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Show Lemmy: I built a free streaming site from scratch โ€” vanilla JS, Node.js, MongoDB, $0/month stack (eli6movies.vercel.app)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by eli6@lemmy.world to c/webdev@lemmy.world
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Built ELI6 Movies as a side project to push how far a free-tier stack can go.

Tech:

  • Frontend: pure HTML/CSS/vanilla JS on Vercel (free)
  • Backend: Node.js/Express on Render (free)
  • DB: MongoDB Atlas M0 (free)
  • Metadata: TMDB API
  • Video: third-party embeds with smart server failover

Interesting bits:

  • Multi-server failover via postMessage detection
  • Episode email notifier
  • Tiered TMDB cache
  • i18n (EN/IT/RU)
  • Android TV spatial navigation

โ†’ Watch now

Happy to answer questions about the architecture.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You can. Your AI slop just doesn't know how.

[-] eli6@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

you are right, my bad. render publishes fixed CIDR ranges per region, you can get them from the dashboard and allowlist those in atlas instead of 0.0.0.0/0. updating the readme

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