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How to create your own Youtube and get your own billion

blog.kovyrin.net — Article about how to create your own video sharing service with flash video streaming using only open-source tools.

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  • chulium, on 10/12/2007, -27/+65Get my own billion, eh?

    If everybody does it, why would they want to pay for MY site? No, marked as inaccurate.
    • rynoon, on 10/12/2007, -12/+37Why is chulium getting dugg down for a statement that is completely true and obvious? YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE A BILLION DOLLARS RIPPING OFF YOUTUBE! Hell, YouTube can't even make a billion dollars doing what they do.
    • massproductions, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Step One: Get better web hosting.
    • h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12No, step one should be:

      Think of an original idea, or one that's not already a saturated marketplace.
    • jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7I dugg him down because he doesn't think there is any sarcasm is in the title "get your own billion"? Of course no one thinks we can all get a billion but the statement brings attention to the ridiculus idea that utube has such high value for a thing that so many people "could have done".
    • adidax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4quote: Hell, YouTube can't even make a billion dollars doing what they do. -rynoon

      inaccurate as of today (2006 Oct 09)
  • rynoon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46Original ideas are for assholes. Lets all do the exact same thing and expect to get rich doing it.
    • Maverick83, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7Like the Ipod?
    • BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4As much as a dispise the iPod it is an original idea. I just want people to make there own versions so you have more of a verity to chose from. I am actually looking forwards to Microsoft's Zune. There needs to be more compitition in iPod market.
    • Maverick83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Really? Creative would love to know that Apple had the original idea for a portable mp3 player months after they did.
    • mm371337, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I think you miss the point some what bringing the ipod in as an example!

      The original ipod was designed as the first mp3 player for mac, as at that time mac peripherals were few and far between, however, as with most of Apple's products they take an ok idea and turn it in to a great idea which is what they did with the ipod and the mac for that matter.

      It's very difficult to come up with a totally original idea anymore, most 'new' ideas are a combination of two or more existing ideas.

      This is often done in the technology sector and Apple is a perfect example, 'new' products that are a combination of already existing ideas:

      Mac (originally inspired by IBM)
      Mac OS X (inspired by windoze 98)
      Ipod (inspired by Creative and others)
      Mighty Mouse (inspired by pc mouse and a laptop track pad)
      Iphone (inspired by the ipod, current PDA's current mobile phones, etc.)

      Another great example is the Dyson vacuum cleaner, the industry laughed, as the inventor created the worlds first bagless vacuum cleaner, now it's the most popular vacuum cleaner and the industry has followed suit. This only came after millions were spent and years of determination.

      How does this work from YouTube's point of view, well, as a designer myself I can safely say that the layout of YouTube is pretty uninspiring even though it is easy to use etc. However, as new technologies develop and profession design is used the user experience increases quite dramatically.

      To say you could make a Billion from any website is wildly ambitious, however, to create a community based site that dedicates itself to the user and constantly adds improvements and new technologies along the way can't be a bad thing.

      YouTube, Myspace and even eBay are not perfect by any means, the larger these site become the harder they are to add new technologies too, so realistically there is a chance with the correct planning, good design practice and dedicated builders you could have a competing site, however, using Dyson as an example it can take a lot of time, money and effort but if your determined that you've created something that would benefit users and is better than the competition then it's worth it in my book, otherwise the internet and any other industry for that mater would be very boring.

      Improving existing ideas is something that has always been done, it's what makes competition in the market place but the true pioneers go above and beyond simply the idea of a competing product, the improve it vastly and believe in the product/service more than they believe in making money.

      If you want to make the new YouTube because you want to make lots of money you will fail because you will miss all the details that made Youtube great in the first place, it wasn't created to make money, it was created as a great user experience and money was a happy bi product.
  • shodson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Uh, and don't forget the bucketload of cash you'll need to pay for the bandwidth to distribute all of the videos
    • TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+201. Get some sucker VC to finance you
      2. ???????
      3. Rack up massive bandwidth bills and go bankrupt within months!
    • revenge7, on 10/12/2007, -5/+154. PROFIT!
  • thebraineater, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2mk
  • thegsa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/How_to_create_your_own_Youtube_and_get_your_own_billion/
  • Vizin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Because YouTube is where all the money is.
  • h4lofourt33n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18How to create your own webserver that doesn't crash because of digg effect from 52 people. Ouch.
  • dmron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Just what we need, yet ANOTHER video site!
  • dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10haha. youtube's big trick was scalling up fast enough.
  • Rochmndx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Hmmm.... when is Microsoft going to get in on the online video sharing fad?
    • concept, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5its called soapbox, i got an invite a little while ago...
    • Beverman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3It will probably be a paid service with vista ;)
    • dancrew32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3edit: beat me to it... soapbox! lol

      it's nice to have this technology openly available to us, but lets all think of something original to do with it.
    • concept, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://soapbox.msn.com/ there is the url...
  • carbine18, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4who diggs stuff like this?
  • OtheHugeManatee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If I wanted to run a business that would get hit with legal threats all the time and one that was about to get sued into oblivion I'd start a flop-house before another YouTube
  • LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Step 1: Make YouTube clone
    Step 2: Make $1 Billion
    Step 3: Get sued for $2 Billion
    Step 4: Debt
  • alexmipego, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some people talk too much about the bandwidth problems they have. You've ever wondered what if they started using a media player with bittorrent tecnology?
    • rynoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You can't stream media sent over the bittorrent protocol.
    • azshah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Invent the protocol conversion then :P
  • Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3youtube is worthless without its copyrighted content...

    heck dailymotion is the same damn thing...but you can even see boobs if ya want...

    we as consumers dont care where we get our copyrighted stuff just so long as we get it...so youtube is not as strong of a brand... really...
  • JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Lets not forget about Ning you can make your own video site there too. Granted you don't have full control but it is a hell of a lot easier.
    http://videos.ning.com/
  • victorp, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1http://www.fuzzlepop.com

    'nough said
  • rpgmaker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0...mmm... without tubes...
  • gd007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1miilion is enough for me!
  • wafflesomd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Step 1. Collect underpants

    Step 2. .....

    Step 3. Profit
  • diig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Look at this guys: www.tubeList.com they are making money using YouTube!
  • benplaut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Flash is not an open source tool...
  • mbertini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There is an open source system that allows to create YouTube like services on Sourceforge, called Lulop2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lulop2

    and it was derived from the system that drives Lulop.com: http://lulop.com/
  • Scoundrel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://digg.com/linux_unix/One_More_Open_Source_Tool_to_Kill_Youtube - one more tool to kill Youtube!
  • jedrzej, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0very good article, I'm going to make my own video solution in PHP, more on http://www.jedrzej.net
  • myownvideosite, on 03/06/2008, -1/+0try that
    http://startyourtube.com
    and let me know what you think of it
  • mydave, on 07/26/2008, -0/+0good article for future bilioners))
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