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I'm starting building a Youtube alternative
submitted 4 years ago by Justin from self.whatever
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[–]Justin[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (9 children)
I'm going to attempt to self fund it initially. Since there will be consistent income from subscribers each month, I won't have to deal with finding advertising partners, waiting on receiving money from them to split up, and so on. It's a bit more streamlined having a subscription model instead.
[–]SteveTafe 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
I love the idea, if I'd fund u if I could. Good luck man, post a link if u can.
[–]Justin[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
Absolutely, will do. Thank you for the support as well
[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (6 children)
If you get it working maybe your site and saidit can partner up to help each other out. More video sites are desperately needed
[–]Justin[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (5 children)
They're in criminally short supply. I figured vid.me was going to be a serious contender but they had to throw in the towel unfortunately.
[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (4 children)
It's just so expensive to have so many servers and so much bandwidth and so much storage space. Few can do it, especially few start-ups. But maybe as tech gets better over the years it'll become cheaper to start a new video website, so we've got that going for us at least.
[–]Justin[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (3 children)
One of the CDNs I'm looking at is Cloudflare Stream, https://www.cloudflare.com/products/stream-delivery/. For example with bandwidth, they charge a flat rate of $1 per thousand minutes streamed. If that is 1080p content at 2MBps, that's 120GB of content With KeyCDN, that would be $1.20 in bandwidth costs at their best pricing tier. With Cloudfront, it's $2.40 for that same amount of bandwidth and at their best pricing tier once you're already pushing 5 petabytes a month. Another advantage to Cloudflare is that they also handle the storage and the encoding as well. Those three alone take a huge chunk of the infrastructure responsibilities off of my plate so I would be able to scale up considerably cheaper.
[–]Chipit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
Cloudflare can and will cut you off if they don't like your politics. That's one reason why this video hosting is so hard - you have to be as rugged and resistant to attack as possible. That means doing it yourself, or doing it in some other country.
[–]Justin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
True, that's something that's crossed my mind. However I don't plan on going after content that could possibly fall under what they may terminate me for, so I think I will be pretty insulated from that.
[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
So then it'll be content we can get from anywhere else? Why bother then? You cost money while Youtube is free.
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[–]Justin[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - (3 children)
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