SuTree - a collection of how-to's and video lessons - over 5000 listed already!

Israeli startup SuTree launched their site in Beta earlier this week. The site offers a repository for how-to videos, video lessons and training and tutorial videos. So far they have over 5,000 listed in about twenty categories. What I like is that you can rate and comment on each listing.

Kristen from Mashable noted about their community aspects, "While you can register for a SuTree account, their site could fully operate without this process. There are no user profiles, no way to search by username, and no way to create a playlist from your favorite videos. Bulking out the community aspects of SuTree would help immensely for the service they aim to provide."

I think the site works pretty well but can use the improvements that Kristen notes. For some reason in IE, I also get prompted on each page to install the Hebrew language.

They have pages setup for most popular, newly created and most viewed. These are important elements for a rating site. From an advertising perspective, I think they would probably do better with the Google Adsense if it was either on the right or inside the content.

The key for a site like SuTree is to make sure they have videos in as many categories as possible so users keep coming back. Also, making sure that users vote and comment on the videos is important. My last suggestion is to enable an option so that the video content creator is notified when a SuTree user posts a comment or vote on one of the creator's videos.