Feedback/Ideas welcome since these will (soon) be released as open source projects.
https://subatic.com : Cheap/Sustainable open-source youtube alternative. Video hosting on cloudflare R2. (0.36$ / million segments or 2.3 million hours of watch-time per 1$). Transcoding pipeline built in bash/python+ffmpeg.
No ads but business model revolves around arbitraging sponsored segments in videos, which can be targeted to countries and can be rotated as needed.
Other business model is providing hosting/maintaining solution for businesses.
Currently random videos are uploaded but it does showcase different resolutions and the speed to access videos.
Quit/Laxed on this since I achieved my engineering goal of making it end to end work (upload->transcoding->cheap hosting->scalable architecture).
Built this for myself when going through IELTS exam. All other online sites wanted me to go through a human and pay for each response. While a human evaluation is desired for judging accents/pronunciation , this tool can judge your content/body.
Idea for the first one came when a client wanted to host some videos which were to receive very high traffic. Easiest solution was youtube but youtube adds friction. All other hosting platforms wanted for bandwidth or number of hours of streams. Cheapest solution I found was transcoding and hosting on cloudflare R2.
I then went down the rabbit hole of building youtube in the cheapest possible way.
The app is built with api endpoints in mind so a future mobile app can be built in future.
Other use cases : video embedding, personal video storage, corporate training materials, hosting courses.
https://subatic.com : Cheap/Sustainable open-source youtube alternative. Video hosting on cloudflare R2. (0.36$ / million segments or 2.3 million hours of watch-time per 1$). Transcoding pipeline built in bash/python+ffmpeg.
No ads but business model revolves around arbitraging sponsored segments in videos, which can be targeted to countries and can be rotated as needed.
Other business model is providing hosting/maintaining solution for businesses.
Currently random videos are uploaded but it does showcase different resolutions and the speed to access videos.
Quit/Laxed on this since I achieved my engineering goal of making it end to end work (upload->transcoding->cheap hosting->scalable architecture).
https://app.exam.cafe : OpenAI + Deepgram based instant language evaluation.
Built this for myself when going through IELTS exam. All other online sites wanted me to go through a human and pay for each response. While a human evaluation is desired for judging accents/pronunciation , this tool can judge your content/body.