Introducing Audium - A "Micro-Podcast" social web app

Dhravya

Posted on May 11, 2022

Overview of My Submission

auDium

A simple, barebones "Micro-Podcast" web app

This was made as a submission for the Appwrite x Dev Hackathon

👀 Inspiration

Short content is blowing up nowadays, with the rise of social media that provide short-form content and popular websites making a shift from long to short, it's time to make short podcasts.

This was inspired by Twitter - which is considered a "micro-blogging" platform. It's a simple way to share your thoughts, ideas, and stories.

auDium is a simple web app that does exactly that, but with audio. It's like spotify + twitter.

Submission Category: Web2 Wizards

Link to Code

Dhravya / audium-app

A simple, barebones "Micro-Podcast" social web app

auDium

A simple, barebones "Micro-Podcast" web app

This was made as a submission for the Appwrite x Dev Hackathon

👀 Inspiration

Short content is blowing up nowadays, with the rise of social media that provide short-form content and popular websites making a shift from long to short, it's time to make short podcasts.

This was inspired by Twitter - which is considered a "micro-blogging" platform. It's a simple way to share your thoughts, ideas, and stories.

auDium is a simple web app that does exactly that, but with audio. It's like spotify + twitter.

📱 Screenshots

⚙️ Built with

🔘 Where Appwrite helps:

Database : All the posts are stored in an appwrite database instance. Appwrite makes databases very easy with it's python SDK
Storage : All the audio files are stored in the appwrite storage instance.

Authentication, however, is provided by Auth0, which provides really powerful and easy…

View on GitHub

Additional Resources / Info

For the purpose of this hackathon, the app is very barebones. It's not meant to be used as a full-fledged social media yet, but I'll be constantly working on new features and improvements.

So, for now, you can consider it as a proof of concept that works

Also, the app is not hosted because I don't have the funds to host Appwrite on my own, and this projects needs quite a bit of storage too, which I don't have. So, for now, you can only use it in the development environment, on your local machine.