[ANN] Viewly ∙ A tokenized video platform

[viewly]

Official Website
https://view.ly

Whitepaper
https://view.ly/Whitepaper.pdf

Telegram
https://t.me/viewly

Why Viewly?
We are building a decentralized video platform because we believe
everyone should have the opportunity to share their creative work,
discover their fans and get paid, without corporate middleman,
pesky ads or personal privacy invasion.

Token Sale
TBA (join us on Telegram or sign up on https://view.ly for updates)

Bounty Program
We will be allocating a hefty amount of token supply for the community contributors.
Generic bounties such as translations, bug reports, social media sharing, etc. will be available on https://bounty.view.ly.
For people who would like to join Viewly as community contributors, please reach out to us on Telegram.

Prototype
We have a small prototype app running on top of Steem and IPFS.
Please keep in mind that this is not indicative of what the Viewly product aims to be.
https://alpha.view.ly/

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[salary123]

Sounds a good project, I'm waiting for more information about this project, I'll see this thread a few days ahead, especially information about ICO, hopefully run as a concept, and good luck

[fmiboy]

Very promising project, looking forward to it and token sale news...

[viewly]

Sounds a good project, I'm waiting for more information about this project, I'll see this thread a few days ahead, especially information about ICO, hopefully run as a concept, and good luck

Checking out the Website, Whitepaper and FAQ is a good start.

If you're really interested, join us on Telegram, most non-public resources get shared there (prototype app, token dynamics, etc).

[aitorp6]

Sound interesting, I'm going to read the whitepaper.

I have some doubts about how the videos will be stored...

[talesfromthecrypt]

nice idea , but what a big volume of datas 

[viewly]

Sound interesting, I'm going to read the whitepaper.

I have some doubts about how the videos will be stored...

Check out the WP for storage and CDN proposal.

In a nutshell:

• Publishers pay for storage and CDN
• Professional hosting providers compete for ranking and capacity
• Storage is validated trough proof-of-spacetime (adapted from Filecoin), CDN service is validated trough elected oracles (PoA)
• All of the available data is open, so that all parties can make best decisions possible

[YouShallNotPass]

Nice concept and also this could greatly disrupt the current video streaming industry if properly executed. Good luck on your project.

[rublix]

We know some of the team on a personal level, this will be a great project. 

[erv]

total supply?

[coin_pwr]

Will viewly be its own blockchain or running off EOS/Steem/Eth?

[franss]

Why Viewly?
We are building a decentralized video platform because we believe
everyone should have the opportunity to share their creative work,
discover their fans and get paid, without corporate middleman,
pesky ads or personal privacy invasion.

[/quote]

I agree with this because every one need place to share their creativity and maybe Viewly is the place

[viewly]

Will viewly be its own blockchain or running off EOS/Steem/Eth?

Excellent question.

Originally we planned to build Viewly as a fork of Steem, however the most likely path for the time being is for Viewly to be hosted on an existing chain with large distribution / network effect.
There are some trade-offs here, between liquidity and technical suitability for the problems at hand.


Given the retail nature of the project, the blockchain part needs to be abstracted away from the end user.
So in the end, as long as liquidity and a bridge between conventional means and crypto are in place, it won't matter much.

[Tactical Genius]

Apart from the app being based on blockchain whatelse can  really make you a big time competitor of youtube?

[darkenedsoul]

Can you give us any information on the Token Sale or their use case? I am always willing to invest in a promising project if I can find a way to get my money back. 

[viewly]

are you sure you can compete with youtube?
what is the advantage if using your platform?

I see all the advantages of your platform already on youtube. the only thing I see youtube is just not using blockchain technology and I don't think it's necessary

and if viewed from the amount of traffic youtube seems to be difficult to run your platform

I would encourage you to read the monetization models part of the whitepaper.

The theory behind Viewly is that while ads work reasonably well for celebrities (with millions of viewers), they don't scale as well to most niches, despite the high quality content creators and their loyal viewers.

We are highly focused on this segment, allowing quality content creators to supplement, or perhaps in many cases supersede their YT income.

[ntsdm1]

i was always told---
when you Dream-- Dream Big!
going after youtube's shares is not a really sound approach!

[viewly]

Can you give us any information on the Token Sale or their use case? I am always willing to invest in a promising project if I can find a way to get my money back. 

Monetization models for creators:
 - Private Channels (like Netflix or Spotify)
 - Recurring Patreonage (for perks, status, commerce)
 - Frictionless Micropayments (as an upvote or like)
 - Sponsorships

Token flows:
Businesses -> Content creators
Viewers -> Content Creators
Content Creators -> Decentralized Storage/CDN Providers and Oracles

The token flows need to be tight, to avoid unnecessary market pressure.

There are plenty of tokens above $100M mkt cap with no users, or use cases other than speculation.
We hope to bring crypto to non-technical people, and address the problems in the UGC space that have been bothering us for years.

[viewly]

i was always told---
when you Dream-- Dream Big!
going after youtube's shares is not a really sound approach!

I think the odds of Viewly replacing YouTube are very slim, but that is OK, because the meaningfulness and the size of the creator segment we're targeting is full-filling enough.

[deimus]

I've been following this project (and it's rivals) for a while and I believe Viewly has the greatest chance of success among the decentralized video projects. So far it's the only platform I've found that is both properly decentralized as well as taking steps to combat the major potential downfall of such projects - such as copyright violation.

It remains to be seen whether it can scale to rival the big guns of video, but even if it doesn't it has the potential to provide a much needed home for content creators that don't have thousands of followers.