gighive

Welcome to GigHive!

Gighive is a media database for you, your fans, or wedding guests.

If you’re a musician

• You can use it as a library of your bands sessions, audio and video files.
• Have your fans upload videos from your gigs and utilize the footage from every conceivable angle.

If you’re a wedding photographer

• You can have your guests upload audio and video files from a wedding that you can incorporate into a compilation video.
• Collect media from everyone during the event, offload it and then spin down the compute instance after you’re done, thus saving you money.

If you are a media librarian or have a preexisting cache of media files

• You can edit the default csv file to create your own historical Gighive.

Why not just use YouTube?

• This site is for do-it-yourselfers who don’t want to be beholden to Big Tech but be the masters of their own destiny.
• Also, using Gighive frees you up from content limitations on the major providers..but plan out how you size your VM.
• With build targets such as Azure, virtualbox or bare metal, you have your choice on how to deploy Gighive.
• And although it is secure by default, Gighive was built from the ground up to live behind the Cloudflare shield.
• Last but not least, Gighive is simple. There is one page for the media library and one upload utility..that’s all.

How do I get started?

• Gighive includes a searchable, sortable one-page listing of media files and common attributes (date, location, people, rating, etc) stored in the database along with an upload utility.
• Here are instructional videos on how to standup and manage your own Gighive.

REQUIREMENTS

• Tested on Ubuntu 22.04, so the requirements are any flavor of Ubuntu 22.04 or Pop-OS, installed on bare metal.
• Your choice of virtualbox, Azure or bare metal deployment targets for the vm and containerized environment.

For the future

• Eventually, we will develop more interesting features. But for now, we’ve keeping it simple and easy to manage.

So give Gighive a try! For those with a bit of unix and command line experience, it will be a breeze to setup!

Examine the pre-requisites

View the README

License

GigHive is dual-licensed:

• MIT License: Free for personal, single-instance, non-commercial use.
• Commercial License: Required for SaaS, multi-tenant, or commercial use.

👉 Contact us for commercial licensing or for any other questions regarding Gighive.