Show HN: Spottr: Ctrl+F for Videos (usespottr.com)

Spottr, a Show HN project, promises a "Ctrl+F for videos": drop a video file, type a natural‑language query, and the app scans the whole file to return exact moments, timestamps and clips. It targets use cases from highlight reels and editing (find reactions, dance moves, perfect soundbites) to security and legal workflows (locate incidents, statements in depositions, body‑cam events), plus medical review, wildlife monitoring, sports analysis, manufacturing defect detection and real estate searches. A freemium tier ($0) is available for trial, $29 for professionals and custom pricing for teams. Technically, Spottr appears to combine multimodal AI building blocks — speech transcription, scene/shot segmentation, face and object detection, action/emotion recognition, tracking and dense temporal indexing — to produce searchable embeddings that map natural‑language queries to precise timestamps and clips. That architecture can dramatically reduce manual scrubbing, accelerate evidence review, editing and training workflows, and enable analytics (counts, patterns, player tracking). Important implications include dependence on model accuracy (false positives/negatives), privacy/hosting choices (local vs cloud processing), and scaling for long or high‑resolution footage; these will determine suitability for sensitive domains like legal and medical use. Overall, Spottr highlights practical, cross‑domain value from applying multimodal search to video archives.