Ask HN: Building a video publishing app in 2 months with only $5,000?

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My supervisor challenged me to create an app that showcase video posts (which can be connected to RSS feeds)and make them shareable via all social sites in two months and up to $5,000. I know there are many free app building sites, but with $5,000, I am sure I can make it better than just using free app building site. What is your advice?

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If this is motivated by a business need: Buy a subscription to Wistia for the next ~13 years, and/or Wistia plus your choice of blogging service.

If this is primarily not about video hosting but instead about getting you programming practice, this would be an exceptionally difficult first coding project due to the video and UX angles. A better first project would be building a basic blog, on which you could e.g. embed Wistia to do the heavy lifting on the video end of things.

What if we decided to use embeddable videos from vimeo and youtube?

Wordpress.com:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/

http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/

If you have better things to do than figure that out yourself, hire a Wordpress freelancer for a few hours.

Depending on your actual business goals (which you could also discuss with a freelancer - we love to chat about these things) a service like Wistia really might be a better bet than e.g. YouTube. For example, a third party's embedded ads can be kind of jarring in a business context.

Take a look at videowatchr.com and toogl.es - they get content from Youtube via JS. Are you looking for HTML5 or native apps?