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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by vishalzone2002 »

tombert wrote: post #10
leaveyou wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what infrastructure youtube has, but I work in the same building with another known "youtube clone" from Europe and they are spread on 7-8 floors and have a lot of remote infrastructure. (serious question) How can you realistically compete in this area with a basic youtube clone ? From my point of view, the infrastructure and operational costs dwarf the development costs.

The nice thing (at least from my admittedly-fairly-ad-hoc experience) about video processing is that it scales fairly linearly, at least for the basic features. Things like building a scalable transcoding cluster can be made fairly simple ("just add more boxes") using a decent message-queue service. From there, everything is pretty simple HTTP. Of course, this is only the very barebones stuff, and covering all of You…

I work on data science. I also had an idea around youtube. Want to have a chat?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by makeee »

http://imgfave.com - YC company. 100k daily pageviews.

http://backerpass.com - Monthly funding platform for artists and creators. ~$200/month currently going to creators.

http://followfridayapp.com - Web, iOS, Android. Doesn't work currently because Instagram restricted their API. Could be rebranded into an app focused on selecting your own photos (something like 2016bestnine.com).

http://facebook.com/youtubesearchbot - Messenger bot with 25 daily active users. Yeah not a lot, but could be grown if you have another bot to cross-promote with.

Contact info in profile.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by scandox »

_swfb wrote: post #2

I built a basic YouTube clone in Erlang that I currently only use in my home network. I've often wondered how much I could make if I came up with some flashy logo and name and tried to monetize it.

I know of at least one film production and distribution company that would like to have their own video platform, but got quoted huge up front costs by web devs who don't really know video anyway.

The key to selling this though is to be able to customize to their needs, provide support and SLAs etc...

Hard work in all likelihood.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

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Post by _swfb »

vishalzone2002 wrote: post #23
tombert wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The nice thing (at least from my admittedly-fairly-ad-hoc experience) about video processing is that it scales fairly linearly, at least for the basic features. Things like building a scalable transcoding cluster can be made fairly simple ("just add more boxes") using a decent message-queue service. From there, everything is pretty simple HTTP. Of course, this is only the very barebones stuff, and covering all of You…

I work on data science. I also had an idea around youtube. Want to have a chat?

Sure, you can email me at [email-redacted] (yes, really).
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