Ideas For Improving DTube

I believe @dtube has great potential. DTube is open source, anyone can contribute to the code! -https://github.com/dtube

I am going to share some ideas I have that may improve DTube. If anyone wants to implement any of my ideas I will pay out bounty rewards.

@Onelovedtube offers a monthly package of 10$ for IPFS storage; this is a must IMO. (shout out to @runicar for showing me onelovedtube) For having no ads and censorship resistance, that is worth something. Especially since a serious content creator could make 10$ in a month posting a few videos a week. (I would help as many serious content creators I can get their 10$ IPFS each month via upvotes) - One click option where the first of your rewards go to your IPFS membership. This will allow your videos to live forever and improve quality and loading speed. - Two of the biggest issues people have with DTube atm.

Tipping. We need a way for people to tip content creators without upvoting. It takes a healthy amount of Steem Power to upvote someone 5$. However, I know many people that would love to send a few SBD tip to content creators who otherwise can't afford to make a massive investment in Steem. I know this can be done from the wallet, but a simple button under the video that allows people to tip right there at the video would be miles better IMO. This will increase people buying up Steem to tip their favorite content creators. Also, people could use this tip feature to tip older videos that they found useful.

Video size has to be below a certain extent. - Force people to use things like handbrake to reduce video size. I should not be able to upload a bloated sized video, and we should cap the videos to 15-20 minutes max unless you pay for a IPFS storage plan. We need to optimize the platform.
Promote how to use handbrake or similar.

When Possible:
Ads. The ability for content creators to monetize via ads. DTube gets a small cut; creators get a cut and (using Braves open source code) take as much as we can to add a way for viewers to get paid as well. This will go full circle; a content creator can use funds from ads to fund IPFS account. Dtube gets paid. And people will watch ads, esp, in the beginning, to support the network and earn some extra Steem.

• Copy paste brave model: Advertiser buys Steem, funds a campaign, approved content creators get a choice if they want to show ads or not, and so do the viewers. Content creators then get paid for displaying ads on their channel automatically.

Wish List:
Add:

• Auto post button while uploading. It sucks to have to wait until it is finished uploading and having to manually click upload.
• Videos people are watching section. This will help bring good content to the front. Upvotes are one thing, but people actually watching is another.
• Bring in view count. I know view count isn't the goal and SP is. However, people still would like to know how many views they are getting and this is a must if we are talking about bringing in ads.
• Theater mode.
• Ability to set who rewards go to for that video. (charity videos etc.)
• Able to remember where you were in mid-video if it glitches out.
• My favorites sections.
• Ability to make videos private or unlisted.
• Feature video, yours or someone else's. When I go to someone's profile, they can feature someone's video or their favorite video.
• Guru videos section, for people that teach people things.

Super Santa Wish: Give a section "Most Responded Videos." Videos that are getting a bunch of comments, upvotes, views, watch time and resteems should have a section. Voting bots are one thing, but it is hard to have a bot watch the video, upvote, comment and resteem. This is a step we can take to filter the most organically watched content from the inorganic content.

It's easy to get caught up in the price and lose sight of the prize. No matter what happens we need to lean out while simultaneously moving forward.

Quotes To Float Your Boats:

"On April 23, YouTube went live, taking advantage of a $129-a-month unlimited data plan from ISP ServerBeach. That was all YouTube needed for a time."

"In the beginning of YouTube, we found that very few people came to our website," Karim recalled. "The product was so primitive that you could not even choose which videos you wanted to watch. Instead, the website picked the videos for you, randomly. Moreover, because there were so few videos, they were the same ones, over and over again."

"YouTube's team consisted of about half a dozen people by then, including Chen and Hurley. All had been working out of their homes."

"Hurley and Chen pressed on. The numbers steadily increased. After he invested, Rabois checked Alexa daily to see YouTube's progress. When it cracked the top 35,000 sites, that was a big deal."

• Source: https://bit.ly/2E1kowx

If you have any ideas for features/improvements to DTube, please list them below!