so you've basically crowdsourced the job of an interstitial video editor. It's neat as far as it goes, but I don't see myself coming to a site like this for video discovery purposes so I'm uncertain how you will build traction; however, if you can get a sticky user community to take root then it seems sufficiently fun for that community to grow organically. The underlying technology is not difficult for existing vendors to copy so I think your best bet is to focus on the social-hobby aspect. To that end, I'd be inclined to give front-page content a pretty short half-life: when I see multiple months-old memes on the front page, my reaction as a casual consumer is that it's a me-too site. Make old favorites easily findable, but your front page needs to be baked fresh every morning.
so you've basically crowdsourced the job of an interstitial video editor. It's neat as far as it goes, but I don't see myself coming to a site like this for video discovery purposes so I'm uncertain how you will build traction; however, if you can get a sticky user community to take root then it seems sufficiently fun for that community to grow organically. The underlying technology is not difficult for existing vendors to copy so I think your best bet is to focus on the social-hobby aspect. To that end, I'd be inclined to give front-page content a pretty short half-life: when I see multiple months-old memes on the front page, my reaction as a casual consumer is that it's a me-too site. Make old favorites easily findable, but your front page needs to be baked fresh every morning.