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Brevidy
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iwasrobbed / Brevidy

Brevidy

A video social network built with Ruby on Rails, HAML, Bootstrap, and jQuery.

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218GitHub stars
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What it is

A video social network built with Ruby on Rails, HAML, Bootstrap, and jQuery.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-06-05 14:33:36 UTC to 2013-11-12 08:48:50 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012013-06-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 32013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 192013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 11

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 32013-06-03 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 102013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 172013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 242013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 12013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 82013-07-08 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 152013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 222013-07-22 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 292013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 52013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 122013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 192013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 262013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 22013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 92013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 162013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 232013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 302013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 72013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 142013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 212013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 282013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 42013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 112013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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execat·Nov 12, 2013Submission

Ask HN: Commercial projects that ended up being open sourced

I am looking at Brevidy (https://github.com/iwasrobbed/Brevidy) and it looks like a really nice place to read good code. "Brevidy was a video social network that I built with Ruby on Rails 3.0.7, HAML, Bootstrap, and jQuery that was released into beta testing February 2012. Brevidy closed down shortly after due to the high costs of server hosting in addition to all of the add-on services such as video transcoding, email, error exception handling, database storage, etc. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to get investor interest without knowing a friend of a friend, so I wasn't able to afford the rising costs that accompanied the user growth." Are there other commercial projects like Brevidy that ended up being released under a FOSS license that you know of? I am primarily looking at Rails apps, but projects from all platforms are welcome.
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My intent is to create a list of such apps.
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