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by mayeaux 7y ago
No I'm talking about being flagged here on HN, sorry if that wasn't clear. And I apologize but the first few times the post didn't get any traction (really due to the Readme being very sparse). But last time I posted with a n
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Ask HN: Why'd a post about my personal OSS project trending #1 on GH get flagged
1 points by mayeaux 7y ago|7 comments
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Hi bavell thanks for the feedback. The codebase itself is pretty robust in my opinion but the documentation it sparse at the moment, it's still very much in its infancy as an OS project, I mean a bunch of really cool features that are
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Thanks for the support! If you hop in the Discord I can take a look at some of those things with you, the profile pics not working is a known bug with the B2 implementation, meant to get it done yesterday but the site's been going pret
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by mayeaux 7y ago
I don't mind if someone forks NodeTube and has a more permissive TOS but for this main node I want it to be pretty family friendly yknow just because it's really a proof of concept for the devs of the world at the moment a bit mor
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by mayeaux 7y ago
The ideal thing would be a way where you can load 'credits' onto your app and then reward them to creators, very similar to Sparks/Subs on Twitch. If you can get that into a media hosting platform you're golden.
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by mayeaux 7y ago
My honest opinion is yes. Look at how disliked the Rewind videos are, or how much flack YouTube gets on Twitter. Susan Wojicki is not looked on with much fan fare.
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Yeah this is still a side project for me, I would only move to work on it full-time if it was already profitable/generating enough value for me that it would make sense. But I don't see myself giving this project up anytime soon I
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by mayeaux 7y ago
I'd definitely be interested in reading that.
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Heroku has an ephemeral filesystem I'm not sure how you would really serve content from Heroku. Better is to use a service like BackBlaze to host. 2000 GB -> 20$/month using their service.
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by mayeaux 7y ago
The response I've gotten to this project has been incredible, it just needs to get in front of enough eyes where the OS community behind it grows a bit and we get several instances up. The code is bomb, it will go viral with some eyeba
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Currently NT instances are not joined together but that is a planned feature using the Fediverse and ActivityPub. Probably the best place to find info is the Github if you scroll down to features, or to ask me in the Discord (also linked on
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Did you see the comment I left? Porn is actually against the TOS, and this instance itself is going to be SFW only by the end of the night, just a heads up.
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by mayeaux 7y ago
You could use WebTorrent which is P2P in the browser, the issue is exposing people's public IP addresses which I really don't like, so I would never run it in prod unless it was a user opt-in, but not a big priority for me at the
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Have also used OVH before, awesome company and great value.
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Honestly though there's something to be said for an up and coming platform. I mean I just uploaded some stupid video of Bill Gates and it is on the way to 2k views on NodeTube right now, I think there is a first-adopters bonus to being
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by mayeaux 7y ago
The amount of electricity on Earth is not unlimited so at the end of the day there is a literal limit to the amount of data that can be transferred but for the purposes of advertising the product it's fair to describe the bandwidth as
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Honestly, I think a lot of creators are fed up with YouTube. Also creators like variety and the opportunity to leverage new platforms. I think new creators will really like the platform, also there is already automatic YT->NT backup func
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by mayeaux 7y ago
The goal here is to get enough of an OS community behind NodeTube that there are a lot of different sized instances out in the wild. At that point with ActivityPub the idea is to federate them and allow servers to index eachother's con
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by mayeaux 7y ago
That is so bizarre, there is an old Coinhive implementation that I was testing out but it is totally commented out, I just sent a message to Heroku support I will get back to you super sorry to hear that that happened. That's crazy tha
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by mayeaux 7y ago
My take is you go the freemium model. Free version of NodeTube gets you cool features, but if you want really epic features (livestreaming, increased file uploads, private/unlisted uploads) then you have to pay a bit. My bet is that pe
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Really good points raised here guys. Here's my take on each point raised: 1) Appeal to viewers: it's slick, no clutter, really fun, and people hate YouTube. There's lots of appeal already just based on the reaction I've
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by mayeaux 7y ago
NodeTube has a really nice BackBlaze integration so I'm just using it for the purposes of this demo app atm. Even with the high traffic the site is experiencing right now it's incredibly inexpensive to use B2.
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Personally I would never implement WebTorrent on production because of that exact issue. If you wanted to have it turned off by default and then have a user opt-in that would be one thing but I would never have it on by default. NodeTube do
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Absolutely, since ActivityPub is becoming a W3C standard it makes sense for as many social sites as possible to support it.
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by mayeaux 7y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Currently I am just running the hosting off of a Backblaze B2 account. It's still super cheap right now, if it ever gets expensive I will definitely look into a VPS or Dedicated Server, but hopefully there wi
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Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with image and audio uploads(github.com)
151 points by mayeaux 7y ago|78 comments
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Open-source YouTube alt that also supports images and audio. Powered by Node.js(github.com)
4 points by mayeaux 7y ago|0 comments
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Open-source YouTube alternative that also supports audio and images, (NodeJS)
9 points by mayeaux 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Open-source YouTube alternative that supports audio and images
4 points by mayeaux 7y ago|0 comments

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