Someone please do this. (You'll probably need a lot of money.)
In the meantime, download anything you enjoy today, because it may not be there tomorrow.
In the meantime, download anything you enjoy today, because it may not be there tomorrow.
You basically need your own data centers and wholesale bandwidth, aka scale.
Building a reliable service, handling peak, etc. is hard, and driving down latency will probably cost more... But 40TB can be done a lot cheaper than 3-4k USD.
I'm sure if you rented hundreds of those and actually used the bandwidth they would kick you out.
I think that YouTube has reached Google levels of optimization. Sure, it could be better, but not better enough that people are willing to switch.
For any specialized market, probably a lot; YouTube may be the ultimate least-common-denominator user-submitted-video streaming service, but it's not the only one there is room for.
This is doubly true for services like Google Search, and yet (for example) security-oriented engines like DDG are barely making a dent.
I honestly don't think niche is the way to go if you're trying to go after Google/YouTube/Facebook. You'd need to figure out a core issue or core need that has been overlooked. And I just don't really see one.
DDG is making a huge dent in the narrow segment it is designed to appeal to, which is all any specialized service can hope for. I think DDG fans persistently overestimate how many people find Google’s personalization a net cost.
> I honestly don't think niche is the way to go if you're trying to go after Google/YouTube/Facebook. You'd need to figure out a core issue or core need that has been overlooked.
Sure, if you are trying to replace one of those as the dominant mass market player in its domain you need to do that.
Also, I think you are more likely to find a core need by dealing with a need that seems niche but is really just more pronounced and visible in that particular niche than by digging around in the dark for a core need.
The parent post was discussing disrupting the major player -- YouTube. Me making some tiny website that caters to videos of, say, amateur astronomy, while interesting and successful in its own right, would not so much as make a dent (let alone disrupt) YouTube.
That was my point: that disrupting YouTube (like disrupting Google) seems, to me, nigh impossible.
Unless your niche audience is willing to pay per minute, it is going to be difficult to pay the bills.
Google isn't removing any videos, but they are using the demonetized videos as bait to get you to watch their monetized videos.