[HN Gopher] Patreon's building native video hosting for creators...
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       Patreon's building native video hosting for creators to sidestep
       YouTube
        
       Author : 1cvmask
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2021-11-11 18:04 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | junon wrote:
       | I foresee this being very successful if they make the barrier to
       | entry for the viewer essentially zero. People have been starved
       | for a YouTube alternative for the better part of a decade now.
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | There's still a cost but Mux, Cloudflare, Vimeo, and other
         | video infra providers continue to make hosting your own video
         | content less painful as time goes by. Patreon has the benefit
         | that there's a revenue model they can offset the video cost
         | with. Free video hosting of very popular content is always
         | going to be a challenge, economically speaking. Someone's gotta
         | pay for disk and bandwidth.
        
           | breakingcups wrote:
           | Cloudflare and Vimeo are _insanely_ expensive once you cross
           | a threshold. Those looking to make their own video hosting
           | platform may be better off with something like BunnyCDN.
        
         | astlouis44 wrote:
         | 100%.
        
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