Inspiration
There are 1.3 billion iMessage users and 600 million Discord users. Furtermore, 65% of phones use SMS and SMS does not allow video sharing. File sharing is IMPORTANT! Unfortunately, these applications use cloud-sharing with heavy limitations, and other cloud based video-upload systems such as Youtube and Google Drive take too long. Sometimes we just want to send videos to our friends without having to compress, crop, or have to upload them on a lengthy system. Furthermore, once users upload their videos, centralized systems own their data and users are not the ones in control. Being able to monetize and encrypt your own data without losing autonomy to the bigger players is essential.
What it does
VidTooBig allows the user to not only upload videos onto the Fabric, but also allows easy link sharing within seconds. The user is also given the autonomy to monetize and encrypt their data before sending it out. This allows it so the receipients cannot leverage the content against the sender. It's easy and helps fix the issues within most big cloud sharing platforms as well as beating the smaller competition as its free!
How we built it
I built this using Vercel, NextJS, TypeScript, React, & Eluv.io
Challenges we ran into
My biggest challenge was working solo on this project and starting very late on Saturday. As I flew in from Toronto, Canada and arrived Saturday morning, I spent most of the day playing catch-up and getting to know all the sponsors better. Eluv.io caught my eye and I had to spend all night working. Furthermore, nobody was awake to load my wallet so I couldn't experiment with the API
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Making a useful and intuitive web2 and web3 product!
What's next for VidTooBig
Incorporate Web3 and Web2 Wallet integration and a Firebase Authentication system for more personalization and security. Further build the full-stack elements so that the website can be useable and properly implements the API Make it so that the user can control how long the link will be active for, further putting their content within their control Web3 Venmo for Media Content Add Photo Sharing as well
Built With
- eluv.io
- nextjs
- react
- vercel
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