What building site ya movie taught me.
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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