Ideas For Improving DTube
I believe @dtube has great potential. DTube is open source, anyone can contribute to the code! -https://github.com/dtube
I am going to share some ideas I have that may improve DTube. If anyone wants to implement any of my ideas I will pay out bounty rewards.
@Onelovedtube offers a monthly package of 10$ for IPFS storage; this is a must IMO. (shout out to @runicar for showing me onelovedtube) For having no ads and censorship resistance, that is worth something. Especially since a serious content creator could make 10$ in a month posting a few videos a week. (I would help as many serious content creators I can get their 10$ IPFS each month via upvotes) - One click option where the first of your rewards go to your IPFS membership. This will allow your videos to live forever and improve quality and loading speed. - Two of the biggest issues people have with DTube atm.
Tipping. We need a way for people to tip content creators without upvoting. It takes a healthy amount of Steem Power to upvote someone 5$. However, I know many people that would love to send a few SBD tip to content creators who otherwise can't afford to make a massive investment in Steem. I know this can be done from the wallet, but a simple button under the video that allows people to tip right there at the video would be miles better IMO. This will increase people buying up Steem to tip their favorite content creators. Also, people could use this tip feature to tip older videos that they found useful.
Video size has to be below a certain extent. - Force people to use things like handbrake to reduce video size. I should not be able to upload a bloated sized video, and we should cap the videos to 15-20 minutes max unless you pay for a IPFS storage plan. We need to optimize the platform.
Promote how to use handbrake or similar.
When Possible:
Ads. The ability for content creators to monetize via ads. DTube gets a small cut; creators get a cut and (using Braves open source code) take as much as we can to add a way for viewers to get paid as well. This will go full circle; a content creator can use funds from ads to fund IPFS account. Dtube gets paid. And people will watch ads, esp, in the beginning, to support the network and earn some extra Steem.
- Copy paste brave model: Advertiser buys Steem, funds a campaign, approved content creators get a choice if they want to show ads or not, and so do the viewers. Content creators then get paid for displaying ads on their channel automatically.
Wish List:
Add:
- Auto post button while uploading. It sucks to have to wait until it is finished uploading and having to manually click upload.
- Videos people are watching section. This will help bring good content to the front. Upvotes are one thing, but people actually watching is another.
- Bring in view count. I know view count isn't the goal and SP is. However, people still would like to know how many views they are getting and this is a must if we are talking about bringing in ads.
- Theater mode.
- Ability to set who rewards go to for that video. (charity videos etc.)
- Able to remember where you were in mid-video if it glitches out.
- My favorites sections.
- Ability to make videos private or unlisted.
- Feature video, yours or someone else's. When I go to someone's profile, they can feature someone's video or their favorite video.
- Guru videos section, for people that teach people things.
Super Santa Wish: Give a section "Most Responded Videos." Videos that are getting a bunch of comments, upvotes, views, watch time and resteems should have a section. Voting bots are one thing, but it is hard to have a bot watch the video, upvote, comment and resteem. This is a step we can take to filter the most organically watched content from the inorganic content.
It's easy to get caught up in the price and lose sight of the prize. No matter what happens we need to lean out while simultaneously moving forward.
Quotes To Float Your Boats:
"On April 23, YouTube went live, taking advantage of a $129-a-month unlimited data plan from ISP ServerBeach. That was all YouTube needed for a time."
"In the beginning of YouTube, we found that very few people came to our website," Karim recalled. "The product was so primitive that you could not even choose which videos you wanted to watch. Instead, the website picked the videos for you, randomly. Moreover, because there were so few videos, they were the same ones, over and over again."
"YouTube's team consisted of about half a dozen people by then, including Chen and Hurley. All had been working out of their homes."
"Hurley and Chen pressed on. The numbers steadily increased. After he invested, Rabois checked Alexa daily to see YouTube's progress. When it cracked the top 35,000 sites, that was a big deal."
- Source: https://bit.ly/2E1kowx
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Thank you for your review, @knowledges! Keep up the good work!
Thank You so much for the huge promotion of the #OneLoveDTube IPFS service 💪 don’t forget the paid HD backup option (480p & 240p are free for all!!!!) also comes with access to the OneLove uploader which is accessible say the DTube servers go down or have crazy long queues 😉
I agree with you completely about the ads, I have mentioned it a few times that having a system of approved paid advertising and ever green content could very well be the solution to sustainability for the creators and the platform alike. I have no issues watching an ad per video, even just click banners could go a long way!
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@d00k13,
Can you tell me more about the free 480p backup from @onelovedtube?
I have been wanting to backup my videos but cannot afford the $10 USD a month right now (I am accumulating Steem Power instead) and some of my videos were deleted from @dtube.
How do I take advantage of the free @onelovedtube backup feature?
Thanks!
~ @chrisrice
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Thanks Dan! For giving us your time and ideas.
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Thanks for the shoutout!
Excellent ideas
The most exciting two to me, are:
ads - > In collab with @dtube, @dclick should be able to pull it off. Maybe get in contact with them?
tips - > Not only because I like to tip, especially when low on VP but, because of the ability to reward content older than 7 days. That's crucial for content creators who are here for the long run and something we are definitely missing right now.
In order to really incentivize devs to go at this and start punching out the code, you could make a separate post and set definitive bounties for each suggestion. Also, if you didn't know, there is SteemBounty. Or, even better, make Utopian.io bounty.
I don't have any of my own suggestions though, you covered pretty much everything there is. I would love to see Dtube get a facelift with at least a couple of your suggestions implemented.
I'll see if I can get any devs to come your way and start working on this.
Great idea. I need to research more on how to work with Utopian
Ask around in their discord. There is always someone there ready to help out.
All great ideas, let’s see if dtube can implement some of these features. 😀
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A mobile App or at least a coorperarion with the Partiko team to implement in there App would be amazing. Dtube needs to go mobile and needs to become more faster and reliable!
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Agreed, @partiko & @dtube could colab to make an amazing App for Dtube.
@partiko times out a lot when I use it but I think it is because I live in the Philippines. Other users like @kenmelendez seem to have a seamless experience.
P.S. I am using the Android app.
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Put some decent thought into this one Dan. Well done. Passed it on so others can give their input.
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Some great points you bring up @theycallmedan. Also with tipping how about having fiat tipping with Paypal if people want to do that. Or is that getting away from a decentralized landscape too much ??
Really excellent idea and very informative video for us. onelovedtube offer very good
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These are great ideas in my opinion, especially the ads one. I think that we really need to take advantage of ads here.
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You would be surprised at how much a simple website like coinmarketcap makes off ads. There is a ton of money sitting on the table if we pull it off right. If we do the Brave model, where the viewer of the ad and creator of the content both get paid from the ad, there is incentive to actual view ads. I would personally watch ads if it meant I earned a little Steem over time doing so while helping the content creator at the same time.
Excellent point @theycallmedan copying the Brave model for @dtube and even @steemit is worth it's own post - Please do a stand-alone post about it!
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With Steemit for example, ads would greatly help them to allocate fiat and get more SP than ever during this hard times
That would be a sustainable business model and most likely they wouldn't have to cut 70% of their staff
The real question is, why didn't they have ads (on the most used interface) and if nothing else, held fiat until times like these...
Nevertheless, I guess this is nothing else but looking in the past - but I do agree DTube should do similar and if I had the decision, I wouldn't wait a single day...
I think Steemit and the rest of the apps are leaving a ton of money on the table not bringing ads in. I am porting somee.social to the Steem blockchain. The delay with SMTs does not help, but SoMee would have used ads to reward content creators/consumers alike. The main point is anyone that does not want to see ads can turn them off, one click, gone forever. However, the ones that wish to help the platform they are on and earn some crypto for watching ads is a big market and unfair to those individuals but not giving them a choice.
If I were to wave a magic wand for Steemit:
Ads (tick for tack the Brave Model, by far the best model I have seen for Ads, all open source and free to the taking)
Using money from Ads, get SMTs done.
Really that is all I want from them. Give me SMTs, and I can do much damage regarding converting projects to the Steem blockchain. Moreover, Steemit gets enough traffic to get some great money for ads. Most people will watch the commercials to support Steemit. Win/Win/Win for all.
You should create a proposal about this and address to @ned
No joke though. And you might be the right person they'll listen
I would observe it with smile on my face... And I can make a vid about it to generate some traction
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Hey @theycallmedan:
I know. There is a ton of money to be made there. That's why I wish we will be able to utilise ads in the future. But like you say, we have to pull it off right.
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