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KeizerDev / Browsertime

:watch: Bringing Popcorn Time to your browser using WebTorrent
http://browsertime.keizerdev.net/
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Create a project page #10

Closed KeizerDev closed 8 years ago

KeizerDev commented 8 years ago

On the gh-pages branch:

fritek373 commented 8 years ago

You need to say that it's only for developers (in the first line), to prevent all kind of stupid questions (Like what is happening on Reddit now).

KeizerDev commented 8 years ago

@fritek373 Actually it have to be hosted somewhere but I don't want to do that. So that would be a developer guide yeah. I'll probably will make some build scripts for different distros so it is super easy to build and deploy for the world

fritek373 commented 8 years ago

Yup, sounds like a good idea. Don't host it yourself, make the users host it. Installations should be easy as well, but how?

KeizerDev commented 8 years ago

I'll make some bash scripts for different linux distro's

lbennett-stacki commented 8 years ago

What about implementing peercloud allowing the users of Browsertime to host the publicly hosted websites? This does however raise a question...

If everyone has to download the repo and run the local server application in order to use the player in the browser, why isn't it just packaged and distributed as a desktop application? The beauty of browser applications is their availability and ease of use but with this in mind Browsertime certainly better suites an electron application over a browser application. Which brings us back to essentially rebuilding popcorntime and thus something magical has to happen in issue #7 to get this moving.

Another alternative could be to use peercloud to build a "daemon" application which allows peers to opt-in and download a small server application in order to help host the public websites that run the Browsertime scripts. You could maybe even offer bonuses to "seeders" or go a step further and only allow access to the site if the daemon is found running on their local system.

I could be looking at this completely wrong though, what do you think?

KeizerDev commented 8 years ago

@LukeeeeBennett Sorry for my late response, I won't be able to host this myself because of #7. What I want users who can host this frontend. I'll create an electron app to just seed the movies to the webtorrent protocol and use a tracker to index those so we can use this in the browser(front end version). The hardest thing is to reseed everything for the web. I can't do this on my own.

We can start with like 5 movies, hosted on a digital ocean server to make this project more public and just get started with it. Than eventually, people will add movies to it, I hope. If we can just make something to index those movies and wrap it to one api we are gtg.

The hosting part is just a pain in the ass for me. Let's just pretend that browsertime is an frontend for a webbased torrent protocol. I think that would make a lot clear to you.

You can mail me or pm me on gitter so we can talk a bit further if you want.