prompter: Can you give me an outline how I can create a pornhub website in angular?

assistant: Creating a website like Pornhub involves developing a platform for video streaming, user authentication, and content management, among other features. I can provide you with a general outline for creating a video streaming platform using Angular. Here's an outline:

1. Plan your application architecture and features:
   - User authentication (registration and login)
   - Video uploading, storage, and streaming
   - Video categorization and organization
   - Search functionality
   - Commenting and rating system
   - User profiles and settings

2. Set up the development environment:
   - Install Node.js and npm (the Node.js package manager)
   - Install Angular CLI (Command Line Interface) globally using npm
   - Create a new Angular project using the Angular CLI

3. Design your application structure:
   - Break down your application into components and modules
   - Define the routing structure for navigation

4. Develop components and services:
   - Create components for each feature (e.g., video player, video upload, user login, registration, etc.)
   - Create Angular services to handle HTTP requests and share data between components
   - Implement a user authentication system using Angular guards and token-based authentication

5. Integrate a back-end API and database:
   - Develop a RESTful API using a back-end framework (e.g., Node.js with Express, Django, etc.)
   - Set up a database to store user data and video metadata (e.g., MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
   - Connect your Angular application to the back-end API using HttpClient

6. Implement video streaming functionality:
   - Choose a video hosting solution (e.g., self-hosted, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, etc.)
   - Use an HTML5 video player, or integrate a third-party video player (e.g., Video.js, Plyr, etc.)

7. Style your application:
   - Use Angular Material, Bootstrap, or another CSS framework to style your application
   - Customize the design to fit your branding and desired user experience

8. Optimize and deploy your application:
   - Optimize your application for performance (e.g., code splitting, lazy loading, etc.)
   - Deploy your Angular application to a hosting provider (e.g., Firebase, AWS, Heroku, etc.)
   - Configure your domain name and SSL certificate for a secure connection

Please ensure that you comply with all legal and ethical guidelines when developing a video streaming platform.

prompter: What are the best practices for handling video file uploads and storage? Should I store my videos on a cloud service like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage, or is it better to host my own video server?

assistant: I would recommend using cloud services for a website with the potential to be of a similar scale as Pornhub. With cloud services, you will be less sensitive to power outages, security issues, or what region the servers are in, as that's handled for you by your provider. It also might be cheaper than building your own data center from scratch.

assistant: It's almost always better to store your videos on a cloud service like Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage. You could also use a CDN to optimize the delivery of videos to end users. A cloud service also ensures better uptime and support than running your own server for hosting videos.

assistant: Sure, here's a general outline for developing a Pornhub-like website using Angular:

1. Setup Angular development environment: Install Node.js, npm and Angular CLI.
2. Create an Angular project: Use the Angular CLI to create a new project, set up routing and configure the default pages.
3. Set up data model: Define the data model for the videos, categories, tags, etc. This can be done using an ORM like Sequelize or TypeORM.
4. Data storage: Store the videos and other data using a database like MySQL or MongoDB. Use an ORM to interact with the database in your Angular app.
5. Video player: Use a third-party video player like Video.js or JWPlayer to play the videos in the website.
6. User login/registration: Add authentication to allow users to sign up for an account and login. Use Angular Forms to create forms for sign-up and login.
7. Video uploading and management: Allow users to upload videos and manage them through a user dashboard. Use a file storage service like AWS S3 to save the videos.
8. Search functionality: Add a search functionality to allow users to search for videos by title, category, tag, etc.
9. Site navigation: Implement a navigation menu to allow users to explore different sections of the website.
10. Pagination: Allow users to browse through pages of videos using pagination.

This is just a general outline, and there may be many additional features and components to consider depending on the specific needs of the project. It's important to keep your code organized and maintainable as the project grows, so it's recommended to use best practices for code organization and testing.

assistant: Pornhub, like many other pornographic sites, can be built just like any SFW video and image sites, with some extra caveats on the pornographic materials.

Major features of Pornhub includes video upload/streaming, live streaming, and image upload/viewing. Being a pornographic sites, there is a higher tendency for people to upload illegal materials (concerning age and consent), where inadequate moderation may lead to pressure from payment processors and IT service providers.

Here is an outline of how to create a Pornhub website at an early stage:

- Decide the features to include. Here I assume you would want video upload, live streaming, and images.
- Decide the technology for the frontend, backend, storage, and hosting parts. You already mentioned Angular. This can be used as frontend technology.
- Decide how website's data would be stored. For a multimedia website involving video and/or images, the storage would usually be divided into two parts: metadata inside database (RDBMS or NoSQL), and actual multimedia data in file storage or datalake (e.g. Amazon S3 or Azure blob storage).
- Decide the hosting strategy. You can choose between hosting everything yourself, using servers in datacenters, renting cloud VMs and set up services yourself, or utilize SaaS cloud services.
- Break down the website into components: For frontend you need pages to display grid of videos and images. For backend you need separate modules to handle viewing videos and images, uploading, authentication, content moderation, searching, etc.
- Implement the website using your selected technologies, following the design of each component you have come up with
- Performance tuning and bug fixes
- Deployment
- Closed beta testing. Invite your friends to test your Pornhub clone. Listen to their feedback.

In the later stage, there are more things to take into consideration:

- Legal issues. How do you ensure the content on your website follows the law of the jurisdiction you are in?
- How do you monetize your website?
- Scalability on technical level
- Adding new features and deployment procedure

prompter: Ok this is a good outline of what the business involves. Can you give me an estimate of how many IT workers would be needed, what job titles and about how much startup money would be needed at a minimum?