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2007/3/30

How Much to Clone YouTube

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@ 03:22 PM (17 months, 17 days ago)
Following the first Vietnamese YouTube clone, others would be launched soon. How about the cost, based on my initial estimate* for the site of 1/10th of size of YouTube (as in February 2007) the workout is as follows:
    Grid-computing costs for 1 year = $4,000.00
    Storage costs for 1 year = $15,000.00
    Bandwidth costs for 1 year = $40,000.00
    Development cost = $30,000.00
    Maintenance cost = $12,000.00
    Editorial team = $25,000.00
    Grand Total =  $126,000.00
It is minimum cost for year one, so what is your revenue model? When and how you clone exit?
* Estimate used Vormiteer calculation (built with Rails).
* YouTube bandwidth costs could reach $1 million a month according to Forbes

2007/3/7

The First Vietnamese YouTube Clone

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@ 09:21 PM (18 months, 10 days ago)
Following many China firms cloning YouTube recently, Vega Technology Group launched Clip in February 2007 as the first Vietnamese YouTube clone. The user interface is similar to almost other YouTube clones. Color scheme is exactly the same with Chinese YoQoo. Clip streaming speed is better than YouTube at Clip site (access from Vietnam), but no significant different at users' blog as most Vietnamese bloggers use non Vietnamese blog services (Yahoo 360, Opera, Wordpress, Blogger and others descending order). There is no revenue model at Clip now and no social networking partner yet. We would see some MySpace, Facebook clones soon so that Clip could team up.