🚀 Excited to share one of my biggest full-stack learning projects so far — YouTube V2!
Over the past few weeks, I've been building a modern YouTube-inspired platform to strengthen my skills in full-stack development, scalable architecture, AI integrations, authentication, databases, and media streaming.
This project challenged me to think beyond just building a UI and focus on creating a production-style application with a complete creator workflow.
✨ What I've built
🎥 Video upload, processing & streaming with Mux
🤖 AI-powered title generation
📝 AI-generated video descriptions
🖼 AI-generated thumbnails
👤 Creator Studio Dashboard
🔐 Secure authentication with Clerk
💬 Nested comments & replies
❤️ Like / Dislike reactions
📺 Channel subscriptions
📂 Playlists
🔍 Search functionality
📱 Fully responsive design
⚡ AI-assisted creator workflow from Upload → Generate → Publish
🛠 Tech Stack
• Next.js 16
• React
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• shadcn/ui
• tRPC
• Drizzle ORM
• PostgreSQL
• Clerk Authentication
• UploadThing
• Mux
• OpenRouter AI
• Leonardo AI
• Upstash
💡 What I learned
Building this project taught me much more than frontend development.
I gained hands-on experience with:
✅ Full-stack architecture
✅ Authentication & authorization
✅ Database design with Drizzle ORM
✅ Type-safe APIs using tRPC
✅ AI integration
✅ Secure media upload & video streaming
✅ Scalable project organization
✅ Building a polished creator experience
One of the biggest challenges was connecting AI-powered content generation with the publishing workflow while keeping everything intuitive and responsive.
🚀 What's next?
This project is still under active development.
Planned features include:
• 📈 Creator Analytics
• 🎬 YouTube Shorts
• 📡 Live Streaming
• 🔔 Smart Notifications
• 🤖 More AI-powered creator tools
• 🎯 Personalized recommendations
• ⚡ Performance optimizations
I'd really appreciate your feedback!
If you were building the next generation of a YouTube platform, what feature would you add first?
💭 AI video editing?
💭 AI subtitles?
💭 Better recommendations?
💭 Live streaming?
💭 Advanced creator analytics?
Or something completely different?
I'd love to hear your ideas in the comments.
⭐ GitHub Repository
🌐 Live Demo
If you like the project, consider giving it a ⭐ on GitHub. Your feedback and suggestions will help me improve it even further.
Thank you for checking it out! 🚀
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