Project case study
Yoinker Personal Cloud Media Platform
A self-hosted media platform for importing, organizing, and streaming a private library, with ingestion jobs, metadata editing, playlists, and radio-style playback.
Why I built it
Yoinker came out of wanting one place to pull media into, clean it up, and play it back without depending on half a dozen disconnected tools.
The project became a much larger systems exercise once ingestion, metadata, streaming, and user-facing controls all had to feel like part of the same product.
System design
The backend coordinates ingestion jobs, media processing, and stream delivery while the frontend keeps the library usable enough to browse like an actual product instead of a debugging console.
- FastAPI endpoints for authenticated ingest, metadata edits, and playlists
- yt-dlp and FFmpeg workers for imports, transcoding, and HLS-friendly outputs
- Docker Compose deployment with PostgreSQL and a streaming-ready media pipeline
