We launched our labor of love VineViewer (a Vine video search engine) to the public one week ago now. It's been an exciting seven days, so I wanted to provide an update on our web app.
Since roll-out, our development partner Firefall Pro has been killing it with feature updates and stability optimizations. Now each Vine video has its own "card" which includes a link to the video post's original Vine post page as well as the shared Twitter post page. You can search for multiple keywords at once, and search results now have unlimited scrolling. Videos fail much less often, but when they do, we serve a nice error graphic instead of a 404 page. There's a new "about" message that appears when you roll over the corner plus (+) graphic. And the design is a lot cleaner overall.
We've gotten some pretty awesome coverage in the press:
- A full article in FastCompany Co.Create
- Featured on AdAge: Creativity
- Bylines in Business Insider and Media Bistro: AgencySpy
- Listing in AdAge's Ad Critic Top 20
And most of all, people seem to really enjoy using it. Over 2,600 people have used the app so far, to search for everything from video game clips to peeks at the winter storm Nemo. And the average visit duration is climbing to now over 3 minutes per visit (amazing, considering Vines are 6 seconds).
I hope VineViewer grows as a part of the Vine community. We'll be thinking about ways to make it more useful. In the meantime, continue to share it, and let us know what you think.
