Davine
A web interface and social analytics service for Twitter's Vine
Overview
Davine was a web interface and social analytics service for Twitter’s Vine social video platform.
The Vine mobile app launched in 2013 for iOS and Android, and introduced explosive growth among video content creators. However access to the platform was limited to mobile devices, and there was no public platform to monitor a creator’s growth and engagement.
To build Davine, I reverse engineered Vine’s APIs from mobile apps and built a web interface for others to view user profiles, browse trending videos, and to interact with posts from their account, including liking, commenting, and reposting. Additionally, it aggregated and made public the analytics of a user’s Vine account, with interactive graphs of views, likes, comments, and general engagement metrics of their posts.
At peak it indexed over 7.5 million posts, and tracked the activity of over 200,000 Vine users and their engagement metrics. It was written in Go and hosted on Google App Engine using Google Cloud Datastore for data storage. After almost a year of operation, and due to a lack of revenues to help sustain costs, it was decided to sunset the service and focus on other projects.
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