[0:00]Hi there, I'm RSW Fire.
[0:04]I'm making this video to make an
[0:05]announcement.
[0:08]I've decided to open source the software
[0:10]I've been building for the past year.
[0:12]Something I call Autonomy.
[0:15]It's something just yesterday I released
[0:17]as a service called Autonomy for Content
[0:19]Creators.
[0:21]It's basically a video archive platform
[0:24]that you can self-deploy
[0:30]giving you back control of your your
[0:33]videos, your catalog,
[0:36]unflattening you because that's what the
[0:39]platforms do.
[0:43]You could post videos for years
[0:49]and only the most recent one matters.
[0:55]That was very problematic for me. I had
[0:58]a YouTube channel for two years now and
[1:02]I needed to solve this problem. So I
[1:04]did.
[1:08]In the description of this video, you
[1:09]can learn about this project.
[1:13]Um, if you're interested, just follow
[1:14]this because this is going to become a
[1:16]series. I'm going to use it as um
[1:20]practical demonstration of the software
[1:22]I built because I've decided to release
[1:24]it as open source
[1:26]and I'm going to build so I'm going to
[1:28]build a new project for it. I'm going to
[1:31]deploy it somewhere and I'll use the
[1:33]videos from from just this series on
[1:36]that as as the example.
[1:40]I'm going to document key decisions I
[1:42]make. I'll share,
[1:45]you know, I'll share the repo when
[1:46]that's available.
[1:49]I'll share updates as I make them.
[1:52]I'm going to be um modifying it. So
[1:57]in some ways I'm I'm rebuilding it
[1:59]because uh I created an Laravel plus V
[2:03]but I want to switch the front end layer
[2:04]to React
[2:06]uh for no particular reason other than
[2:08]I've you know been looking at it
[2:10]recently and just something about its
[2:12]coding pattern seems to resonate with me
[2:15]and I want to try it out.
[2:17]I've been programming since the sixth
[2:19]grade taught myself. I've built systems
[2:22]all of my life.
[2:24]You can learn about me if you want to.
[2:26]That's why I have a website.
[2:31]I'm going to make this project open
[2:32]source.
[2:34]Uh the only part that's going to remain
[2:36]closed source is my API reflection
[2:38]layer, which I haven't really described
[2:40]in this video, but I'll you'll get to
[2:42]know over time, I guess.
[2:45]Um
[2:47]but it'll be a pluggable service. So the
[2:49]open source version somebody else can
[2:51]just build build their own API um
[2:53]pipeline for it. Um
[2:56]it's not complicated.
[3:01]I'll offer services, you know, my
[3:03]services to others who are using
[3:05]autonomy, who want to self-deploy it or
[3:07]need help, want me to host it for them,
[3:09]want me to extend it, build on top of
[3:11]it, that sort of thing. And that's kind
[3:14]of the model I'm going for here.
[3:18]I built autonomy for myself first
[3:20]because I needed it.
[3:24]And
[3:25]I suspect a lot of other people do, too.
[3:31]I'll leave it there for now.