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This. You would need to be capable of not just hosting but providing convincing playback experience to end users.

• root_axis 5y ago
  Right... those are the things they are paying for...
  • ryanbrunner 5y ago
    Building this with freelancers for an independent content creator has basically zero chance of being profitable in the end. There's a reason that the notion of an "independent video content creator" didn't really exist until YouTube existed - it's prohibitively expensive for every content creator to develop their own version of YouTube. Not to mention that you need to deal with payment (or at least gating) and subscription management if you're not using other platforms.
    • root_axis 5y ago
      First, the suggestion isn't that artists "build their own YouTube" any more than writers hosting their own blog are "building their own medium.com". A lot has changed since the debut of YouTube, the tech stack necessary to host your own HD videos is open source and really quite simple for an experienced developer. ffmpeg, nginx (with a couple plugins) and one of the many open source web player clients and you're all set. Payments and subscriptions are a long solved problem via stripe or paypal, it's really not a massive endeavor. Most of the work would be on the aesthetic side, not the technical side.
• Schroedingersat 5y ago
  So any http server capable of delivering the bandwidth and a <video> element? Video isn't particularly latency sensitive so no need for edge nodes right by them. One of the many reasonably priced s3 compatable services would work.