ViralVideos.com

Viral Videos was a website that aggregated and ranked videos from YouTube based on how “viral” they are. I redesigned and rebuilt the entire website as my first project working for Max Games. This project was also the first time I used NodeJS for a component of a larger system.

The website ran without content editors for 2 years after I left Max Games, closing completely in 2019 after changes to the YouTube API.

Key Features

• Multi-faceted search and filtering system that allows users to drill down on
• Cron-based NodeJS script that interfaced with the YouTube API to collect videos meeting a certain threshold of interest each day
• Custom backend for displaying collected videos for content editors to manually review
• Custom video player for content editors to quickly review a video and extract original content such as thumbnails and background artwork