🚀 Excited to share one of my biggest full-stack learning projects so far — YouTube V2!

🚀 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

https://lnkd.in/dQx5ruX7

🌐 Live Demo

https://lnkd.in/dmSf9EFv

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! 🚀