Short video app platform with a Shorts feed of your own

Shorts are short vertical videos published from the admin or from viewer uploads you approve. The feed presents them one at a time so a viewer moves from clip to clip, and each clip carries its own title, creator, comments and likes. The feed lives in the website and the apps, and in the phone apps it is the surface the audience will use most. The clips are transcoded through the same ladder as every other video.

A viewer can follow an account in the Shorts feed, and the platform stores that relationship as a shorts subscriber record. Following is how a creator builds an audience inside your product rather than on someone else’s. A trainer, a teacher or a serial’s lead account collects followers, and the feed can show a viewer the accounts they chose to follow.

The user-generated content feature lets a viewer upload a clip from the app. The upload lands in the admin as content you review and publish, with the same title, category and access settings as any video. There are no automated moderation tools, so a person on your team looks at each clip before it goes live, which is the right default for a branded feed. You decide whether uploads are open to everyone or to accounts you enable.

A content partner is a creator or a production house that publishes through its own portal rather than through your admin. The partner uploads, tags and describes its clips and sees its own monetization reports. It does not see your admin or other partners. This is how a fitness brand gives thirty trainers a place to post, or a regional brand gives three studios a channel each, without handing out admin logins.

Micro-drama is a confirmed feature: vertical episodic series with seasons and episodes, each episode carrying its own artwork, publish time and access rule. A serial can release an episode a day on a schedule, keep the first few episodes free, and sell the rest inside a plan or per episode. The micro-drama app development page covers the format in full; on this page it is the premium tier that turns a feed into a business.

Viewers can comment, like and dislike on any title where you leave those features on. Likes and dislikes are the signal a creator watches; comments are the community. There are no moderation tools for comments in the platform code, so decide per title whether a comment thread is worth a human reading it. A trainer’s daily drill might take comments; a children’s clip should not.

The Shorts feed is built from what you and your community publish and from follows. There is no machine-learning recommendation engine in the platform code that learns each viewer’s taste and ranks the feed for them. For a niche app with a defined audience this is workable and often preferable, because the operator controls what leads; for a general entertainment feed it is the gap to understand before you commit.

There is no tipping, no virtual gift system and no creator payout mechanism inside the platform. Creator revenue is paid out by you from your own gateway reports, using the partner portal monetization reports and the analytics to compute each creator’s share. Gift cards are not offered either. Plan your creator agreements around a monthly settlement you run, not an in-app wallet.

Viewer uploads wait for a person to review them, and comment threads have no moderation tools in the platform code. Live streams have chat without moderation tools as well. A short video app that opens uploads and comments to the public needs a review rota from day one. Many niche operators keep uploads limited to enabled accounts and comments limited to a few titles for that reason.

Clips are uploaded as finished files. There is no in-app editor, no filters or effects, and no licensed music library to add a track to a clip. Creators edit on their phone or desktop tools and upload the result. The transcoding ladder handles the encoding; it does not change the creative content of the clip.

The Shorts feed appears in the website and the apps, but a vertical feed is a phone product, and the native apps are where orientation, swiping and full-screen vertical playback feel right. The phone apps arrive with F2, so a short video operator should treat F2 as the starting plan and the website as the place viewers sign up and manage their accounts.