Problem Statement

I wanna listen to certain lengthy YouTube Playlist on my podcast app that allows auto downloads and saving preferences (like playback speed) at the podcast level.

Stats

• 10+ podcasts
• 100+ episodes
• 500+ runtime hours

Interesting challenges

• Managing deployments with CDK
• Configuring lambda to run executable binaries (to download YouTube videos)
• Iterating on different platforms for the UI (Django, Flutterflow, WeWeb}

FAQs

History

• Building a flutterflow app that talks to a lambda manager using cdk
• Deploying the flutterflow app would require money, their web app felt very basic as well
• Building a Django app to deploy this
• Became too complex and found the deployment quite complex
• Building a local script that downloads the videos then uploads to s3
• just using podman.