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Jason Schuller

riv.yt - A minimalist way to view and share YouTube videos

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A simple way to share & view YouTube videos. By keeping viewers from getting lost in recommends and thumbnails, our distraction-free designs can help increase user interactions by 330%.

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Chris Russell 🤙 Practical Printing

I have been using RIVYT for months to host my website for my YouTube channel. This new functionality just takes things one step further. It allows people to experience the content without all the rubbish.

Pros:

This is a great way to experience YouTube without the hinderance of Youtube itself!

Cons:

None that I have found yet

Christopher John
Maker
Thanks, Chris!
Filippo Mursia
Love it! Simple and clean
Jason Schuller
Maker
@mrdobelina Thank you!
Christopher John
Maker
@mrdobelina Thanks, Filippo!
Kaushal Vyas
This is quite cool, actually. It also presents bigger preview on Facebook as compared to sharing a YouTube URL, which could make Facebook posts more engaging.
Nitesh Manav
Hello @themolitor and @jschuller, This seems amazing and can be the great alternative to paid YouTube-skin features of VooPlayer etc. But it needs a WordPress plugin for sure. Can we currently emded it on WordPress site? Are you planning to monetize it as well in near future? I would love to know if you guys have any plan to create a WordPress plugin so that any YouTube videos posted on Posts can be wrapped with riv-yt codes and hence can be made beautiful and distraction full. I would also want you to include 'Sticky video' of Facebook like 'floating video' feature if you are thinking to create WP plugin. :) Thank you.
Christopher John
Maker
@jschuller @niteshmanav Thanks Nitesh! Some great suggestions here. We're excited at everyone's reaction and brainstorming possible implementations of riv.yt. We definitely have a laundry list of ideas and features we want to integrate into this service. It's just a matter of sitting down and deciding on which one we should focus on first ;-)
Nitesh Manav
@jschuller @themolitor Thanks for the response. Well, I had forgotten about the parent project 'Rivyt' that I had loved and upvoted months back. :) The designs at rivyt is simply top-notch now. I think you guys should think about some 'agency plan' for your rivyt model as well, where a digital media agency can get a while-labeled rivyt for their clients' YouTube channel. I might try to contact you externally for some partnership soon. Be ready. :)
Christopher John
Maker
@jschuller @niteshmanav Please feel free to reach out to us: hi@rivyt.com
Trell West

Would love to see an area for lead gen.

Pros:

Easy, super simple.. great for video content creators as well as web designers. Team is awesome as well

Cons:

None. Works as advertised. Too easy!

Christopher John
Maker
Thanks, Trell!
Liam McKay
Another beautiful looking project, congrats! I thought it might be useful to have a "Shared by" link at the bottom of the page too, so I could attach my name / avatar to the link. Also it might be cool to look at distraction free playlists at some point too. I continue to love what you guys are making!
Jason Schuller
Maker
@liammckay Thanks Liam ... will definitely keep "shared by" and playlists in mind for future updates.
Nathan Gathright
Just wanted to repeat my feature request from twitter here: Youtube's API supports both starting and ending timestamps as parameters, but youtube.com only supports the starting parameter. riv.yt could really capitalize on this as the easiest way to share a distraction-free segment of a video!
Jason Schuller
Maker
@nathang Awesome suggestion. Will definitely keep this in mind for a future update.
Christopher John
Maker
@nathang Thanks for sharing that feature idea! We definitely plan on adding more features to this, so stay tuned!
Sam McAllister
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Very nice work, will be using this to share my YouTube videos on Instagram stories using swipe-up! 🤜🤜
Christopher John
Maker
@sammcallister Awesome! Thanks Sam! 🤜
Krishna De
Great tool - I plan to use this for YT videos I want to share during workshops as it is free from distractions!
Christopher John
Maker
@krishnade Thanks, Krishna!
eN
Hey, really nice!
Thom Stoodley
Very nice.. but needs a dark mode. See nospoiler.com
Jason Schuller
Maker
@stooodley Thanks ... will definitely keep that in mind for an update.
Carl Gratiot

Yet another great product from the RIVYT folks.

Pros:

Way easier to share a video with someone when you know they’ll be able to focus solely on the content itself. Super sleek!

Cons:

Nada

Christopher John
Maker
Thanks Carl!!!
Damjanski
<3 <3 <3
Clayton Parker
You guys are absolutely killing it. Also who was that handsome guy in one of the thumbnails on the intro to your promo video 🤣
Christopher John
Maker
@unclejessy4real Lol! Thanks Clayton!
Roman
@themolitor @jschuller Love it. And have an immediate use for it. I got a small complaint though. When you're viewing the individual video page and click play it opens up the youtube player and you have to click play again to actually start playback. That's confusing.
Christopher John
Maker
@jschuller @romanzadyrako Thanks! In order for views to count on YouTube, Google requires users to manually click the play button in the video embed. We’re working on adding “advanced options” that include an auto-play feature for users that are sharing a video and are not concerned about view count.
Shikha Jain

love the idea hope it gets good adoption and engagement

Pros:

uninterrupted video view !!!

Cons:

need to explore search / playlist etc

Chakib Tsouli

I love the idea, but consider a dark mode.

Pros:

Minimalistic. No content rabbit holes

Cons:

No dark mode

Flávio Pereira
@alexkhuda how about restream in here? Sound like a good website developing idea makers, gonna test it out