to do some importing from vine/instagram, e.g. with #giveit100 hashtags

Thanks! Good question. We really wanted to optimize for the experience of comparing one day with the next. Video is much harder to absorb than photo so we wanted to make each day really short and easy to digest.

People getting cut off is a problem. I think we can fix it with better tools for upload, i.e., an app.

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