Worthless idea? Need help with direction
I really like youtube videos for finding out how to do stuff, and I think there are awesome classes for learning a bunch of stuff online, but sometimes youtube is hard place to find what you are looking for. I would like to "index" youtube so you can find videos by the concept they teach.
For example maybe a youtube video like "Harvard Math 101 lecture 4," could be indexed by the concept like "integrals." So you could find videos by concept by tagging them by their concepts.
Is this a bad idea? I would like it to remain free for public use. I like it, but it feels too ambitious to be of any worth to anyone. I'm not sure how I would make money, at least at the beginning.
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Blake, what would be your business model? How would you make money?
There is always value in curation, especially today with so much new content being created (and a lot of bad content that causes noise).
One of the biggest obstacles in achieving this are going to be
curating the actual content, this is time consuming and figuring out the right way to categories it will cause a bit of paralysis analysis (so many options).
keeping that same content updated. As with most things, content gets old fast, so keeping it up to date so it maintains it's value is time consuming as well.
Done well, there is definitely value. Good luck.
I plan on it being something that people submit and the communities keep the most relevant content at the top. Sort of reddit-ish, but more long-living. I don't plan on generating the content (maybe initially I will), but building a way for the communities to curate that content.
I have not noticed this problem, but perhaps your idea would have resulted in even more video options to learn from, so it sounds like it could be useful. Youtube does have a subtitles file for each (or at least most) videos that you can download and analyze if you wanted something automated.
To evaluate the idea quickly, you need to find out how many people have this problem. Ask friends, family, colleagues, and post on websites and forums to see what people say. If it is positive, send me a message and we can talk about next steps.
Why do you think youtube hasn't done it?
There is a chance that youtube could implement something similar in the future, which would kill your idea, so there is an element of risk.
Well I think if you index videos based on their concepts, you could eventually replace online individual lectures. If you have a voting system on top of that, you could potentially have a way of finding the best lectures for any given topic. If you have a course system on top of that you can start competing with university lectures. Lastly if you implement some sort of credentialing ie tests, (which is where money can be made), then it could compete with schools.
I think my ambitions are too high, and I'm not sure the small gains are worth it. Delivering the whole thing at once could be valuable, but that is too much I think for me alone to tackle.
That is a good way of putting it, you have clearly thought it through. I am warming up to the idea. Free education for everyone sounds like a good message.
Its good to be ambitious, but yes you are right it would be quite a big project to take on, and getting people away from youtube is going to be difficult.
You could make money with ads, or link in a tutor system and take a cut. I am sure there are a few options to consider.
I don't intend on competing with youtube, but leveraging it. It might even help certain types of youtubers get discovered. I am just thinking of the first instance of this thing to get started. Something useful, but not the whole hog.
I find this idea interesting. The value would be in user voting within a subject (vs. youtube automated recommendations and voting for individual videos). You could give it a try with a subject that you know well, create a landing page for that, see how the community reacts. Something like 'best nodejs courses', just as an example
I guess a good way to start once you have validated people are interested is to manually index a bunch of videos and create some courses. Might be worth going to udemy or other online learning resource and find the most popular courses and try and create a youtube version. Then create a simple website, search google for "online course website template" and alter something to save you time. I would do the minimum you can to validate that people will use this, otherwise, you might be wasting your time.
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