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I wonder why everyone seems to get what this does from reading the description. When I read "eat and shit", I assume that the "food" is "transformed" into ... youtube videos. So I thought this would generate new videos and upload them to youtube automatically, maybe showing the txt files as a huge StarWars scroller, or something.


This is also exactly what I thougth (with the starwars scroller and all!), but the website is pretty self explainatory once you visited it and cliqued "enter txt" link.


Yeah, I had uploaded the first 10 chapters of Moby Dick, all along thinking "what is this annoying video playing," before realizing it doesn't do a StarWars scroller.


Sorry. that's me trying to sound cool in 80 characters (minus "Show HN:")


Personally, I could go for less 'cool' on HN and more clarity and accuracy instead.

'Show HN: roll.io plays youtube videos searching list of text. Useful?'

That aside, neat app. It's a clever tagline though.


For this particular link I'm not sure I would have clicked it with the text you suggest. And I'm glad I did click it. But I agree that in the general case, titles on HN should be accurate rather than catchy.


No need to. We prefer quality over wordiness.




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