Show HN: Scraping 2.5 million songs metadata from Jango Radio Jango. It's a music streaming service. No it's not Spotify. Yes I know you've never heard of Jango. So I spent the past few months scraping metadata for every song on Jango Radio and put it in a database and made it searchable. I built a search tool which includes the kind of features that only a nerd would want like search by ID and search by URL. https://jango-index.ml/ I used Bash and Btrfs for the backend scraper. I used PHP and SQLite for the frontend search. https://ift.tt/2Xhatvo I'm not interested in monetizing what I did. I wouldn't be interested in a marketing campaign to raise the notoriety of Jango Radio to the point that you would notice it exists either. I'm aware that my project looks like crap to web design obsessed marketing posers who pretend to code. I happen to enjoy coding and I did a coding project. I know coding is an intrinsically valueless endeavor. I did it anyway. August 13, 2020 at 07:10AM
Show HN: Infstream – We’re trying to fix video monetization for creators TL;DR: https://ift.tt/2VFChrA Hi HN – we’re Ben & Callum from Infstream. We’ve always been heavy users of YouTube, for entertainment, education and sharing. Towards the end of last year, we saw more and more horror stories of YouTubers losing their livelihood to the ad algorithm. We decided to build a content-first video platform, which aims to reduce issues by removing advertisers from the equation. Instead, we charge for the content you watch – bold, I know. Instead of paying in advertising and data, users on Infstream build their own streaming package, a channel at a time. Anyone can start a channel (US & UK now, Europe soon) and earn directly from their subscribers. Subscribers pay $1 per month per channel, of which the channel receives $0.75. This all begins from the first subscriber, there are no minimums to start monetization. Channels have total control, and can publish on a daily, weekly or monthl...
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