Escapista

Curated videos to relax and explore the world from home.

2 followers

Curated videos to relax and explore the world from home.

2 followers

Choose a channel and let your mind wander with the continuous stream of videos we handpicked from the best YouTube creators. Relax with the natural images and sounds while you work, put on your TV or invite your friends to watch together.

Launch tags:Web App•Meditation•Travel

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What a wonderful job! I really like the smooths transitions and I think that was a nice touch to a delightful experience, really embracing the concept and giving the content a amazing place to live! Congratulations! I feeling myself traveling around the world!

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5yr ago

Escapista

Maker

@pellizzaro thank you so much my friends 😊 This project had many hands, minds and hearts, and yours was certainly one of them.

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5yr ago

Beautiful job, I had an idea similar to this at the beginning of the quarantine and I'm happy that someone did it with some increments. Congratulations my friends!

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5yr ago

Escapista

Maker

@emersonlaurentino Thanks man :D It's great that we can see more people gravitating towards Slow TV recently. Let's talk more about it anytime!

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5yr ago

ByPeople

Nature is my peaceful place by default. I'm so glad Escapista is here with just what I need for relaxing, the clips, the sounds, the design, everything! Just fantastic!

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5yr ago

Escapista

Maker

@juanpablosarmi I'm so glad you like it! And seems Nature has been the favorite category for most of our users. Let us know if you have any feedbacks or ideas on how it could be even better :)

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5yr ago

Escapista

Maker

Hello PH 😊 For a few years, I've been in love with the concept of Slow TV, but not doing much about it. 😅 But since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, I started collecting some YouTube channels, and I was shocked with how much amazing stuff was there! So we started sketching ideas for a website that would help highlight all this amazing content, but with a frictionless experience that attempts to fix once and for all the choice paralysis present in so many video streaming platforms these days. This project was co-created with the /r/SlowTV community, where we understood the whys and hows of those users. One of the main requests: an interface that would be calming, "playing to the affective experience of watching Slow TV itself". We crafted a user interface inspired by Scandinavian design, well-known for its minimalism and elegance - and also the birthplace of the original Slow TV show. Those were aired on broadcast TV during days, you couldn't pause or fast-forward - it was "at the speed of life". Under the hood we use a YouTube Embedded Player, so all views and ad revenue goes to the original creators. For the past months we've gone through 2000+ videos, tagging, rating, and filtering over our high-quality standards to air only the best. We want to continue growing the database and improving the website with new features, so please share your candid feedback and ideas with us 😁 For us, Escapista is a heartfelt passion project, and building it brought us much joy in these uncertain times. We deeply hope you feel it too, and share it with your friends that might like it too.

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5yr ago

Love this sooo much, perfect when working from home to just have it on the tv in the background. One thing that would be nice is to have more languages natively, I'm using automatic translation to english in chrome and it's a bit weird. Other than that, great!

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5yr ago

Escapista

Maker

@pelle_evertsson So glad you liked it! Yesss we've been using it a lot in these times working from home to escape from the boredom of constantly looking at our room's walls lol About languages, we do have native support for English, Spanish and Portuguese. BUTI just noticed that our fallback language was set to Portuguese, which is not very International, right? hahah I've just fixed that, now you won't need Google Translate anymore ;)

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5yr ago

really good job both design-wise and concept! The website is (for me at least) a bit heavy to load, so i couldn't really get a video to play before i lost interest :(

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5yr ago

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Maker

@johan_duus_terkelsen Thanks! And I'm sorry to hear that. We've been getting a few reports like yours, seems it's a problem with Youtube's autoplay feature that I though I had solved and the metrics told me so, but seem that's not the case. Would you mind if I contact you directly to gather some more info about it?

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5yr ago

@johan_duus_terkelsen @cmdalbem Hi, it seems to work again for me.

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5yr ago