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OP here. Definitely one on the "dumb project" list -- total effort to create this was no more than a weekend's time. Just thought it's be neat/funny to have a Y
by godot 11y ago
OP here.
Definitely one on the "dumb project" list -- total effort to create this was no more than a weekend's time. Just thought it's be neat/funny to have a YouTube site specifically designed for viewing vertical videos -- since those are popular nowadays with smart phones.
There is no feature on this that YouTube doesn't have, other than the video player being shaped for vertical videos.
Uses YouTube API for the video player, of course. There's not much of a backend to speak of. The only job the backend code has to do is to read the video id, and load the thumbnail image and put it into meta/link tags for proper social sharing thumbnails.
- godot 11y agoBit more tech notes: DigitalOcean micro server, CloudFlare to handle burst traffic (in case any comes in), Google Analytics for stats, and a basic Redis setup to record every video people watched on this in a Set and a Hash, so in the future I could create a "Other Popular Tall Videos" widget.