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I Was Building a Cloud Video Service. YouTube Turned Me Into an IP Trafficker.

Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I Was Building a Cloud Video Service. YouTube Turned Me Into an IP Trafficker.

I tested 7 ways to download YouTube videos from a server. All failed except buying residential proxies. Here's the cost analysis.

6 Ways to Get YouTube Cookies for yt-dlp in 2026 — Only 1 Works

Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky 🔧 Backend Engineering 4mo ago

6 Ways to Get YouTube Cookies for yt-dlp in 2026 — Only 1 Works

I tried DPAPI, CDP, rookiepy, OAuth2, and Bearer tokens to extract Chrome cookies. All failed. Firefox solved it in 10 lines of Python.

7 Failed Attempts to Create One Cloud Server on Alibaba Cloud

Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

7 Failed Attempts to Create One Cloud Server on Alibaba Cloud

I needed a VPS for my video merging backend. Alibaba Cloud made me try 7 different instance/zone/disk combinations before one finally worked.

3 Deployment Fails That Made Me Quit Oracle Cloud Forever

Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky 4mo ago

3 Deployment Fails That Made Me Quit Oracle Cloud Forever

I tried to deploy a Telegram bot to Oracle Cloud Free Tier. After 2 hours of UI bugs, capacity errors, and a card-locked account — I switched to Fly.io.

I Tried to Merge 52 Video Files Automatically. Here Are 3 Bugs That Almost Killed the Project

Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I Tried to Merge 52 Video Files Automatically. Here Are 3 Bugs That Almost Killed the Project

How a personal pain of merging hours of strategy session recordings turned into a self-hosted video merging service — and 3 production bugs I didn't see coming.

Why the Boston Metro Map Designer Built Me a Calendar

Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky 📣 Digital Marketing & Growth ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

Why the Boston Metro Map Designer Built Me a Calendar

A 14-year journey from hand-printed calendars to a zero-dependency SVG generator — with plotter printing, Miro integration, and a PDF bug that looked correct on

I Built a Life Timeline Tool That Coaches Say You Shouldn't Use

Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I Built a Life Timeline Tool That Coaches Say You Shouldn't Use

A zero-dependency browser tool that turns your entire life into a printable Gantt chart — born from real strategic sessions, not a tutorial.

I Built a Telegram Bot That Solves the "What Time Is It For You?" Problem

Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky 📰 AI News & Updates 4mo ago

I Built a Telegram Bot That Solves the "What Time Is It For You?" Problem

A serverless Telegram bot that converts one message into a timezone-aware meeting card with Google Calendar link and personal DM reminders.

I Tried to Build a One-Click Deployer — Here's What Actually Happened

Dev.to · Maxim Osovsky ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 5mo ago

I Tried to Build a One-Click Deployer — Here's What Actually Happened

I built a landing page promising "Deploy to anywhere as easily as Vercel." Then I actually tried to deploy something. The gap between the promise and reality wa