Welcome to Level1 Devember!

[Hubro]

My Devember project is to finish my prototype self-hosted clip sharing application so other people can easily deploy and make use of it.

Self-hosted clip sharing web app

I guess I’ll join the Devember hype, since Wendell and the gang keep badgering us about it on the news… Real quick about me, I’ve been working as a software engineer for around 10 years now. For most of my career, I’ve been a one-man-team full stack software engineer, creating utilities for various Norwegian internet service providers. I currently work as a test automation engineer and network orchestration engineer at nordic/european telecom provider (I play with Cisco NSO, Jenkins and Robot Framework, if that means anything to you ). In my free time I tinker with personal coding projects, polish my home automation setup, build computers and play video games. I few months ago I made a quick and simple self-hosted clip sharing application to share gaming clips with a few friends. My motivations were: Uploading to YouTube or Streamable takes a long time and destroys the quality of my clips Uploading to Dropbox and sending links is inconvenient for my friends, as they have to download the entire clip before watching it, which can take a looooong time from Dropbox I want to be able to save a clip and immediately send a link to somebody. That link should let my friend immediately stream it in full quality directly from my clip folder. I made a quick application using Next.js that does this, and it works fantastically! However, the only form of security is currently a NGINX reverse proxy with an ACL, and there are some features that are missing for this to be generally useful to other people. Here’s a quick overview of the current functionality: Runs in a Docker container with my clips folder mounted When a user opens the application in a browser all the clips are listed, sorted by file name, with file size and creation date of the file When a clip is clicked, a player view opens and plays the clip using a HTML5 video element. The clip is played as-is without any conversion or compression. I use this to share 30-40 Mbps clips…