I would love a "Backblaze of user generated content". The existing players in the market are way too expensive (likely because they run off the cloud cartel and

I would love a "Backblaze of user generated content". The existing players in the market are way too expensive (likely because they run off the cloud cartel and pass along their bandwidth tax). Basic image handling isn't too hard to deal with on your own, but video and audio is a huge pain. The uploading (which needs to be fault tolerant and resumable), encoding (which takes a long time), storage (which is large) and playback (which requires a half-dozen different formats) is all very annoying to deal with. So much so, for my SaaS products, I only allow my users to upload images! I had the exact same idea as you, and shelled out a few hundred dollars for a domain from a squatter. My prototype basically reinvents fault tolerant resumable uploads (like tus.io). On the backend, it streams the file to Wasabi and Backblaze. That's as far as I got. Video/audio scares me, but I'll get to it eventually. I really like the content moderation as a service (via AI, or humans) idea that others have mentioned.