Some details
The project was a private online video sharing service which provided consumers complete control over the distribution and privacy of their personal videos. Back in 2010, YouTube and Vimeo were the major platforms which were oriented at public video sharing. This product was a new type of video platform where users would share their private videos easily by selecting a limited circle of friends.
They were a startup with
limited resources. The client wanted to have solution up and running quickly. They had graphical design mockups, and we were implementing both the back-end and front-end in a tight timeframe. One of the challenges was adapting video player for different browsers, as in 2010 there was no universal JS solution for this, but only Flash. This was one of our first projects in an agile methodology, so we had to experiment before building the whole dev process and match it with the customer’s tempo.We deployed a small agile team of two full-stack developers, doing everything, from collecting requirements to testing and deployment. First, we re-designed the project using the mock-ups provided, and performed cross-browser QA. Then we improved sharing features, added comments to videos, and integrated a payment system. Video streaming was done with the help of Wowza media server, as there were no ready-made suitable solutions in 2010. We had to build two separate applications: for desktop and for mobile devices.
As a result, the first iteration of this video sharing website was completed and we released the MVP into production
