[HN Gopher] Show HN: YTT Tech - My curated database of instructi...
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Show HN: YTT Tech - My curated database of instructional YouTube
Videos
Author : jrowen
Score : 47 points
Date : 2021-02-03 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| samblr wrote:
| That's a neat idea, no distractions from suggested videos.
| sixQuarks wrote:
| I love curation projects.
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| Here's a tip if you want to get people to submit more videos.
| Include a "Submit Video" button in each area. When someone knows
| of a great video for a category, having to sign up for an account
| is a huge hassle and de-motivator. So just turn the onboarding
| upside down. Make it easy to submit a link first.
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| Once the link is submitted, THEN ask them to fill out the
| Username/password/email. At that point, they're already invested
| in the process, already submitted the link, and it's a lot easier
| to finish.
| jrowen wrote:
| Hey HN,
|
| I love learning how to do things on YouTube. It's amazing -
| empowering, really - that we can instantly look up how to do so
| many things. When I looked around for a site dedicated to
| organizing and curating this content, I didn't find much, so I
| took a stab at it. The goal of the site is to make it easy to
| browse through and discover videos on different topics.
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| After implementing the basic experience and authoring tools, I
| spent weeks combing through videos to get the collection started,
| and I've only scratched the surface. Many areas of interest
| remain to be added, and to that end, users can submit videos to
| the database and make other contributions. If the idea resonates
| it could become a useful resource.
|
| You don't need to register for the main experience of viewing the
| videos, only to contribute new ones, and email is optional.
|
| A demo video can be found here: https://youtu.be/EpWfvu0p5lA
|
| Thanks!
| staticelf wrote:
| You should make the main content full screen or at least larger
| and perhaps add more fields. It took a long time before it loaded
| in the boxes, so is the server overloaded atm?
| jrowen wrote:
| By more fields do you mean more departments/subjects? Those
| would be added over time, it takes time to find and vet videos
| and I didn't want to have a bunch of mostly empty ones, though
| I understand that it can give the appearance that many things
| are just left out (users can also suggest new ones when adding
| videos).
|
| The backend is on Lambda and DynamoDB so it should be able to
| handle it, but it does seem to be slow right now, I'm
| increasing the ReadCapacityUnits to see if that helps.
| hasbot wrote:
| How/why did you choose those videos? I'm hoping to build a cabin
| this year and not a single video I've watched is listed here. The
| framing videos you have listed seem pretty old-school. Fine
| Homebuilding and Matt Risinger have updated videos.
| jrowen wrote:
| I chose them based on what I've come across and searched for,
| and comparing several videos of the same type. The carpentry
| videos were some of the earliest ones I added so my process may
| not have been as good then.
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| Of course, I'm not an expert on all of these subjects. I've
| done my best to get things off to a good start, but ultimately
| the idea would be that people with more knowledge than me add
| videos on things they know about.
| wcd-fyi wrote:
| First of all, congratulations on getting this project out the
| door! This could be a nice discovery tool for people seeking a
| new hobby.
|
| I notice that each REST request you're making returns a lot of
| extra data in the payload that the site doesn't seem to use
| (submittedBy, ytTags, ytDuration, etc). You could probably
| improve performance by only returning the minimal set of the data
| the UI needs.
|
| You commented below that this backed by Lambda & DynamoDB. I'm
| guessing the site is running a little slow right now because it's
| making a db query for each REST request. Since your list of
| videos is relatively small and will only be updated periodically,
| you might consider simply including the whole json structure in
| the page and making the site entirely static. It will scale much
| better and save you some money on hosting costs. If you prefer to
| keep the data loading dynamically, consider putting a caching
| layer in front of the lambdas.
| dharmab wrote:
| You should add an automotive section. 90% would be ChrisFix.
|
| Also, motorcycle repair with MC Garage, Revzilla/The Shop Manual
| and Fortnine.
| jrowen wrote:
| Yeah I had considered it, as I know it's a popular topic, but I
| know virtually nothing about cars.
|
| Would you break out the different sections by manufacturer - is
| most stuff specific to certain makes/models? Or is it general
| enough that a "brakes" section would make sense?
| dharmab wrote:
| There's a body of general knowledge that is applicable to
| most makes and models, and specific knowledge for each make
| and model. The specific knowledge is mostly in service
| manuals and dedicated forums, but the general knowledge is
| widely available in video form. The general learning path is
| to get the general background online, then read the service
| manual for the exact procedure for your car or bike.
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