Youtuber Toddy finds out about Paratii and decides to migrate or mirror his YT channel here.

[jellegerbrandy]

Persona: Toddy is a mid-aged content producer with quality filmwork and respect/audience within his niche. In the case, let's say he's a director of independent music videoclips. He deals w/ cameras, cables, audio programs, codecs and stuff - has some decent notion of technology.

Trigger: Toddy read about Paratii on a newsletter, or something. He also heard from fellow producers seeking better monetisation that crypto might become a big thing on the media scene - artists tokenising themselves and stuff. He's watching the reel of a friend on a web portfolio, sees a "share this and earn" in some place in the player.

steps

• (1) Toddy searches for "mirror Youtube paratii"-like option on Google, and finds a link to the paratii YT uploader tool at https://paratii.video/upload
• (2) Toddy sees a page with several options for uploading and migrating videos, among which is a button to "upload your youtube channel"

• (3) Toddy clicks this option. Now we ask for youtube authentication. Click "youtube login". We send him to google to authenticate (something like this: https://accounts.google.com/signin/oauth/oauthchooseaccount?client_id=831371170934-udapit5jhjj56pft5l2drc9gjhfeclf3.apps.googleusercontent.com&as=-32d9798765debcac&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogle-developers.appspot.com&approval_state=!ChRoT3dCV09LTVNYY25NUWtFbUlVchIfWTNqaTF6U1NjN1VYZ0JkUzcxNXRYREdMWU1xcV9CVQ%E2%88%99AHw7d_cAAAAAWhBWyXr6qeLHshlTMDeEnqmN5bLYbwoW&xsrfsig=AHgIfE8Qn_F0yCar_ox6hNQ_xVAHd-IxXw&flowName=GeneralOAuthFlow in a popup)
• (4) Toddy is no authenticated with google, and is sent back to a page/modal/dropdown with several options for uploading and migrating videos:
  • 4.1. "Upload entire youtube channel"
  • 4.2. "Non-monetized videos only"
  • 4.3. "Choose playlist" (which turns the page into a checklist of playlists?).
  • 4.4. "Choose videos" (which turns the page into a checklist of videos?).
• (5) He chooses the option 4.2, in bold. He sees all the videos derived from the selection he made, in a checklist, and can uncheck specific ones he doesn't want to upload, and clicks on "submit"
• (6) Loading process/interface begins. We take as default the metadata taken from youtuybe.
  • 6.x ( the app sends the 3 chosen links to some paratii-uploader nodes, which take care of transcoding and publishing on IPFS )
• (7) Toddy waits till al those are downloaded, transcoded, etc, etc. He sees a status screen while waiting. He is told to "not close this tab, but feel free to navigate away and come back in a couple mins". If he navigates away, we'll (1) show a warning pop up "sure you want to leave", (2) send him an email later telling him his videos are uploaded in and visble in /playlists?channel=toddy, and he can edit them in xxxxx/xxxx.
  ---[transcoding takes about 160% of the playing time fo the video. In theory, this can be done in parallel for several videos - i.e. transcoding 10 videos should take (if we ahve 10 transcoders available) takes 1.6 times the length of the longest vid] ---
  • 7.1. Along the status/progress, Toddy sees (1) a miniature of the interface he'll soon have to edit metadata of the video, along with a text/helper maybe; (2) a brief explanation of serverlessness; (3) an explanation of "soon you'll be able to earn money with all this, thanks for being w/ us at this point of the journey". This can all happen slowly, as Toddy will have shifted tabs to do many other things meanwhile. The tab blinks when things are done.

• (8) Once the videos are available, Toddy can now:
  • 8.1. See them all in a list/nice interface, as they were organised in YT (as for playlists, and featured). Move them around (drag and drop?) to edit playlist composition if needed, or isolate a different video for being featured. Yes, featured video feature :).
  • 8.2. Click on an universal button for video/playlist thumbs and edit each one's Title, Description, Tags, Content Owner (what do you think of making this as a "seal", that appears on video's descriptions page, eventually, with the avatar of the guy who owns the content and the manner through which he proved this? In this case, Toddy's face with a small YT icon along it, in a sleek icon. In Phil Murray's case, his profile pic w/ an IMDB little badge...)

• 9 Two Buttons in the end of the playlist reogranizing, maybe at the bottom of the interface: Monetise / Publish. Publish goes live, gives Toddy a nice view of his "channel", which is his avatar, name, and content, for now. At this point, he's given the option to (1) add a little description for himself and (2) social links (e.g. what a Medium profile looks like). The rest is his videos.
  • 9.1. For now we'll just have Publish. But when we add "Monetise", we'll have a range of options here. I'll explore them in the next days :)

[felipegaucho]

...integrated felipes comment in the description....

[pedrocasa]

• Is there a possible way for him doing it in a fractional way? I.e. If he doesn't have more battery would at least some videos be available to upload?

[jellegerbrandy]

@felipegaucho : I moved the authentication-with-google moment a bit earlier in yr flow.

to keep focus, we probably will want to move the "editing vidoes and playlists" part in a separate use case

[toddyivon]

Toddy loves everybody involved in this project ;-)