The Future of Neptune And Its Unique Concept

Original Concept

Neptune’s original concept was an independent-first platform. Think of it like Netflix for independent content. We would have had a creator pass feature to support creators, and Neptune Plus to support our website.

However, something was not right with this idea: a simple case of too much competition and lack of resources.

The whole selling point of Neptune was the creator pass feature, however, YouTube has recently added “tiers” to their Join system. These completely eliminate the need for Neptune.

Secondly, a lot of centralized video hosting sites of any caliber always run into the issue of paying for storage nodes while efficiently providing video streams. Only big corporations like Google and Netflix are able to fund such a concept.

So, we decided to change that.

Our New Concept

Neptune, as pictured above, will now allow for a “media portal” where communication and socialization is a core focus of the videos and other content hosted on the website.

This allows for a very clean UI/UX, and gives you a very nice and easy to use portal where you can chat, watch videos from your favorite creators, and more that would most likely come out after release.

Another interesting concept is the unlimited file sharing. You may be wondering: How could that be possible? Well, it’s actually not peer to peer or stored on a server. It’s an in-between. Basically, when you upload a larger file (say over 10MB or so) instead of storing it on our server, it’d make the file available to anyone you sent it to. When they request this file, your client will upload that directly to the proxy server. The proxy server will then send it out to whoever requested it. The proxy server would most likely only host it for at most a few minutes at a time, reducing huge costs on our end, and being efficient on your end. In order to prevent malicious use of this feature, only a limited amount of users can download this at a time. You cannot use this feature to, say, host a longer-term file, at least not on a scale where thousands of people could download at once.

Yet another interesting point is because places can be self-run, this allows people to have huge control over the content that is coming through their server and being hosted there. Not only is this great for content creators (e.g higher quality and resolution video), certain people would want to be able to create a “safe spot” of sorts for their interests or personalities. For example, LGBTQ+ people could set up their own community and make their community a safe spot to upload their content. The LGBTQ+ community moderates all of the videos, messages, users and comments that come through their system, so they can strictly enforce anti-homophobic rules. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to participate there.

Overall

Overall, Neptune’s new concept will allow for a broader band of communities coming together into one cohesive product. Decentralizing fully has the issue of there being thousands of products instead of simply one. This makes it confusing for more novice users who would simply like a place to watch/host content. Full centralization gives too much control over the users and videos, and is expensive to host. Instead, the cost of hosting a large platform is divvied up into hundreds of different places.

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