I think this product is way overdue for how ubiquitous video has become, even pre-social distancing. Scrubbing through lengths of video to find the relevant clip is such a pain.

I'm digging the integration features, e.g. slack, imessage

I feel like this is one of those tools that will end up being used in ways not initially planned. Meme generation and reaction videos perhaps, lol.

Good luck Grain team!

Thanks! We think so too.

We actually spent 9 months building a prior version of Grain that was basically a Google Doc w/ Zoom integration & time stamps. Ultimately, we threw that version away (kill your darlings as they say). People told us that what you described was the bigger problem b/c it was too much work to unlock a stream of recorded video w/ traditional post-hoc video editing tools.

But if it's easy enough to break the best content down into just the good parts that live on their own, independent of the parent recording file... well that unlocks some interesting things you can do to combine those blocks and share them in feeds w/ teams.

But it all comes down the the quality of the content you make with the tool. So that's where we're focused first.

Really liking the integration with Notion.

Thanks. We do to.

We use Notion like crazy internally so it was at the top of our priority list along with Slack. I probably paste 80% of my links into Slack... it's magical b/c people just watch, get the context and then discuss... I hate information dumping and Grain + Slack saves me tons of time to share video highlights instead and they work better anyway b/c it preserves the context and richness of the original video (with voice, tone, facial expressions, screenshare content, etc.). All of those get lost when trying to summarize a video call to info transfer to someone else.

I find myself pasting Grain highlights in Notion when I'm doing more analytical work that I want to be supported by rich media/evidence and become a source of reference/documentation. Think highlight reels.