LiveWorld maps YouTube's 24/7 cameras onto one globe for under $10 a month

Sapporo developer Hari Singh built LiveWorld as a solo side project, using YouTube embeds and a small Tokyo server.

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Why it matters

LiveWorld shows how a solo developer can turn public platform content into a global product cheaply. Its defensibility will come from catalog maintenance, not video infrastructure.

A computer screen displays a 3D globe overlaid with numerous small video thumbnails and glowing points, with a person's hands visible on a keyboard.

Hari Singh, a solo developer in Sapporo, has built LiveWorld, an interactive globe that turns scattered YouTube livestreams into something closer to a navigable window on the world. Spin the globe, pick a marker and the site opens a live view of the selected crossing, harbor, railway, beach or wildlife camera.…

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