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Show Lemmy: I built a free streaming site from scratch — vanilla JS, Node.js, MongoDB, $0/month stack
(eli6movies.vercel.app)
Built ELI6 Movies as a side project to push how far a free-tier stack can go.
Tech:
- Frontend: pure HTML/CSS/vanilla JS on Vercel (free)
- Backend: Node.js/Express on Render (free)
- DB: MongoDB Atlas M0 (free)
- Metadata: TMDB API
- Video: third-party embeds with smart server failover
Interesting bits:
- Multi-server failover via postMessage detection
- Episode email notifier
- Tiered TMDB cache
- i18n (EN/IT/RU)
- Android TV spatial navigation
Happy to answer questions about the architecture.
popups were coming from window.open() inside the embed iframes, removed allow-popups from the sandbox so that cant happen anymore. should be good now
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You even slop coded your reply here complete with an emdash!
Step away from the LLM and try to UNDERSTAND what you’re trying to get others to use. Your app is like an open sewar and you’re completely blind to what it actually does because you’ve become so dependent on the LLM. What happens when Anthropic or OpenAI start charging what it actually costs to run their hardware? Anthropic says that they see $8/day per average user in token usage. You’ll be stuck with spaghetti code and no LLM to unravel the context for you.
I use LLM’s all the time but at least I absolutely insist on keeping my hand on the steering wheel, closely supervising and making sure to fully understand the cognitive context of what the LLM Is producing. If you don’t even know what it does, you should have your stupid LLM walk you through it at the very least. Until then, no one is going to trust your strange ai fueled fever dream.
I’m embarrassed for you.
got me on the emdash lol. fair points though, working on it
“Fair”
I’ve used Claude enough to know that even this reply was generated by it. Seriously. Wake up!
believe what you want