Nickel is a short-form video platform where videos are 5-minutes or less.
— Homepage: https://nickel.video
— Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/nickel/archive
Why work on this? A few reasons:
1) I wanted a place to upload my Fortnite clips. YouTube felt gross to use, if only because they're owned by Google. I'm not giving them even more info on me by choice.
2) Of all the work I've done involving the web, I've never worked with video. I was curious about it so why not see for myself how it's done?
3) I envision Nickel as being the place where creators connect with their core community and where that community (and new fans) can directly support these people financially. Every platform is incentivized to separate creators from their supporters in the service of ads. Nickel is in service of people who enjoy creating and supporting creators.
Nickel is subscription-based and is ~75% done. Currently it's just myself, my son, and one of my friends on the platform. I'm currently working on a payments product that I can dogfood with Nickel so I can have an alternative to Stripe.
You can view my profile to get a feel for the platform so far: https://nickel.video/@netopwibby 8)