YouTube Like Blockchain Platform Development Features and Cost

Posted by codingp on January 12th, 2021

Want to develop a video streaming/ hosting website just as impeccable as YouTube is? But got no idea where to start from? We’ll guide you through each step of this heft process. You’ve got all covered. Stop stressing about it. Just continue reading the article.

What is YouTube?

It is a video streaming/ hosting website which is used by the music and entertainment companies to release their official music trailers, and movie trailers up to as high as 1080pixels resolution. Nowadays, more and more brands are going online to advertise their products and services. The amateur blogging content on by the influencers is another paradigm which covers multifarious niches like fashion, beauty, styling, technology, real estate property, and much more related to humans in more than 54 languages spoke around the world.

Let’s have a look on the facts and figures that will further substantiate your desire to have video-streaming website like YouTube;

  • 62% of businesses use YouTube.
  • 51% of people over 75 watch videos on YouTube
  • It has 2 million logged-in monthly users
  • Users spend 11m 24 s per day on YouTube
  • Each visit includes 6.5 page views on average
  • In the US alone, YouTube makes 5.5 billion from advertising
  • US alone gives 15% traffic on the You Tube
  • 93% of video watchers in India are watching YouTube
  • People upload 500 hours of video every minute
  • 10% of the most popular YouTube videos draw 79% of views
  • Over 70% of YouTube views are on mobile
  • Watch time for videos on “which product to buy” doubled between 2017 and 2018
  • YouTube’s Google Preferred ads lift ad recall by 112%
  • The number of channels that earn ,000 USD per year or more on YouTube grew by 50%, year over year
  • YouTube search is bigger than Bing

YouTube’s Success Timeline

It was founded by Chad Meredith Hurley on 2005. It’s been 15 years since YouTube came into our lives.

Features of YouTube

The main features of the YouTube that for the backbone are as follows;

Basic YouTube Features

The basic YouTube features are as follows;

  • Registration

Since YouTube was owned by Google, so a google account would make it to suffice to get registered with the YouTube. In fact, the users that already have a Google account do not need to get registered with the app again. YouTube is very conscious about the children’s accounts, so it takes extra care for the children using it by asking them to provide a parent account that will oversee their online activity.  This has been included into the YouTube’s policy after being heavily criticized for making children prone to the pedophilic comments.

When the users log into the google account, they can see Google products and use YouTube from there too.

  • Log In/ Log Off

The users can see the premium quality videos without logging in. The log-in is necessary to have the recommended videos from the users’ personal algorithm. When a user is logged in, he gets to see the notifications from the accounts that he has subscribed by ringing the bell icon.

  • Subscribe

The users can get subscribed to the video channels whose videos they like to see in their feed. The users can set their subscription list setting to public and private as they change their setting list from private to public.

  • Bell Icon

Subscribing to a channel does not notify its subscribers when a video is uploaded by the creator of that channel. The user profile also has a bell icon, clicking this bell icon would enlist all of the notification of a new video upload from the accounts to which they have subscribed. The users can block or unblock bell notification setting from the subscribed accounts.

  • Mode

The users can choose the dark and light mode of the YouTube interface. The designing and the interface turns from white to black when the mode turns into night from the day.

  • Short/ Large Screen

The users can make the screen short and large by clicking on the right side of the video being played. The large video gets played on the entire screen. The screen gets adjusted with the size of the screen of the device on which it is being played i.e. tablet, mobile screen, TV screens, and desktop screens due to the screen adaptability technology applied by the programmers behind.

  • Livestream

The YouTube launched the YouTube Live in April 2011, which allow the users to livestream their major events in hd quality i.e. 1020p. During the pandemic, the usage of this feature got momentum on a new level and many businesses used it to launch their products.

  • Video-On-Demand

The videos on-demand are played with the help of meta-tags and the keywords in the search bar.

  • Content Management System

YouTube’s video content management system help you upload, manage and take control over your entire video content with zero complexities. The CMS also helps in searching and finding the right video, bearing the right metadata for faster video delivery. 

Best YouTube like Blockchain App Development Approach

Step1 - Requirement Gathering

This step includes gathering the requirements you want your app to deliver to you. Deeply analyze the idea and how these ideas can be translated into functionalities. Check the feasibility of these ideas getting translating into features or functionalities. Now, prepare the project plan optimization. Plan out whether you need an open source video streaming website or a customized solution. Your video website will allow the uploading or downloading of the video or not. It costs around --content---0 during the planning phase depending upon the availability of the tools dispensable for planning.

STEP 2 - UX and SiteMaping

The secret ingredient in the perfect recipe of Instagram is the smooth and seamless experience which comes from the smooth UI and UX design. It includes two phases 1) UX Modeling 2) HLD & Documentation. The phases in this step include preparation of the flowcharts and sketches of the user needs and functionalities. Prepare the information architecture design. Prepare the sitemaps too. Sitemaps are the maps that are used to represent the specific pages of the website and navigate the client through these pages.

The wireframes are the floor plan of the project into which the design and content flow, that could be sketched or annotated diagrams. It costs around --content---00 for this step.

STEP 3 - UI Design

Third step is to build the User Interface design. The UX/ UI team needs to determine the UI strategy first of all. This strategy includes building a strategy that should facilitate the user interface experience. Incorporate art direction, storyboarding, and moodboard creation in making the full UI design.

The UI design must specify the location of the content and video player on the page. It costs around --content---00 for this step.

STEP 4- Agile Development

Nowadays, agile development is preferred. This is a quick and team based blockchain development service. Project Manager and technical lead should create milestone, plan the sprint, conduct scrum meetings, and show the sprint demos to make the development really quick and impeccable.

The knowledge of following languages is necessary;

  • HTML/Client-side JavaScript/CSS
  • Database OLTP to maintain relational DBMS
  • Data warehouse (OLAP)

Moreover, other persons required during the development process along with the developers are tool developers, mobile device application, web application, API developers and authenticators, etc.

The major chunk of the cost is spent here with an estimation of about 00-00 here.

Content Support: The YouTube like websites need a well-established content management system to facilitate the users with the Meta data of the video being uploaded on the site. A content writer is required to write the details about videos and costs around 0-0 to hire the content writer.

Client Documents: A website like YouTube must contain client documents that could store any digital file. The developer will have to buy cloud storages for the file sharing. This could minimally cost between 0-0.

Website Hosting:The uploading and downloading of the videos from the website costs the owner money. Even YouTube went bankrupt in providing the money required to keep the servers running. The cost of web hosting increases everyday as more content is uploaded every day. Technically speaking, this cost is indefinite.

STEP 5- Testing and Launching

The test codes and user test scenarios are written down by the quality and assurance team and the testers perform automated or manual testing to check the functionality of the app using tools like WebDriver. The bugs are removed by the developers after which the product is launched. It costs around 00-00 at this step depending upon if the testing is automated or manual.

Usually, minimum viable product with least features is developed and released. This is called beta-version.  After the bugs are reported, the app is updated accordingly.

Let’s sum it up!

Conclusion

People like to binge-watch videos. Making a platform that provides with this opportunity is like meeting the utility in this era. Don’t forget to make it worthwhile for the viewers that is when they keep coming to the platform again and again.

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