Goddamn, I love me some Instapaper. If you don’t have any Instapaper, go get yourself some. You can get it for your iPhone, iPad, Android, Computer, Kindle, whatever you have. Add some Instapaper to it and life will be good. Go do it, I’ll wait.

The premise is straightforward: Find something that you want to read on the web but don’t want to or can’t invest the full-time right now? Simply Instapaperize that mother fucker and read it later. You can do it on any of those devices above. It is pretty much how I consume my massive collection of RSS feeds - scan them quickly and send anything halfway interesting to Instapaper. Then, when I am walking to the gym, spending quality time with family and friends, whatever, I read those articles I thought I might like when I was drunk and reading RSS.

The problem arises when one of those things I thought was going to be awesome and worth checking out later turns out to be (gasp) a video. Bummer. The thing is, Instapaper is not optimized for video (hence the “paper’). Plus, a lot of videos on the web still use Flash which means even if the time is right to watch a video (lights are low, a little Barry White on the Hi-Fi), and then bam! cock-blocked by Flash and it’s unfriendly relationship with a crap load of mobile technologies.

In reality, reading is different than watching video. It requires a different setting and a dedication of multiple senses. For that reason, I want an App, just like Instapaper, but dedicated to videos. Vimeo actually has a pretty good “save this shit for later functionality” - that’s not what they call it, be smart here, people. The problem is that it is only for Vimeo. I want something browser based that sucks in the embed code and throws the thing in an HTML doohickey and spits out mobile-friendly video. I know, “technically infeasible, blah blah blah”. If it was easy and I wasn’t lazy as hell, I’d do it.

So yeah, this should be pretty straightforward and maybe just required a Twitter toot or something, but you got five paragraphs of fluff just to say, “hey, one of you smart dudes, go build Instapaper, but make it for videos. Thanks”. Maybe someone really smart like Marco will do it.