ViewedIt

@alexisohanian https://share.viewedit.com/ynwED... Had to do it :p

@thatmattgardner @alexisohanian viewedit inception

Thanks @adithya for comment! Currently ViewedIt is only supported on Google Chrome.

@d0b0 @alexisohanian That's the title :p

@thatmattgardner @alexisohanian beat me to it.

@a13n Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? This seems to be almost an exact copy of Opentest. I'd be curious to hear about any differentiators. What makes this product unique?

+1. are there any differentiators from Opentest?

@a13n Hi Andrew, thanks for checking us out! While our Sales team tried Opentest originally and liked the idea, the product didn't exactly fit into their workflow. We saw an opportunity to build a tool that would enable our own team and, we hope, many others to not only record their screen, voice and face, but also: - seamlessly share through email (thumbnail of your last recorded ViewedIt lives inside your Gmail compose window) and - get notified when your videos are being watched. We wanted to make the workflow super simple - Record, Share, Get Notifications. There might be similarities with Opentest on the video recording front, but there is much more that happens after you create a video. You can learn who is watching, how much of your video is consumed and use that feedback to help you create better videos! Also, we launched Vidyard Engage (Vidyard for Gmail & Outlook) earlier this year and received a lot of feedback from our customers that went into creation of ViewedIt.

I see how it has tangential features that are slightly different but overall looks very similar.

@colleen_b_thomas @a13n Hi Colleen, here are a couple of key differences: - While you can paste the URL to an Openvid video into Gmail (and other places) from your clipboard, ViewedIt inserts a thumbnail image in Gmail that will be a more compelling call to action than a text URL leading to more engaged viewers! - Playback tracking is another big one that only ViewedIt offers. When people watch your video, you get notified how many people Viewed It, and will receive email notifications showing who watched and for how long. Important insights for many customer-facing teams like sales, support and others… - Plus, features like full screen recording, and up to an hour of recording time are all standard out of the box. Send me a ViewedIt video to daryna@viewedit.com. I'll watch it and you'll get the full product experience. :)

@michaellitt @alexisohanian @viewed_it Great tool. I am already promoting it to my readers. Two small things: 1) Is there a maximum recording time? 2) On my first try I got this error: I thought you guys may have liked to know this. (On second try, everything went ok) Keep it up and many compliments for your great tool.

@robingood @alexisohanian @viewed_it - Thx for the feedback Robin! 1) We're currently limiting recording time to 1 hour. We're working on some optimizations to ensure that we can extend this soon. 2) Thx for letting us know about the 503, glad that the software fixed itself (@Viewed_It is basically wolverine). How are you planning on using it?

@michaellitt @alexisohanian @viewed_it Cool. I test and review tools for my readers. http://tools.robingood.com Viewed.it is in. I will use Viewed.it also for bug reporting and design feedback on projects. Since I have found a way to also download your final video, I could also use it for short tutorials or demos.

@robingood @viewed_it Looks like we had some issues with one of the dependent services that the ViewedIt share page relies on. We've made some adjustments so this should not happen in the future.

@thatmattgardner Hey Matt! So glad to hear this. We have been using ViewedIt for helping customers discover how to use Vidyard platform, so it's a very important use case for us to support. Happy recording, let me know if you have any questions at all! :)

Love it @robdrimmie! Showing > typing out long emails trying to explain changes or trying to annotate / mark up PDFs. Would love to get your feedback once you've used it with some clients.

@gadway Totally different use case but had this opportunity first: Big-ish ecommerce order of eyeglasses for me, my partner and our son. Recorded a slow scroll of the checkout screen so my partner could review. :thumbsup:

@robdrimmie @gadway - Holy Cow! Asynchronous social shopping has been born! Glasses purchased?

@michaellitt @gadway indeed, though the day I find an ecommerce site that allows us all to interact with one shared cart I'm going to hunt it so. much.

Thanks for the comment @jjrichardtang. Here's a custom video recorded with ViewedIt just for you: https://share.viewedit.com/PQC6A...

Hey @jjrichardtang - Thought I'd throw out there that thanks to the ViewedIt Feed in the Chrome extension, I can see 8 people have watched the video I recorded for you. Pretty cool! One of the unique aspects to ViewedIt. Any thoughts on how you'd use these notifications?

@gadway Kurtis said it best. As a PM you often find yourself sharing and point things out to your team and vice versa. This is nearly impossible to do via a phone call and takes away from valuable time that could be spent on solving customer problems. FYI - screen sharing tends to never work reliability via any platform I've used before. I think this will change that for me.

Hey @dandancrisan. Thanks for the comment. Can you elaborate a bit more about how you see yourself being able to use something like this for design demos? What are you using today? Why do you think this would be better?

HI @gadway ! I can totally see myself making some mockups for applications or any UI demos and then upload it to InVision or any wireframe or design presentation tool and then record the flow of interactions (when tap here, this shows up, etc) ... and meanwhile recording this so i can show the flow to more people in a simple intuitive manner.

Great ideas @dandancrisan! I've seen a lot more people using InVision - challenge is, unless you're there live, you miss out on the context and color commentary that comes along with the presentation. Capturing it in a video could be a great way to bring it to life.

@gadway exactly ! Also this is nice opportunity to cross advertise with them ! They're doing this a lot (checkout http://blog.invisionapp.com/invi... from today)

@dandancrisan Great idea. Will take a closer look. Thanks for your support on our launch.