🎬 Call for a community promo video — 60–120 s, credits, no money

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🎬 Call for a community promo video — 60 to 120 seconds

EverShelf has a demo, a wiki and screenshots, and no video. It also has no budget: this
project is free, self-hosted and ad-free, and it will stay that way. So this is not a paid
commission and not a lottery — it is a call for one short promo video, made by somebody
who actually uses EverShelf, chosen by the people who use EverShelf.

You keep the credit. The community picks the winner. Nobody is paid, me included.

Two tracks — you can enter both

Track	What it is	Length
A — Promo	The video that goes in the README and on the website homepage	60–120 s
B — README clip	A tight screen capture (or a GIF) of one flow, to live next to the demo GIF	20–40 s

Track B closes #69 — the standing “add a
video walkthrough to the README” issue — and it is a completely legitimate way to take part:
one evening of screen recording, no script, no voiceover. It is also the track most people can
actually finish, so if you only have two hours, pick B.

Hard requirements (both tracks)

• Length: A 60–120 s, B 20–40 s. Outside the range it is not eligible — the whole point is
  a video people watch to the end.
• Picture: 1920×1080 or larger, 16:9, MP4 (H.264) or a host that serves it. A 30 s vertical
  cut is welcome as a bonus, never as a substitute.
• Subtitles: English, burned in or as a .srt next to the file. Sound is optional — please
  do not rely on a voiceover alone, a lot of people watch muted.
• The real app. Record your own instance or the public demo
  (https://evershelf.site/demo). Screenshots animated in a browser window are fine too; the UI
  must be recognisable, and no feature that does not exist.
• Show the everyday loop, in whatever order tells the story best: scan / add a product →
  pantry with locations and expiries → “what can I cook” / AI recipe → shopping list → the point
  of the whole project: less waste.
• Say the four things, on screen or in voice: free, open source (MIT),
  self-hosted, no ads and no subscription. Then where to find it: the repo URL and
  https://evershelf.site.
• Credit card: an opening or closing card with your name or handle.

Rights — read this one twice

The video must be completely free of third-party rights. Concretely:

• You own every frame, image and audio asset. Music: your own, CC0, or royalty-free with the
  licence and the source listed in your submission. No commercial tracks, no “I found it on
  YouTube”.
• No third-party logos, names or footage that could suggest an endorsement — not the brands of
  the products on screen, not Bring!, Google or Home Assistant, and no recognisable person
  without their permission.
• No personal data in frame: real names, addresses, receipts, phone numbers, API tokens or the
  pairing code.
• Licence of the deliverable: CC BY 4.0. You keep the copyright and you are credited every
  time it is used; EverShelf may host, publish, cut and re-upload it (README, website, release
  notes, social), always with attribution. One sentence in your submission is enough:
  “I release this video under CC BY 4.0.”

How to submit

Comment in this discussion with:

1. Title of the video and the track (A or B);
2. a link — unlisted YouTube, Drive, or a GitHub Release asset (Discussions cannot host
   video files);
3. one line on what it shows;
4. the asset and licence list (music, fonts, stock footage);
5. the CC BY 4.0 sentence above.

You can edit your comment until the deadline. One entry per person per track.

How the winner is chosen

1. The shortlist is about validity only: length, rights, app visible, the four claims
   present. Not taste, not editing skill.
2. Then a public poll (Discussions → Polls) over the shortlisted entries, one vote per
   account. I do not vote.
3. Tie: I break it and I say so publicly.
4. Fewer than 3 valid entries: no winner — every valid entry gets published with credit.
   This is written here in advance so that nobody feels cheated afterwards.

What the winner gets — and what every shortlisted entry gets

• The video embedded in the README and on the website, plus a named credit in both.
• A “featured creator” line in the release notes of the version that ships it.
• Every shortlisted entry may be used by the project with credit, even if it did not win.
• No money. There is no budget and there will not be one — I would rather say it now than
  waste your evening.

Timeline

When	What
Now → 2026-11-30, 23:59 UTC	Submissions in this thread
2026-12-01 → 2026-12-08	Community poll
With the next release	Winner announced, video in the README

Material you can use

• Brand assets: assets/img/logo/
  (PNG with and without transparency, 192/512 icons, maskable variants) and
  assets/img/social_preview.png.
• Screenshots — dashboard, inventory, barcode scanner, recipes, cooking mode, AI chat, shopping
  list, predictions:
  assets/img/screenshots/.
• Live demo, nothing to install: https://evershelf.site/demo — or docker compose up from the
  README.

Questions about the rules, the licence, or “is my idea eligible?” — ask here before you
record. And if you know someone who edits video for fun, send them this link.