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Ask HN: Substack for Videos?
People host their blogs independently so that they can be sheltered from Big Tech Influence. Given that Youtube has increasingly taken non-creator friendly decisions, Are there any companies doing this for Videos as well?
Edit: Not the other aggregator sites like Vimeo, Dailymotion but which only provides the software to self host.
- smoldesu 3y agoI don't think Substack counts as "hosting [your] blogs independently". > Are there any companies doing this for Videos as well? There were a few; Vimeo, Dailymotion, Floatplane, Nebula... they all suffered the same fate though. It's not hard to see why, either. Transcoding video is expensive. To deliver a YouTube-like experience you have to be certain that each user will be profitable somehow, something that is easy with ads but hard with any other model.
- prakhar897 3y agoYou can add your own domain to substack if you want. Currently, nobody opts-in for it.
- smoldesu 3y agoThat is not independent hosting. Substack still hosts and controls all of your data even if you use a custom domain name.
- PaulHoule 3y agoAMZN has a video hosting solution built into the CloudFront CDN, as a programmer it looks pretty easy to use but I think the average muggle would be perplexed by it. It’s kinda expensive but any honest (not YouTube) solution is going to require you to have a real answer for “where is the money going to come from?”
- IronWolve 3y agoLocals or Substack with Rumble backend for videos seems to be an alternative.
- nathants 3y agohere is a video served from cloudflare worker+r2. lines of code to serve this is probably 100. free for small usage, typical cloudflare fees for large usage. very reasonable either way. https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/only_up.mp4 https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/only_up.mp4