DubeTube

Environmental friendly streaming service
Video uploads
Video streams
Cool features
Support for comments
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Inspiration

We wished to create an environmentally friendly streaming service, which is why our creation focuses on only natural issues. We took inspiration from Hack the Valley's colour palette to form our own user interface and other streaming services to provide a more specialized field of topics.

What it does

Our web application, DubeTube, aims to be a green streaming service! With DubeTube, you can broaden your horizons as a good citizen of the planet by uploading videos about nature and the like, or watching and commenting on videos about nature and similar things. DubeTube has many cool features such as automatic video transcription and summarization; video search by tags or title using heuristics and algorithms; and home page recommendations based on cookies. You can also share videos with your friends using a QR code as the web is constantly evolving.

How we built it

We used Flask for our backend, which allowed us to access several other neat features that Python has—such as Cohere's natural language processing, a library for processing QR codes, speech recognition, and other tools.

To create an attractive and neat interface for the user, we used CSS to stylize our html templates, and javascript to facilitate certain operations.

Challenges we ran into

We faced many issues while trying to design a modern website interface with CSS—many times, we wouldn't get the result that we wished for.
The process of classifying a video as being relevant to nature or not also proved a challenge. It took lots of debugging before we were properly able to extract the audio file, covert it from speech to text, and finally classify it.
Merge conflicts often caused us to spend more time than necessary fixing issues when our written code would disappear.
Connecting to WiFi also proved a challenge sometimes as at one point, two of our four members didn't have access to WiFi on their laptops.
Domain procuring
Gradle

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We decided to build something using technology that we haven't used before. By constantly working, learning, and persevering throughout the night, we were able to create a functional product before the end of the hackathon.

What we learned

How to use Cohere
Usage of cookies
CSS
Flask
How to work as a team
- How to work together effectively (e.g. splitting tasks)
- How to communicate effectively
How to do speech to text
How to split audio files from video files
How to create QR codes
How to navigate documentation
How to debug effectively
How to research