Completed
Full Stack
CutThatPart
Share parts of a YouTube videos instantly without downloading it or screen recording, with a personal share link.
Overview
CutThatPart is a web app that lets users share only a specific portion of a YouTube video instead of sending the entire video or screen recording it. Users paste a YouTube URL, select the start and end timestamps, and the app processes and generates a shareable video link with a clean viewing interface. It simplifies video clipping and sharing while handling video processing efficiently on the backend.
What Does it Do?
- Accept YouTube video URL input from users
- Allow users to specify start and end timestamps
- Process video clips using yt-dlp and FFmpeg
- Generate trimmed video files dynamically
- Upload processed clips to AWS S3
- Create a unique shareable link for each clip
- Display a clean video player page with sharer details
- Handle background video processing using AWS SQS
- Deploy scalable backend services using AWS ECS and Docker
- Store metadata (clip info, sharer name, timestamps) in PostgreSQL (Neon DB)
Why I Built this
- To solve the hassle of screen recording or downloading full YouTube videos just to share a small part
- To build a strong real-world full stack project
- To work with video processing tools like yt-dlp and FFmpeg
- To gain hands-on experience with AWS cloud services
- To design a scalable backend architecture using queues and containers
Tech Stack
- Next.js
- React
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Neon DB
- AWS S3
- AWS SQS
- AWS ECS
- AWS ECR
- Docker
- yt-dlp
- FFmpeg