App Feedback: Brisa Videos
Update March 2021:
When I posted this, the app was new and pretty difficult to use. After letting it languish for a while on the Shopify app store, I found a cofounder and we rebranded the app as https://vidds.co!
I've been working on a new app for the past 3 months and wanted to get some feedback.
Pitch: Videos are more important than ever for landing pages, social media and ads. Brisa Videos allows you to create videos in your browser, quickly.
I love what I've been able to accomplish in a short time, and have a lot of ideas of what I need to do, but would love to hear what everyone else thinks!
Also happy to help anyone who wants a video for a landing page or anything else :)
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Question: How did you embed the video on the landing page and get it to autoplay?
The autoplay, oddly, doesn't always work. But it's a feature of HTML:
<video autoplay src="https://static.brisa.io/brisa-land.mp4" controls style="...bunch of inline styles..."></video>
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I think autoplaying with audio is not likely to work (and rightly so, I hate when a tab magically starts blasting audio at me haha).
I really dislike the default video player (esp Chrome's). There are some fancy JS players with nicer controls and styles.
Thanks, so the way you got it to work is to not include any audio? Is yours a Wordpress site?
I noticed that https://asana.com embedded a video in their hero section without the playback controls showing.
I honestly haven't looked into it much. I assumed if you autoplay with audio, it might just start muted. Is that not the case?
Looks like they just didn't set the "controls" flag in the HTML so you don't see them. Can tell by right clicking on it - Chrome shows a "Controls" toggle (also they have the loop toggle set.
It's a static HTML page. No cms or anything (based on an HTML template I found).
Hope that helps :)
Thanks!
Nicely done Andrew!!
First thoughts (as I am a prospective customer of such an app):
Keep it up!
Great feedback! I'll have to make that more clear!
The app is free to use, and then when you want to render the video (which generates an mp4 for you that you can download), you pay based on how long the video is.
There's no video hosting, although that's a definite option I want to explore.
Now to think about how I can clarify that on my landing page!
Feel free to give the app a try. If you create something you like (or want help because it's difficult to use, I can help), I can give you some free render time!
We'll definitely do that!
Side note: If anyone is interested in more of the tech details, and how I managed to build a video app as a solo developer, I wrote a blog post a while back that describes a lot of it.
https://brisa.io/posts/why-how-web-video-editor-2019-10-28.html
That blog post was written about a month after I was toying with the idea. It's a little outdated now - I added a backend to save videos and stuff, and moved the rendering to the backend - but it's still a general idea.