Andreas Thiel
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Hi,
mentioned the idea a while back with a focus on brandability and got no feedback (https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/co...ft-solidindie-daredevelop-markupclips.103865/), now I would love to hear some opinions regarding how others feel about the need for what I have in mind.
The starting point for this was technological - I am pretty sure that Headless Chrome (a webbrowser for automation through programming) can be used to create awesome consumer products.
I then realized that videos are somewhat eating the text / audio online world and offer a lot of convenience in many areas. Puppeteer / Headless Chrome has the potential to do pretty much that: turn other content into an image sequence that can be turned into a video.
Now I struggle with the Grade My Business Idea survey (Grade My Business Idea: Business Ideas and Opportunities Rated Fast). An initial take: GradeMyBusinessIdea.com: Information Video Creator (Results)
Basically, I think I could address the following categories of use cases initially with varying degrees of effort / difficulty:
I think that use case might not be powerfull for bootstrapping, but I am not sure.
What do people here think? What would a video creation helper need to be able to do to be interesting at around $5 per month.
I would love to sell a SaaS subscription directly right away. One idea is creating a youtuibe channel for videos created with the SaaS solution to get exposure. Currently I am thinking: "music". For example I could visualize scales or songs on different instruments.
Any input would be awesome, I am currently 100% paralyzed.
My big picture gut feeling is:
mentioned the idea a while back with a focus on brandability and got no feedback (https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/co...ft-solidindie-daredevelop-markupclips.103865/), now I would love to hear some opinions regarding how others feel about the need for what I have in mind.
The starting point for this was technological - I am pretty sure that Headless Chrome (a webbrowser for automation through programming) can be used to create awesome consumer products.
I then realized that videos are somewhat eating the text / audio online world and offer a lot of convenience in many areas. Puppeteer / Headless Chrome has the potential to do pretty much that: turn other content into an image sequence that can be turned into a video.
Now I struggle with the Grade My Business Idea survey (Grade My Business Idea: Business Ideas and Opportunities Rated Fast). An initial take: GradeMyBusinessIdea.com: Information Video Creator (Results)
Basically, I think I could address the following categories of use cases initially with varying degrees of effort / difficulty:
- making something consumable as a video that can currently only be consumed as text or audio (really tricky because of credentials / session handling)
- sharing content / ideas / data that you have as a video or animated images (somewhat tricky because users would want to upload and edit gigabytes of videos)
- creating assets for video creation (very doable)
- Creating slideshows of photos and videos with effects (transitions, blending, magnifying glass, 3d warping etc.)
- Media lanes (images or videos that scroll along a lane, potentially with fancy 3D distortion effects)
- Transparent image sequence export for overlays in other video editing software
- Moving one element over the screen over time (Filmora lacks such a feature and requires you to do that manually)
- A widget editor for HTML to Video, supporting basic HTML tags with CSS layout, but also SVG creation and 2D/3D Canvas
- 3rd party integration (API that allows services to integrate Clypcraft features, but also integrating other APIs) - here data from fitness or weather apps could be aggregated in videos
- Community features (initially users would get their own editors and dashboard, eventually people should be able to publish videos Youtube style). The widget concept could also be created in a way that besides video, the widgets could also be used for blogging, message board and messenger features
- Interactive videos (as an alternative to Powerpoint)
- Making text playable, for example turn an RSS feed article into a video and add speed reading theory (highlight blocks that can be processed at one glance)
- Turn a 3D model into an isometric SVG graphic (might turn out to be tricky)
- Creating skill acquisition videos like for music or language learning (but then I would have to sell a different kind of product, not the video creation solution)
I think that use case might not be powerfull for bootstrapping, but I am not sure.
What do people here think? What would a video creation helper need to be able to do to be interesting at around $5 per month.
I would love to sell a SaaS subscription directly right away. One idea is creating a youtuibe channel for videos created with the SaaS solution to get exposure. Currently I am thinking: "music". For example I could visualize scales or songs on different instruments.
Any input would be awesome, I am currently 100% paralyzed.
My big picture gut feeling is:
- Creating a product for content creators limits the addressable market painfully, but might be a reasonable first step
- Creating a consumer product that many people are interested in that turns something into a video has a lot of potential but is hard to pull off initially
- For some reason I like the idea of offering message boards or a messenger service where users can share (playable) widgets - that seems like a powerful concept
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