jinnic / vinterest

Pinterest inspired video sharing social media web application. Utilized YouTube API for searching videos and wrote a custom library that can format shared YouTube and Vimeo links to it’s embedded link.

Vinterest

A Pinterest-inspired web application that enables users to pin their favorite videos cross-platform, including Youtube and Vimeo. Built with Ruby On Rails, SQL, YouTube API, and Bootstrap.

Live @vinterest.herokuapp.com ID: demo PW: demo

Functionality

Vinterest allows a user to:

• Sign up and create an account.
• Edit their account details.
• Add video links, edit video information, and delete video.
• View the video uploaded of other users.
• Create boards and set it to public or secret.
• Search for videos and save it to user's board.

Built With

• Ruby On Rails
• SQL
• YouTube API
• Bootstrap

Features

• Automatic videoURL change from shared link to embbed video format for Vimeo and YouTube
• YouTube video search by title
• Masonary grid with Bootstrap

Resources used

• Figma - Creating mockups/prototypes for site layout and design
• YouTube API - Fetch search result by video titles
• Bootstrap - Masonary grid and responsive design
• FontAwesome - Icons for edit, delete, secret and public