The problem
Project IUoC makes free Islamic educational videos across topics such as Quran, science, philosophy and psychology. YouTube remains the distribution channel, but it is not a useful catalogue: series are hard to browse, individual lectures are not organised for discovery, and a video title is a poor way to find a subject you want to study.
What I built
- The public site: a landing page, lecture library, series pages, support information and a dedicated page for the forthcoming mobile app.
- A searchable video and playlist catalogue backed by Convex, with an individual, indexable page for each lecture so it can be shared and discovered outside YouTube.
- Automatic YouTube catalogue ingestion that keeps video and playlist metadata current while preserving the team's hand-curated ordering, visibility and tags.
- A manuscript-inspired visual system that gives the library its own identity instead of feeling like a reskinned video feed.
- Selected video-production contributions alongside the web work.
Decisions worth defending
- Keep YouTube as the viewing surface rather than rebuild a video host. The site makes the catalogue coherent and searchable, then sends viewers to the platform that already handles delivery and subscriptions.
- Treat YouTube as a source of metadata, not the source of editorial judgement. Automated ingestion can update a title or thumbnail; the team still decides which material is visible, featured and grouped together.
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