need help building a google chrome extension that uses screencastify api for recording videos to them store on youtube to use as inline comments

Recently Hive account@lloyddavis started a new Hive account@dtube daily thing. It’s super smart of him to get back into ‘video’ making — just pick up the camera and go, it’s much easier than writing and well it’s our native playing field, to just pick it up and record, doing so is actually harder than it sounds so props to him for doing so.

https://steemit.com/dtubedaily/@lloyddavis/364t8mnm <— do check out his @vlogging post about his new daily vlog, I’m with him, I’m just trying to find my way back to it, probably won’t be daily with me mind!

It did get my brain spinning thou and memories started flooding back of the old seesmic days of ‘video conversations’ and how it’s so frustrating that we don’t have inline video comments ability on steemit when you just don’t wanna write you just wanna fire up the camera and speak — which led me to thinking about how that could be done pretty (painlessly I hope) with at least a starting idea of maybe a google chrome extension and some api wizardry with screencastify — they have the bones of what it needs to do.

API | Screencastify Screen Recorder for Chrome

The way I see it is really like the ways that the existing methods work with injecting additional things into the page, I’ve seen it done with giphy so it should be able to be done with the api — the pro package with screencastify is only $24 a year too so it’s actually probably gonna be worth to get that and could be a nice revenue stream for them guys if loads of us started to use it daily, they could get a nice yearly residual.

Sure we could build out our own, with our encoder, maybe decentralised in approach (seriously, who is gonna build the next decentralised VINE!) but that takes time and resources, I’m just acting on what I consider what we could use now to get an MVP up and running.

I could spend months learning about google chrome extensions, then I’ve gotta learn how to call the api in such a way to bring up a recorder box when I hit the red icon that I wanna put in the bottom corner of the chat box area, this would pop up a recorder and I would record my video, then once done I wait until it’s done transcoding on youtube and then it replaces the box with the youtube link which then would be the native way you post youtube urls on steemit - voila! Steemit video comments :)

Currently it’s quite slow with the quality settings I had and I’m guessing we could try and limit the size of the video, speed of transcoding etc so that it feels more native with the way you would normally reply after all nobody wants to wait for transcoding, it’s just a fact of life, but we can alter some quality settings on sound and visuals and still get a decent video reply.

I’m also wondering if the $24 a year gets you access to faster encoding settings compared to the free package, either way it’s worth it and I’ll probably be video replying with video comments from now on and give it a test out, if I can’t find anyone to help I’ll probably put this out as a steemgig or look about getting someone one fiver to help out.

Anybody wanna rally together to build this out with me?