How I Built a Chinese Short Drama Streaming Platform with Next.js 16 + Turso + Vercel

Chinese vertical short dramas are a 696M-user market, but most platforms are App-only. I built xindongduanju.com - a web-first platform.

Stack: Next.js 16 + TypeScript + Tailwind v4 + Turso + Vercel

Key decisions:

• Parallel DB queries with Promise.all
• 4 sitemaps covering 160+ URLs with CDN cache
• Dynamic HLS.js loading only for .m3u8 files

Results: 211 pages, 4 languages, 125 SEO topic pages, $0/month infra.

Try it free | Source on GitHub