This looks awesome, any thoughts on making this automated?
Here’s a similar product I ran into here a while ago that uses the info in the other meta tags (title, description) to automate the creation of these images: https://www.mugshotbot.com/
I also built something similar called Thumblink, which takes a screenshot of the page to create these images: https://thumblink.com
There were a lot of features that I did not build because it would take more than a week. I think automation will be important once I get a steady amount of users.
I started working on Thumblink while trying to generate link thumbnails for a past project.
Most websites don't configure link thumbnails, which usually results in ugly links. Thumblink handles the creation of thumbnails and configuration in one HTML tag. The generated thumbnail is a screenshot of the page, giving potential visitors a taste of your website before they visit.
Do you have any info about what it's called or how it's used? I'm surprised ESPN doesn't have a clickable video link for their play by play for example. NBA has it for league pass holders, but they also don't offer it in real time, which to me defeats the purpose. I want to see and share a video of something that just happened, not only forced by having to wait until after someone else covered it in a highlight.
Hey HN - we built Clips.live since we wanted to share clips of NBA plays as soon as they happen. Before this, you had to make these clips yourself or wait until someone manually made them in order to share them. Eventually, we want to record and index every play of every live sports game.
Did you invest in time to check if you are free to publish clips, especially with "clips.live" as a watermark. I once did the same in another sport, cricket, back in 2013, ended up killing it because of a cricket board and its broadcasting violations note over an email.
Copying from one of my responses to the same concern:
"Highlights / clips are probably less of a concern, but definitely still a concern. Adam Silver has said "The way we look at it: we’re incredibly protective of our live game rights, but for the most part, highlights are marketing" https://www.sporttechie.com/adam-silver-against-suing-nba-hi....
We also think that NBA itself, ESPN, and BleacherReport can benefit from this technology. There are a lot of potential use cases we think that can be unlocked with this. Right now we're going the consumer route first where they can see live clips, but we can see ourselves potentially working with one of the bigger players if they see value in this.
Unsure why ICC was involved in your case. Mine was pretty much with BCCI and Sony, (the channel which owned broadcasting rights of IPL at that time). They pretty much had a very neat clause, which I should have taken a note upfront, nevertheless, the experience gained confidence in me to build applications. :)
Hey small UI feedback, placing the scores under the appropriate teams would make it easier to know which is which. At the moment, the score is on the left side of the screen so difficult to tell.
We think during a game seeing the latest play is more important because that's more likely the one you want to share, but a jump to the end link makes a lot of sense, especially for post game like now. Thanks for the feedback!
Sorry for the lack of clarity - only the user typing “assist” needs to have a subscription. We host publicly accessible tunnels so that this works wherever you are.
I’ll clarify the subscription details on the site - thanks!
While that works well on the same network, Assist uses a publicly accessible tunnel to allow connections from the internet, regardless of wherever you are / local network configuration.
You may also want to consider allowing the user to specify whether the default is read-only mode or read/write. In similar applications such as http://join.me, the default behavior is similar to a read-only mode.
Here’s a similar product I ran into here a while ago that uses the info in the other meta tags (title, description) to automate the creation of these images: https://www.mugshotbot.com/
I also built something similar called Thumblink, which takes a screenshot of the page to create these images: https://thumblink.com