This Product Requirement Specification (PRS) outlines the development phases for a comprehensive platform designed to streamline video content creation, management, and distribution for YouTube content creators and other social media platforms. The platform aims to enhance collaboration within teams, and provide tools for efficient video management and optimization.
Develop a proof of concept (POC) that demonstrates core functionalities including video uploading to AWS S3, database connectivity for storing video URLs, a basic UI for listing and streaming videos, and integration with the YouTube API for video publishing.
- Feature: UI for uploading videos to AWS S3.
- Functionality: Users should be able to select video files and upload them directly to a specified S3 bucket.
- User Feedback: Provide upload progress feedback.
- Feature: Connect to a database to store the URLs of uploaded videos.
- Database Choice: Preferably a NoSQL database like MongoDB for flexibility.
- Data to Store: Video URL, upload timestamp, video metadata (size, format, etc.).
- Feature: UI to list uploaded videos.
- Functionality: Display a list of video thumbnails and titles fetched from the database.
- Interaction: Clicking on a video thumbnail navigates to the video streaming page.
- Feature: UI to play uploaded videos.
- Functionality: Implement a video player that can stream videos from S3.
- Controls: Basic video controls (play, pause, volume, fullscreen).
- Feature: Publish uploaded videos to YouTube.
- Integration: Use the YouTube API to enable video publishing directly from the platform.
- Functionality: Allow users to select a video from the list and publish it to their connected YouTube account.
Enhance the POC with advanced features including a refined UI design, authentication system, role-based access control, team collaboration features, video version control, and social account integration.
- Feature: Overhaul and standardize the platform's UI design.
- Design Principles: Ensure the UI is intuitive, responsive, and accessible.
- Feature: Add authentication with signup/login functionality.
- Methods: Support email/password and social logins (Google, Facebook).
- Feature: Define roles (editor, manager, admin, guest) with specific permissions.
- Access Control: Restrict or grant access to functionalities based on the user's role.
- Feature: Enable team creation and management.
- Functionality: Users can create teams, invite members via email, and assign roles within the team.
- Feature: Control access to videos at an individual or team level.
- Functionality: Video uploaders can specify who can view or edit videos.
- Feature: Implement version control for edited videos.
- Versioning: Automatically assign version numbers (v1, v2, etc.) to edited videos.
- Feature: Allow users to connect multiple social media accounts.
- Supported Platforms: YouTube, Twitch, and others as feasible.
- Functionality: Enable video publishing to connected accounts.
Incorporate AI-driven tools for video optimization, and provide analytics for video performance across platforms.
- Feature: AI tools to generate video metadata.
- Functionality: Auto-generate titles, descriptions, captions, subtitles, timestamps, keynotes, and tags.
- Feature: Analytics dashboard showing video performance stats.
- Metrics: Views, likes, comments, engagements, watch time, subscriber growth across platforms.
Focus on platform scalability, enhance the UI and backend systems for better performance, and introduce a billing system for premium features.
- Feature: Tools for annotating and commenting on specific parts of videos.
- Collaboration: Enhance team collaboration with timestamp-specific feedback.
- Feature: Enhance infrastructure to support a growing user base.
- Technologies: Consider cloud scalability options, CDN for media delivery.
- Feature: Further refine the UI and integrate monitoring tools.
- Functionality: Integration with systems like New Relic or Datadog for performance monitoring.
- Feature: Implement a billing system for premium features.
- Payment Gateway: Integrate with Stripe, PayPal, or other payment services.
- Subscription Models: Offer different subscription tiers with varying feature access.
This PRS outlines a structured approach to developing a multi-phase platform designed to empower YouTube content creators and teams with efficient video management and optimization tools. Each phase builds upon the last, gradually introducing more sophisticated features aimed at enhancing the user experience, collaboration, and content performance.