UWatch

Story

I often receive URLs to funny YouTube videos from colleagues and friends. If I click on one of those, YouTube starts playing it automatically. Before doing so, I'd like to see the context (ie. title) and decide if I really have to watch it or should set it aside.

Goal

UWatch is descriptive link generator for streaming video sites (eg. YouTube). The main goal of the project is to assist users in sharing human-readable link.

Example

Standard URLs don't hold any information about the content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdFHJXciAQ

Long URLs created with UWatch put videos to be shared into context: http://focused-veld-834.appspot.com/5649391675244544/vivaldi---four-seasons--winter-

Future improvement

• Support more video sharing sites like Vimeo, Youku, Rutube, etc.
• List most popular videos on the landing page

Built With

• golang
• html5
• javascript
• jquery