Show HN: Scenestamps – A website for sharing movie scenes with timestamps

json_bourne_ | 72 points

I launched something very similar ~5 years ago! The site is long gone, but there's some screenshots here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/spoiled-tv

Good luck! My goal was to be a sort of "Rap Genius" for movies and TV shows, but unfortunately, I couldn't really figure out the business angle, and my traffic was abysmal, so I had to shut it down. If you care to, you can see my old pitch deck here[1].

[1] https://dvt.name/secret/ucla/spoiled-deck-pitch.pdf

dvt | 11 days ago

What's the timestamp relative to?

Depending on the origin, the same movie/episode may have different lengths for things like opening credits or "previously on ..." shorts

aradaelli | 12 days ago

Nice idea for a very niche audience.

I was wondering Since all movies have subtitles, can't this be done if you give gpt4/chatgpt the whole subtitles and ask it to identify identify the start and stop time in the above subtitles where "The President of the United States meets the X-Men, as they try to convince him to work together against the growing mutant threat". Just a thought.

superasn | 12 days ago

Just a heads up, I'd recommend you to post this one again as a "Show HN:" with the url in the url field (links in text submissions are not clickable), this may get more traction than the current post.

SushiHippie | 12 days ago

Hey, why not allow adding of screen grab of the movie? I think thats fair use...

I personally would love a site like this where you can also search for cinematographically beautiful frames/scenes.

seper8 | 11 days ago

Great idea. Would it be possible to add links? That way people creating the timestamps could link to YouTube clips that contain the scene with the t= property. Perhaps link multiple.

1123581321 | 11 days ago

The homepage has a lot of spoilers for recent TV shows (x-men 97) and recent films, so be careful browsing.

101008 | 11 days ago

Username checks out.

I wonder is the timestamp canonical? I.e. will it vary based on what crap the streaming service might prefix it with or regional release differences?

datascienced | 10 days ago
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thejazzman | 11 days ago

Odd choice to host a collection of obviously copyrighted material - knowingly uploaded by non-copyright holders... I'm all for fan-created works, but this isn't that.

lurn_mor | 12 days ago