What building site ya movie taught me.

General

I decided to build a movie site for myself coz my favorite one went down and I need something that had the same features that it had. I had to look for video sourcing sites and I found a few and connected the site to an api that had all the movies and series and actors. I then built it with the help of AI but I had to change the backend coz of the issues I kept on having.
Notes from all this:

  • Laravel is useless when doing self hosting on dokploy and they should fix it.
  • Learning how containers work is crucial to allow testing locally and on prod.
  • Users don't understand technical terms. Simplify as much as possible.
  • Limit the server resources for a container and monitor the usage.

Posted Aug 3, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC

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