Week #2 - Subscribing to YouTube channels

Lector is a content aggregator for the modern web, where just subscribing to RSS/Atom feeds doesn't cut anymore because everything is someone's walled garden. When it launched a bit more than a week ago, though, it could only subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds. But later today I'm deploying the ability to also subscribe to YouTube users, channels and playlists! You just enter the URL to a page on YouTube, and Lector will do the discovery and subscribe you to the content!

My goal for last week was to have deployed over the weekend so I could just move on to better things today, but certain engineering decisions early on came back to bite me, and I ended up rewriting a large portion of the web facing app. I probably shouldn't have done it so soon, but now it's done, and I like it more than before, and that leaves me pumped up to keep on writing code at least! Some other small bugs also got fixed in the process, so I know for sure it wasn't entirely in vain.

For this coming week, I intend to allow users to subscribe to subreddits on Reddit and, to help the one new user coming from a different feed reader, OPML imports and exports.

Wish me luck, and see you next week!