Building a little YouTube on Wagtail
2025-10-08 , Track Two

How I built a video platform (for a Pilates teacher) with Wagtail


This will be a technical walk through of a fairly unusual and complex Wagtail app which I've been working on for the last few months. The app includes:

  • on demand videos
  • live video
  • video analytics
  • API for a mobile app
  • low cost, high performance hosting on fly.io

It will be most relevant to Wagtail / Django developers, especially those interested in managing video content. In the last section I'll describe how I used LLM tools to help with design decisions and implementation.

Former CTO, Torchbox