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A comment on Ask HN: What would be involved in building your own YouTube clone?.

Re:Ask HN: What would be involved in building your own YouTu... by john_the_writer on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:16AM (#34543828)
Google :) https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_v...

Lets say rails.

1. add devise so users are users

2. add Video controller/model

3. connect data field as active_storage, backed by amazon

4. have video tag with link to uploaded file stored on amazon.

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Re:Ask HN: What would be involved in building your own YouTu... by mrprogrammerguy on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:52AM (#34544029)
Wow that's crazy. Feels a bit overly simple. So why do people use third party video players on their website then?
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Re:Ask HN: What would be involved in building your own YouTu... by ttctciyf on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:26AM (#34544219)
To embed advertising, avoid simple downloading of video content, and add bells and whistles like timeline preview thumbs, custom context menus, etc.. I guess.
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