@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?
@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.
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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. :)
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I'm going to use this like, five times every day to run interface changes and updates past clients "Hey $foo, what do you think about this behaviour?"
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.
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@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?
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@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.
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Added to Chrome! Love this product and what a perfect timing as I was looking for such product. Congrats @michaellitt and the team at Vidyard. Will there be a way to download the video file or even better a trimming feature if I want to edit the beginning or the end of a recording?
@pedram92d@michaellitt thanks for downloading ViewedIt, Pedram! We are certainly looking into providing more features in the future to make it easier for you to make awesome videos. What would you do with the video file after downloading? What are you planning to use ViewedIt for? :)
@antoneliasson@pedram92d@michaellitt Hey Anton! You can already paste ViewedIt videos as links. Would that work for you? Download functionality is something we're considering - stay tuned!
I have followed Vidyard’s journey since their time in YC. They are the pioneers of video marketing and are on a mission to bring video to everyone and advance the way businesses communicate.
Today they are launching ViewedIt and I am excited to share what the Vidyard team has built.
And I just made this video using it. Pretty nifty.
https://share.viewedit.com/QiFBk...
@alexisohanian - thanks a sweet, maple syrup covered, metric tonne for posting. This is a huge launch day for the team and represents a big step in our vision to create software that enables "Video for All" - everyone is super grateful!
A little backstory on Vidyard:
We came out of YC in Summer, 2011 and have since been building products that help marketers, sellers, supporters and leaders communicate with their audiences via our favourite medium, video.
Many of the products we've built serve the complex needs of Fortune 100's. In the past year or so, we've simplified many of our offerings to make our technology available to smaller businesses and inevitably, individual users.
Video should be accessible by all & @Viewed_It is one of the first products we're launching that helps us realize that vision.
Will be lurking to answer any questions as they come up, thanks for taking a look!
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@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?
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@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.
This is fantastic! Congrats to the whole Vidyard team. What are some of the ways you anticipate people to use ViewedIt?
At Keen, we've been piling up a back-log of interactive demos and how-to guides due to a lack of great video recording software. We often use GoToWebinar for live broadcasting/recordings and I'm so excited for our team to try ViewedIt this. Will Vidyard power live broadcasts in the future? ;)
Also, someone mentioned using this to give product feedback vs. annotating pdfs. This is brilliant! As a PM, I'm constantly taking screenshots of a workflow and annotating pdfs for our engineers. Excited to try this out as an internal communication tool. Great work everyone!
Thanks @alexakmeyer!
Some of the awesome ways to use ViewedIt are for product demos, prospecting videos, how-to guides, bug reports, design walkthroughs, etc. We ourselves used ViewedIt to report bugs during the testing phase of the product and it was incredibly helpful. There are so many more use cases for various different roles and we are excited to see what new ones users come up with!
To your second comment, Vidyard actually already has a live streaming product that you can check out here https://www.vidyard.com/platform...!
Happy recording, and let me know if you have any other questions :)
Proud to see Canadians launching awesome stuff. Recently had to use Quicktime to solve this problem and the UX isn't nearly as VIewedit.
Will you ever be charging for this?
@ngardideh Hi Nima - thanks for the compliment, looking forward to seeing what you create.
No we will not be charging for ViewedIt. Perhaps in the future we may build a pro version with expanded functionality, but right now the go to market is more focussed on the enterprise platform in Vidyard.
The functionality you see today including unlimited videos, 60min recording length, screen tab and camera capture, viewer notifications, etc. will all remain free.
@ngardideh, right now we’re focused on building the best and easiest screen, webcam and voice recording tool to allow lots of users to create/share fantastic videos. We are really looking forward to learning from our users so we can choose the best direction for the product.
We don't want price to be a factor preventing people from realizing the potential of Video. For more on our thinking behind ViewedIt checkout:
https://medium.com/@devongall/ht...
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