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Its worth a shot. Wasting my time, money, energy, etc.
Why would people want to create content for your platform though? Why would they want to partner with your site, an unknown, to begin with?
What can it do that other's can't? (I mean remember you're going to be competing with literal giants like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Twitch, Spotify, youtube, etc... all of whom can burn millions and think nothing of it.)
So you need to have some kind of feature or very clear difference that makes your service stand out and appeal to people. (And not to be a dick, but simply because it's made by you and not a large company is not a real selling point.)
This is going to be especially important because people are likely not going to want to make content for a service with no users. Not when they have options like Twitch or youtube which have thousands, if not millions, of users already registered. Unless you have something to offer they're going to pass because they don't benefit in any way from putting their content on your platform. (They aren't going to gain anything by taking time to put content on your site, there are no new users there. If anything they could end up hurting as a result because time they spend putting content on your basically unknown platform means time not spent on the much better known ones. )
The next major hurtle, should you figure out some kind of difference, is how are you going to afford the servers? I mean streaming (or any kind of video related elements) gets ridiculously expensive in a hurry. You'd be burning through bandwidth at an insane rate. For example say a 5 minute youtube video is 100mb and it gets played 10 times. That's 1 gigabyte of data used. It costs roughly $1 for a terabyte of data say... Off to a good start it seems... 1 GB is 1/1000th of a TB. So under a dollar for now. But imagine how much it'd cost if got played 3 million times (about $300,000). Alternatively have a dozen videos with multiple high view counts.
And then of course you need to be ready to scale this so that it's not just 1 server but 20 or 100 if things go well.
What can it do that other's can't? (I mean remember you're going to be competing with literal giants like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Twitch, Spotify, youtube, etc... all of whom can burn millions and think nothing of it.)
So you need to have some kind of feature or very clear difference that makes your service stand out and appeal to people. (And not to be a dick, but simply because it's made by you and not a large company is not a real selling point.)
This is going to be especially important because people are likely not going to want to make content for a service with no users. Not when they have options like Twitch or youtube which have thousands, if not millions, of users already registered. Unless you have something to offer they're going to pass because they don't benefit in any way from putting their content on your platform. (They aren't going to gain anything by taking time to put content on your site, there are no new users there. If anything they could end up hurting as a result because time they spend putting content on your basically unknown platform means time not spent on the much better known ones. )
The next major hurtle, should you figure out some kind of difference, is how are you going to afford the servers? I mean streaming (or any kind of video related elements) gets ridiculously expensive in a hurry. You'd be burning through bandwidth at an insane rate. For example say a 5 minute youtube video is 100mb and it gets played 10 times. That's 1 gigabyte of data used. It costs roughly $1 for a terabyte of data say... Off to a good start it seems... 1 GB is 1/1000th of a TB. So under a dollar for now. But imagine how much it'd cost if got played 3 million times (about $300,000). Alternatively have a dozen videos with multiple high view counts.
And then of course you need to be ready to scale this so that it's not just 1 server but 20 or 100 if things go well.
/early_access: http://apkatube.x10host.com/cumulus/
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A Streaming Service will cost, I'd say around hundreds of thousands of pounds(or dollars) or maybe even millions. Streaming is not cheap and so you'll need people to sign up to a membership. Which is what Netflix does. But I highly doubt this will become popular as too many people are using other Streaming Services. It's best you just forget about this idea and stick with the Music Forum and News Site.
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As @VirusZero said, no one's going to partner with you and upload content. Mind you, since it's a 'Streaming Service', you're going to be competing with big companies like Netflix. And since you can upload videos, it's a Youtube clone. As I said, this site is not going to be popular anytime soon.
Servers are going to be too expensive if you don't have the money to afford it. As both me and @VirusZero said, it's going to be really expensive and once people start uploading content, don't expect money but expect a lot of power-cuts and expensive electricity bills.
Another thing @VirusZero mentioned is that what does it have that no other site has. If you made this site around, let's say... 2004(1 year before Youtube even existed), it would be innovational. People would look up to it and say: 'Wow. It's impressive. Technology is the greatest thing ever'. But since you've just made it recently, people are going to say: 'This is a rip-off of Youtube. Don't join'.
So as I said in my previous post for this site before I referred some parts of what @VirusZero said, just stick with the Music Forum and News Site. Shut down the Streaming website and forget about it entirely. Or you can just keep it up, get people to sign up, get some expensive bills and bad press for being a Youtube clone.
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Yes, Streaming may be hot just now but since you've just started, it's not gonna be easy. Plus, how are you going to get partnerships and content creators on a site that pretty much rips-off Youtube. People are fine with Netflix, Youtube, Dailymotion and Vimeo. We don't need another one of these sites.
As @Empire said, if people upload copyrighted content then you're screwed. You'll be fined thousands, maybe even millions of dollars depending on how big the copyrighted content is and how much of it is uploaded. Not to mention that with the ongoing issue of 'Article 13 destroying the internet', if it get's accepted then your site is screwed even more because of copyrighted content and this EU Law.
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Don't. You've in fact, just started a video streaming service using the default theme from an open-source project at first(I actually though that the Streaming Service was called Cumulus until I found out it was an open-source project). So ditch this idea and move onto something much similiar.
Yeah, I was brainstorming some ideas. General forums need to be very detailed when it comes to categories. Need a rare topic to do a project on.
GeekFeed - Made it into a microblogging site.
/early_access: http://geekfeed.x10host.com/
/early_access: http://geekfeed.x10host.com/
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The website application you've used is called StoryTLR. It is used to blog your life and for micro-blogging. Not to mention that StoryTLR has been discontinued for 9 years now and this year will mark the 10th anniversary since it's death.
It's open-source here: https://github.com/eschnou/storytlr
But none of the code on that GitHub repository has been updated in 5 or 6 years meaning that it's not worth using and it will be vulnerable to hacks, ddos attacks and a bunch of other security risks.
TechCrunch wrote an article about it shutting down back in 2009, just a while before it actually closed: https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/10/the-tale-of-storytlr-ends-here/
This article mentions how the owners couldn't start a company with it, it's shutdown date, how they got bored of working on it and making it open-source. I suggest you read it.
Another thing is that, your "GeekFeed"(In air-quotes) has no content on it. If you aren't going to post anything then get rid of it. I have mentioned multiple times to you that you shouldn't start too many sites in such a short span of time. That's too much work to handle and you'll become stressed very fast because of all the work you have to do. At this point in time, all of these sites your starting is just feeling like spam and you're like a kid who's a troublemaker. I tell you off for bad behaviour but you just don't listen. If you're going to add to the landfill of the web's 1.8 billion+ sites in which most of them don't get visited then just don't start a website at all. And I'm being serious when I say that. Most of the sites you're starting up will not get any vistors apart from people on sites like forumpromotion.net. For example, you started a "Streaming Site"(In air-quotes), that is pretty much a Youtube clone. That's not gonna work out for you and so you're better by getting rid of those sites that nobody is going to visit.
Yours Sincerely
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DanS, a guy who actually looks into things and doesn't dive right in without any knowledge.
It's open-source here: https://github.com/eschnou/storytlr
But none of the code on that GitHub repository has been updated in 5 or 6 years meaning that it's not worth using and it will be vulnerable to hacks, ddos attacks and a bunch of other security risks.
TechCrunch wrote an article about it shutting down back in 2009, just a while before it actually closed: https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/10/the-tale-of-storytlr-ends-here/
This article mentions how the owners couldn't start a company with it, it's shutdown date, how they got bored of working on it and making it open-source. I suggest you read it.
Another thing is that, your "GeekFeed"(In air-quotes) has no content on it. If you aren't going to post anything then get rid of it. I have mentioned multiple times to you that you shouldn't start too many sites in such a short span of time. That's too much work to handle and you'll become stressed very fast because of all the work you have to do. At this point in time, all of these sites your starting is just feeling like spam and you're like a kid who's a troublemaker. I tell you off for bad behaviour but you just don't listen. If you're going to add to the landfill of the web's 1.8 billion+ sites in which most of them don't get visited then just don't start a website at all. And I'm being serious when I say that. Most of the sites you're starting up will not get any vistors apart from people on sites like forumpromotion.net. For example, you started a "Streaming Site"(In air-quotes), that is pretty much a Youtube clone. That's not gonna work out for you and so you're better by getting rid of those sites that nobody is going to visit.
Yours Sincerely
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DanS, a guy who actually looks into things and doesn't dive right in without any knowledge.
Worry about your own website. Don't worry about me. I'm a troublemaker lol. If you have an idea, get it a shot. Failure is okay. We learn from our mistakes. My projects are well-planned. I ain't gonna show you how I plan my projects. It's a secret. lol. My advice to you is don't worry so much about how its going to be. Life is unpredictable. Live a little. Party hard. And another thing, GeekFeed has content. It takes time to build something, Things take time to grow. I don't feel like listening to you because you're too negative. I like working on special projects. It makes me happy. I like keeping myself busy. Quoting a song, which you never heard before: "don't stress like Britany, get high like Whitney". lol. Anyways I'm out. Peace 1
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But the thing is, the software your site is using is outdated. That StoryTLR has been discontinued for 9+ years now. I know a site like GeekFeed takes time to add content but you could've at least posted a 'Welcome' post on it before linking to it. I know you like to keep yourself busy but managing too many websites isn't busy. That's overwhelming and stressful. I also know that people learn from mistakes but a lot don't. And I'm not that person who parties hard. I'm that person you see with a stern look on their face and takes things seriously. You have made about 3 - 5+ sites now and that's too much. I've said before, start with one site then after about 8 - 14 months, start another if you feel like you're ready. You're starting a site and getting ideas left - right and centre. Not to mention that you start up a new site in such a short span of time that your other sites look like their just about to be put up in the shelf to gather dust.
I know I should worry about my own site and I take it seriously. I look into things such as software, computers, operating systems, video games and all of that stuff. It's the same with starting my own forum. I look at things like ForumPromotion.net and Reddit to get some ideas going. You just rush in with an idea. For example, your "Streaming Service", has literally no content when I visited it and used a default theme and layout. That shows that you don't know what you're getting into, expect visitors, expect it to grow fast and make a quick buck off of it. It's also a sign of no effort put into it. The site never even had a logo as well. So either stick with and grow 1 site for a while then start another after 8 - 14 months or forget about a website at all. I see your posts literally everywhere and it's so annoying that it always has to be about a new website or website idea that's generic and constantly used or literally rip-offs something. Ta-Ta.
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I've never seen so many bad ideas in one thread.
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