A local creator-focused analytics platform, serving as a SocialBlade alternative for South African YouTube and Twitch content creators, providing insights into views, , subscribers and livestream performance.
The Problem
South Africa’s creator community is very fractured. Content creators do find like-minded people to create content with, but the process is a “who you know” one. This website aimed to bridge the gap and bring people closer by showing content creators others with similar-sized communities, and providing those with smaller audiences more visibility.
This project received hundreds of requests to add content creators, and a lot of them from the creator themselves.
A local streamer, ItzSmerf, even had an article featured on the site, here.
Features
- Automated data pipelines using Python, the YouTube API (subscribers, views, etc.), and the Twitch API (followers, livestreams).
- CAPTCHA-secured form for user-submitted profiles.
- Consistent branding across social media announcements and web content.
- Raw data is processed into analytics and generated large-scale. It is then displayed using tables through a custom Python-based static site generator, hosted with Nginx.
- Sprite sheet for icons. Hundreds of creators, all with small optimized images, is still countless requests. A Sprite sheet was the perfect fit for this.
- Created and maintained documentation for API usage requests and audits.
- Live YouTube video upload feed
- Live Twitch stream feed
Featured on
A local South African hosting company, HyperLayer, reached out to feature data from the ZACollective Twitch livestream feed on their website and is still visible today, on the HyperLayer Twitch Relay page where a random South African streamer is featured.
