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Vanhackathon 2019 | CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE VIDEO MAKER

Demo: https://create-your-own-adventure-01.netlify.com/

How to use

  • Enter basic info and a valid video URL
  • Scrub through timeline and click paper icon to insert a question
  • Enter question
  • Click on green view button on upper right to view interactive video - it appears only if there's atleast one question

Technologies

  • React 16
  • Firebase

Use Cases

  • Creator enters YT link, Title, and Description
  • Creator scrubs through timeline and chooses a part where to insert prompt
  • Creator upon click on the timeline opens a question composer
  • Creator enters her/his questions
  • Creatpr views interactive video
  • Creator gets code for embed

Basic Specs

  • Should work with videos hosted on site like Wistia or Youtube
  • Should allow creators to prompt viewers with a question
  • Prompt should be possible at any video time specified by the creator
  • Prompt should allow space for a question, and between 2 and 6 text responses
  • For each response, the behavior can be to resume playback, or link to another URL
  • Prompt and responses overlaid on video.
  • The interactive video link can be embedded into another page using HTML and a simple URL

Stretch Specs

  • Custom design (positioning, images for options)
  • Collect an email to keep playing the video
  • Tweet/share on facebook/linked in to continue playing video
  • Allow responses to trigger files downloads (.pdf, .txt, .xls)
  • Creator can see results of which responses people choose
  • Show the results of polls to viewers after they select a response
  • Anything else that makes it fun and engaging

Next Steps

  • Use state management like Redux or Context
  • Validations
  • MORE Test Cases!!!!
  • Improve usability
  • Improve navigation

Challenges

  1. Use YT in a HTML5 video tag
  2. Interact with YT IFRAME API
  3. Create YT Player component
  4. Handle 2 formats YT and Wistia
  5. Learn controls to play, pause, stop, replay, go to

How to use

  • Fork the repo
  • Install packages
npm install
  • Start project
npm start
  • Build project
npm run build

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My entry for the Vanhackathon 2019 for Thinkific

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