As some of you may have heard, our friends (and investors) over at Y Combinator announced yesterday that they would like to get applications from startups building on the Justin.tv API. Well, we agree, and we want to help. Any Y Combinator startup working with our API will get direct access to our founders and engineering team to make sure you have all the support and features that you need. Pretty good, right? Well, maybe that's not enough, so we put together a list of ideas to kickstart your brainstorming.
These are part of a list we made a couple months ago while thinking about what we'd ultimately like to see people do with our API. Thanks to Paul, Jessica and the rest of the YC crew for helping us out. Now, on with the list...
- Hardware broadcaster for video game console inputs - We get a ton of gaming broadcasts on Justin.tv, but it's hard to do. Maybe you can make it easier.
- Customer service application - Ever wanted to yell--err, calmly request assistance - face to face from that CS rep on the phone? We have.
- Professional services - Taxes, legal advice, etc. Sometimes you want to see a real person, but you don't want to leave your house.
- Video dating - Match.com and Eharmony leave out a lot of information. Some people have noticed but they're not using live video yet, seems like that would solve the problem.
- Remote education - We've occasionally stayed up late watching obscure lectures online. Wouldn't it be more fun if you could interact in real time?
- Preview a business - Anyone who's waited patiently for a Shack Burger or wondered if a particular item is in stock can appreciate the value of seeing a business from your couch.
- Real interactive gaming - Trash talking is fun. Trash talking to someone's face is more fun. I'd like to watch you cry while I beat you in Heyzap games.
- Presentations - Anyone ever use WebEx? Ever use it a second time? Yea, neither have we. Make it better with live video.
- Real "video" games - Make a game that responds to actual movement on camera that you can play across the web
Hopefully that gets you started. We'd love to hear any other ideas if you have them. Let us know what we can do to help.
2 comments:
Along the same lines as the WebEx idea, CISCO has all this conferencing software that's hard to set up with multiple callers and what not. Why not make something that makes video conferencing simple, provides file-sharing access right though the video console, and allows content switching for presentations?
justin.tv thax for all the fun u give us. i have some ideas why dont u use talkshoe.com for audio conference is great and simple. and support playcafe.com to see it back here in jtv thax.
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