YouTube Instant. The last two days…

September 11th, 2010 | 153,404 views | 251 Comments » |

The last two days of my life have been amazing, insane, sleepless, and humbling!

Front Page of VentureBeat

After the Google Instant announcement on Wednesday, I decided to build YouTube Instant, a site that lets you search across the vast YouTube video database in real-time.

Visit YouTube Instant

It started out as a bet with my roommate, Jake Becker. I bet him I could build real-time YouTube search in less than an hour. Sadly, I lost the bet – It took me 3 hours to finish it, and another couple hours to polish the user interface into what you see now at YTInstant.com. But, I’m happy with the result.

Before going to sleep on Thursday night, I posted this status update to my 700 Facebook friends:

Original Youtube Instant status update that started it all

After updating my status, I went to sleep. I awoke Friday morning to an inbox full of people congratulating me on YouTube Instant, sending me links to press coverage, and sharing it by the thousands on Twitter and Facebook.

The Washington Post called to do an interview, Venture Beat put my picture on their front page, and Mashable wrote a front page story …twice. YouTube Instant also made it to the All Things Digital front page and the Hacker News home page three times.

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley even asked me if I wanted a job …over Twitter!

YouTube CEO Twitter Conversation about YouTube Instant

The Media Frenzy

I can’t believe how much press my simple little tech demo has received! I’m both proud and humbled at the same time.

Here’s a list of the media outlets that have covered YouTube Instant so far:

Update [1/17/2012]: Here is a list of even more media articles that I never got a chance to look at or post here.

Needless to say, YouTube Instant has gone viral. Without pausing to worry about what caused this magical event to transpire, I set about upgrading my under-powered server to a much beefier configuration capable of handling the Slashdot effect. For most of Friday morning, my server was visibly struggling to serve the flood of web traffic.

After several nerve-racking minutes with the site offline, I finished the upgrade and got the site back online. I had to keep tweaking the Apache server settings on the live site to keep memory usage from spiking and locking up the server. Things eventually stabilized.

My Network Traffic - Last 30 Days

My Network Traffic - Last 30 Days

I built YouTube Instant using a combination of the YouTube API and YouTube search suggestions. I initially ran into some issues when Google automatically blocked my server for making too many repeated requests.

However, it took me 5 minutes to rewrite the site to query YouTube directly for search suggestions, eliminating the round-trip to my server. Now, all the magic happens in each visitor’s browser, so it’s faster than ever. (Thanks to Jake Becker for reminding me that <script> tags don’t have cross-domain restrictions!)

Thanks so much!

Thank you everyone for all your nice comments, helpful suggestions, and for spreading the word about YouTube Instant. I’m going to work hard over the coming days to make YouTube instant more full-featured – and even faster than it is now. Stay tuned!

Update: I met Chad Hurley (YouTube CEO) at YouTube HQ!

Update: YouTube Instant received 1 million visitors in 10 days!


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251 Comments on “YouTube Instant. The last two days…”

  1. 1 Jonha @ Happiness said at 9:56 pm on September 11th, 2010:

    You sound like you still can’t believe your “luck”, and I hope you keep that humble attitude.

    Keep doing simple yet relevant things because from small and simple things is where great things can come to pass.

    Have a ProsFeross career ahead of you!

  2. 2 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 10:02 pm on September 11th, 2010:

    Thank you for the nice words!

  3. 3 Jordan said at 10:23 pm on September 11th, 2010:

    Hey man, you deserve the press. A good idea deserves some response.
    So word on the street is you’re working at Facebook?

  4. 4 QOT said at 10:53 pm on September 11th, 2010:

    I just love your Youtube Instant. We blogged about it too and I am sure our readers will enjoy it too
    http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2010/09/youtub-instant-fastest-way-to-watch-youtube-videos/

  5. 5 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 11:06 pm on September 11th, 2010:

    That’s correct. I’m a software engineer intern at Facebook. :)

  6. 6 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 11:08 pm on September 11th, 2010:

    Awesome article. You spelled my name wrong, though. Otherwise, nice job!

  7. 7 Youtube Instant: Fastest Way to Watch Youtube Videos said at 11:15 pm on September 11th, 2010:

    [...] Instant is the creation of Feross Aboukhadijeh, a computer science student at Stanford University, who bet with his roommate (after the launch of [...]

  8. 8 QOT said at 11:23 pm on September 11th, 2010:

    Fixed it. Thanks.

  9. 9 Matt Bush said at 2:30 am on September 12th, 2010:

    I know I’ve said this multiple times already, but congrats Feross! Stanford CS, Facebook, and the world need more fearless and creative hackers like you. :)

  10. 10 Chris said at 2:42 am on September 12th, 2010:

    I still can’t believe you got offered a job at YouTube OVER TWITTER! That’s really amazing.

  11. 11 Egzon said at 4:04 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Congrats, you did a great job now you’re getting what you deserve!

  12. 12 Dalejandro said at 4:06 am on September 12th, 2010:

    you really hit the nerve on this, already changing the way i approach projects from now on, and what i expect of the “web design experience”. The search “suggestions” are so accurate it gets scary. Cheers on your success and thanks for sharing it!

  13. 13 Nuno said at 5:29 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Add playlist support and your site is much better than youtube.

    Your idea was much better than google instance – mostly because youtube as such a in your face interface and people mostly use it to listen to music :)

    kudos keep it up

  14. 14 bestbuzz said at 5:40 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Hello
    You are now on french reference website bestbuzz
    Here is my article : http://www.bestbuzz.fr/?p=16954

    Congratulations !

  15. 15 Richard Wing said at 5:40 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Congratulations on your idea and your job offer. Please let us know what you decide about their offer. I wish you the best.

  16. 16 Alex said at 6:18 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Hi. My name is Alex, I am from Romania, Europe, I’m 15 years old and I am also passionate about computers. I really apreciate your projects and I wish you luck in your work.

    I would like to talk more with you.

    Bye.

  17. 17 YouTube Instant | LA MACHINE A ECRIRE .NET said at 6:24 am on September 12th, 2010:

    [...] disponible Google Instant, le moteur de recherche en temps réel de Google, est déjà imité. Feross, un étudiant de Stanford en Californie a crée YouTube Instant. Un moteur de recherche en temps [...]

  18. 18 Scott said at 6:24 am on September 12th, 2010:

    If you’re gunna do it, do it right.
    You’re including Google’s Font API incorrectly, if you want more than one font, you split the families with | instead of making a new link.

    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Reenie+Beanie' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Yanone+Kaffeesatz:regular,bold' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

    Becomes…

    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Reenie+Beanie|Yanone+Kaffeesatz:regular,bold' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

    Unless the [/code] tags don't work, in which case imagine that HTML in fancy colors.

  19. 19 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 6:41 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Thanks for the tip! I just added it to the site.

  20. 20 Scott said at 6:47 am on September 12th, 2010:

    I’m surprised you never picked up on this sooner, it’s listed on the first page of their documentation. I’m a 15-yr-old web developer (with Java experience) by the way, your story really jumped off the page when I noticed yesterday. Best of luck to you if you decide to take the job with YouTube.

  21. 21 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 7:07 am on September 12th, 2010:

    I knew about the trick, but when I coded the site I wasn’t concerned with making things perfect. I coded it in 3 hours, after all. :) It was meant as a tech demo, a proof-of-concept.

    Now that the site is suddenly popular, I’m going back and cleaning things up to eek out as much performance as I can.

  22. 22 Scott said at 7:11 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Yeah with the media surge I can certainly imagine the server is quite stressed! Good thing you were hot-linking the YouTube database scripting instead of making your own PHP back-end or I doubt it’d still be online. ;)

  23. 23 Barkha Dhar said at 7:27 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Feross,
    This is really great stuff. Congrats on the recognition.

  24. 24 Barkha Dhar said at 7:28 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Feross,
    This is really great stuff. Congrats for the recognition.

  25. 25 Simone said at 7:53 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Did they at Facebook offered you a job before Youtube? Like, minutes, or do you work there for a while and couldn’t get the job at Youtube? Congratulations :)

  26. 26 Sid said at 9:26 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Love YTinstant. Awesome it is! ;)

  27. 27 ArpitNext said at 10:02 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Nice to read your experience. Happened to me in past. :)

    This proves that the independent developers are more (OK, at least “equally”) innovative than the hired / employed ones.

    Keep on the great job!

  28. 28 Mikey said at 10:47 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Great work :) Use your site more than YouTube now ;)

  29. 29 chris said at 11:50 am on September 12th, 2010:

    Props! Like vidinotes.com, your app recognizes the many uses of YT content! Keep up the innovation!

  30. 30 iGotDug » Instant YouTube Job offer – Latest,Instant Images & Maps said at 1:17 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    [...] Instant release encouraged a computer science student at Stanford University called Feross Aboukhadijeh [...]

  31. 31 Álvaro Salcoedo said at 2:49 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    Estoy impresionado por tu trabajo, pero aún más porque te rehuses a trabajar en Youtube. ¡Genio!

  32. 32 mensajes claro said at 3:54 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    You are so smart , I love it .
    You are right ArpitNext , New developers are away from the biggest companys , We know as baidu were created for smallers now they are bigger in china , Keep it goin.

  33. 33 Sree said at 5:45 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    Great job, you deserve the recognition. Good luck!

  34. 34 Gregor Erdmann said at 6:23 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    The best thing about ytinstant, is that its not blocked at work yet!

    …Actually let me change my mind. The best thing. NO ADS!

    Marvelous stuff.

    Tested it with a few search terms and it was spot on each time.

  35. 35 Jose said at 7:58 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    Hi I saw the notice through El Comercio(a newspaper from Peru), and I like your App =) its so much easier to watch the videos. Im studing system engineering and Im taking courses about how to create softwares I like eaither all these things =) byee =)

  36. 36 Robin said at 8:14 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    Congratz and wishing you the very best Feross. :) Wrote a review in my tech blog with little highlights of required feature :)

    http://www.dailytut.com/videos/youtube-instant-search-unofficial.html

  37. 37 bosweb said at 8:25 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    Good for you Feross, I loved hearing of your positive outcome and especially of the lightbulb that went off in your head – what a great idea (and congratulations to Chad Hurley for identifying that in you as well) Keep at it and looking forward to hearing more!

  38. 38 Phill Ohren said at 8:49 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    Congratualtions Feross! It’s so inspiring to see how this great oppotunity has unfolded for you. Keep up the great work :)

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  40. 40 Aaron said at 10:07 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    Congrats Feross.. Love the search. Good luck on your new offer with yt :)

  41. 41 Youtube Instant Search [Unofficial] said at 10:20 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    [...] web users. Mean time, you can enjoy the Youtube Instant Search developed by Feross Aboukhadijeh (website), student of Stanford University. He built this cute search option for youtube video in just 3 [...]

  42. 42 Binny Paul said at 10:40 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    Amazing!!

  43. 43 Twitter: ook voor je nieuwe baan | Twittermania said at 11:07 pm on September 12th, 2010:

    [...] of YouTube Instant zag het licht. Dat Feross iets opmerkelijks gepersteerd had blijkt wel uit het mediacircus dat hierna losbrak. Maar het mooiste kwam nog wel van Chad Hurley; CEO van YouTube. Die zag wat [...]

  44. 44 Yo ! Hack | Blog | Youtube Instant ! Launched . said at 12:28 am on September 13th, 2010:

    [...] http://www.feross.org/youtube-instant-media-frenzy/ [...]

  45. 45 encoder said at 12:47 am on September 13th, 2010:

    nice one. i wonder why did it took you so long?

    so every time search suggestions chance you display the number one video according to the query. that is a lot of communication to the servers + the stream of the video. now if you could optimize it you’ll probably be a genius ;) .

    you have all my respects for doing this on your spare time.

  46. 46 Naf said at 1:28 am on September 13th, 2010:

    Congrats man. Good work. loving youtube instant. will spread the word.

  47. 47 谷歌即时搜索网络上的混搭启示 « My China – 我的中国 said at 1:56 am on September 13th, 2010:

    [...] Feross Aboukhadijeh ，宣布了这一消息推出的黑客。它突然的流传 ，两天后，YouTube上提供Aboukhadijeh工作。 [...]

  48. 48 Pawel said at 2:17 am on September 13th, 2010:

    Great stuff!
    Hope facebook won’t give you any legal hassles (I mean, if you’re working for them at the moment, they may try to claim credit for your idea).

  49. 49 Youtube Instant : succès immédiat pour un étudiant de Stanford said at 2:17 am on September 13th, 2010:

    [...] : Feross.org About the [...]

  50. 50 Senioren-Brot und Hör-Spiel | Ehrensenf said at 2:57 am on September 13th, 2010:

    [...] 4a) Job-Angebot – http://www.feross.org/youtube-instant-media-frenzy/ [...]

  51. 51 Jonha @ Happiness said at 3:01 am on September 13th, 2010:

    That’s funny because that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking. I hope the media frenzy won’t get to our network administrators that fast so we could get to enjoy this privilege longer! haha

  52. 52 Jonha @ Happiness said at 3:04 am on September 13th, 2010:

    Well that’s funny because that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking. I hope the media frenzy won’t get to our network administrators that fast so we could get to enjoy this privilege longer! haha

  53. 53 自分のことばで語った Feross Aboukhadijeh « maclalala:link said at 3:32 am on September 13th, 2010:

    [...] “YouTube Instant. The last two days…” by Feross Aboukhadijeh: 11 September [...]

  54. 54 Teoh said at 6:41 am on September 13th, 2010:

    Thanks Feross!

    You Rock You Tube!

    It not only searches faster but loads instantly too!
    Though have a little suggestion, is there any way to display the title for the clip we have selected or are watching?

    Thanks again!

  55. 55 Neyber Becerra said at 7:46 am on September 13th, 2010:

    if your project specific and want to give a good appearance and good design do not hesitate to contact me …

  56. 56 Luis Rodriguez said at 7:49 am on September 13th, 2010:

    Hola, soy de Colombia, esta increible lo que hiciste no se como lo hiciste pero es lo mejor del mundo… quisiera saber un poco sobre como llegas hacer esto…
    INCREIBE !!!

  57. 57 Anant said at 11:48 am on September 13th, 2010:

    Wow, your YouTube instant is quick and simple. Great work

  58. 58 Daneil Franston said at 12:22 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    Hi Feross,

    Congratulations on your great success, one idea for you it to enable auto-play, once one song finishes playing, the next begins. You tube does not have this but it would be worth getting that up and running.

    Cheers,

  59. 59 Joey Toh | Post Aboshop said at 12:51 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    Hi Feross,

    I read about your project YouTube Instant today and immediately tried out YTInstant.com. Both your blog and the YTInstant site were rather slow. Probably becos of the high traffic volumes due to the media hype. Really like the instant search ;-)

    I must say I admire young talents like yourself. Am really impressed of what you achieved with a good idea and quick work.

    Have commented about you in both my facebook and twitter accounts, to keep the viral campaign going ;-)

    All the best for your future. Sure you will find your way…. Cheers, Joey from Germany

  60. 60 Bharat said at 12:51 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    hey congrts on your achivement and all the best for your further progress

  61. 61 Carlo said at 1:17 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    Famous in Italy too!
    http://goo.gl/ma7j

    Congratulations!

  62. 62 @Iconic88 said at 1:35 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    AWESOME work Feross!! Love how you just went and built it then improved on it.

    800% inspirational story for many!!

    Would you mind a “micro-interview” of just one question to share a part of your story with others around the world? My email is attached.

    Let’s get you some more love.

    All the best!!!
    @Iconic88

  63. 63 JotaParro said at 3:03 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    hi! I’m just another Internet geek… Congratulations on your recent popularity, if you find it cool!. I just wanted to congratulate you for your simple and effective proposal and your curious story (as fitted to all this commotion and others, the story whether he deserves a movie) … Finally congratulations and apology me the machine translation, but in Spain some we still have the worst level of English … The only thing is that it will be dificult to improve, at least the experience! remains in the gap!

  64. 64 Instant « said at 3:17 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    [...] de esta revolución (ya va a salir la segunda, van a ver) es la que hizo el hacker californiano Feross Aboukhadijeh llamada Youtube Instant que usa el mismo sistema nuevo de Google pero para encontrar [...]

  65. 65 yonar said at 3:52 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    tu si la sabes hacer desde que lo vi me gusto y despues me entere que recien lo habias creado ..

  66. 66 Marcos said at 4:01 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    Now I know you.
    Brazilian media says: Student creat youtube instant and receive a job offer. (text in Portuguese)
    http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2010/09/estudante-cria-youtube-instant-e-recebe-proposta-de-emprego.html

    Congratulations for your work.
    Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil.

  67. 67 Flávio Luciano said at 4:34 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    Congratulations! I read the news about your Youtube Instant in press coverage here in Brazil. Amazing!
    Take a look:
    http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2010/09/estudante-cria-youtube-instant-e-recebe-proposta-de-emprego.html

  68. 68 Cómo hacerse famoso y humillar a YouTube en tres horas | CafeZine said at 4:45 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    [...] donde hace prácticas como programador. La historia se volvió imparable el viernes. Como él mismo cuenta en su blog: “Después de actualizar mi estado, me fui a dormir. Me levanté el viernes por la mañana con [...]

  69. 69 Tejaswinee said at 4:54 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    Hi Feross,

    Great work.. Congratulations!!!

    I loved it. One thing i would like to mention is, When i tried it on my PC, it worked fine. But when I tried it on my dell laptop, video was being played correctly but, I could not hear the sound.

  70. 70 links for 2010-09-13 « links and tweets said at 5:06 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    [...] YouTube Instant. The last two days… – Feross.org [...]

  71. 71 alex said at 5:25 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    hi,soy alex escribo desde Lima-Peru,tengo tu misma edad, queria mencionarte lo increible de tu sitio de busquedas de video , todos los medios de comunicacion masivos estan hablando de el , felicidades man!!

  72. 72 Felipe said at 5:35 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    Hey, check http://www.emol.com/noticias/tecnologia/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=435953

    Chilean newspaper about you :)

    Felipe R.

  73. 73 Google Instant Inspires Imitators for YouTube, Maps, Images | CloudGo! said at 5:57 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    [...] using a combination of the YouTube API and scraping YouTube search suggestions,” Aboukhadijeh wrote on his blog Sept. [...]

  74. 74 Güatdefaquer: historias felices para internautas felices | Pateando Piedras said at 6:24 pm on September 13th, 2010:

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  75. 75 Biweekly Links – 09-13-2010 « God, Your Book Is Great !! said at 6:32 pm on September 13th, 2010:

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  76. 76 Karthikeyan said at 7:47 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    YTinstant seems to be forbidden plz check it :)

  77. 77 andresdelncho said at 8:03 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    este muchacho es un fenomeno.. y lo peor es que tiene 19 años…

  78. 78 Cómo hacerse famoso y humillar a Youtube en 3 horas « Este Blog es said at 9:16 pm on September 13th, 2010:

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  79. 79 keralafarmer said at 9:37 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    Thanks a lot & Congratulations on your successful achievement. I know about it from a Malayalam Daily news paper from Kerala, India. I saw the search result “keralafarmer Rubber” which I posted in youtube within a second on YouTubeInstant.

  80. 80 Praveen Yadav said at 10:08 pm on September 13th, 2010:

    Good Job, kid:)

    world needs couple of more kids to transform the internet search age. I can proudly say that the internet is in safe hands when I see youngsters like yourself.

    Congratt for the YT offer and party hard!!!

  81. 81 Como hacer famoso y ridiculizar a Google en 3 horas | Posicionamiento Web said at 11:07 pm on September 13th, 2010:

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  82. 82 Google Instant Inspires Instant Imitators | eWEEK Europe UK said at 12:05 am on September 14th, 2010:

    [...] using a combination of the YouTube API and scraping YouTube search suggestions,” Aboukhadijeh wrote on his blog on 11 [...]

  83. 83 Visit to YouTube HQ to meet Chad Hurley - Feross.org said at 12:59 am on September 14th, 2010:

    [...] Instant is clearly a hit among web users, and I’m thankful for all the positive feedback I’ve received! I look forward to [...]

  84. 84 Anoop Nair said at 1:29 am on September 14th, 2010:

    cool dude..it looks great..btw, I feel it will be nice if remove the fancy font styling of the text just right to the text box..best wishes again!!

  85. 85 Fahad Ahmed said at 2:54 am on September 14th, 2010:

    AWESOME work there….luv it…!!
    keep it up…!!
    ppl like u make our life easier…!!

    CONGRATS on ur success…!!

  86. 86 RAHUL said at 5:20 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Great work…Congratulations!all the best dude..

  87. 87 Jerome L. said at 5:51 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Awesome creation! :D

  88. 88 Feross Aboukhadijeh entwickelt Youtube Instant said at 6:31 am on September 14th, 2010:

    [...] Youtube Instant kann man auf der Webseite ytinstant.com ausprobieren, weiteres zu dieser sehr glücklichen Geschichte für den jungen Entwickler erfährt man auf feross.org. [...]

  89. 89 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 7:06 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Thanks for all the comments everyone! I don’t have time to respond to each one individually right now, but I appreciate every single one! Thanks!

  90. 90 jaseem said at 7:21 am on September 14th, 2010:

    There is a mistake in the list of media outlets.Mathrbhumi is not from Malaysia,.It is from Kerala, India and the language used is Malayalam(The language of Keralites.

  91. 91 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 7:35 am on September 14th, 2010:

    I just fixed it – thanks!

  92. 92 YouTube Instant’s instant fame said at 8:02 am on September 14th, 2010:

    [...] Feross Aboukhadijeh, created the YouTube Instant on Thursday and woke up Friday morning to find: The Washington Post called to do an interview, Venture Beat put my picture on their front page, [...]

  93. 93 La «fiebre de lo instantáneo» se extiende por Internet, creando héroes a su paso - Colegios Equilingues said at 8:54 am on September 14th, 2010:

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  94. 94 Saraswathi said at 9:21 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Awesome :) loved it great job :)

  95. 95 pavan said at 9:35 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Honestly, i dont know why this went crazy.

    This website is just a waste of time from a “USE” perspective from a “COOL” of course is something new which is why this went “MAD”.

    You can make this “MUCH MUCH BETTER”, welcome to the industry.

  96. 96 YouTube Instant | Online Marketing Blog Ireland | said at 9:36 am on September 14th, 2010:

    [...] While this is not an official enhancement, it’s still a neat little feature that got a student a job offer from Mr Facebook so it’s definitely worth sharing [...]

  97. 97 Casix said at 9:46 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Why not help me too

  98. 98 Hyrdesh Gangwar said at 9:54 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Dude….. u r really amazing…….. and ur search engine is really fantastic …… and itz hard to believe that someone can develop such a great creation in just few hours…….

    HATS OFF TO YOU …………

  99. 99 Wendell Rodrigues said at 9:58 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Hi Feross, congrats! Really cool. So, how about video controls…play, forwarding. Just a suggestion.

    good job.

  100. 100 Kobayashi Blog » Blog Archive » Streaming dei contenuti e funzione Instant, ecco come prende forma il nuovo Youtube said at 10:07 am on September 14th, 2010:

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  101. 101 J. said at 10:17 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Congratulations!

    PS: Globo is from Brazil, not Spain ;]

  102. 102 Bryon said at 11:38 am on September 14th, 2010:

    Hello, I noticed your work an it is awesome. I am an 18 year old developer. What do you go too college for, because this type of thing is exactly what I would like too do. I already am a private contractor for a small company in game development. Recently I have been getting into PHP and CSS though.

    Like I said it looks great, only one problem I am having is that the logo is fixed. So when I minimize the screen it moves and covers the text box. I know you built it for just a bet, and not for looks. Just offering advice. For “#logo” Add “float: left;” in place of “position: fixed;” and also add “margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px;”

    That should make it look nicer. I hope to talk to you more in the future. Best of luck.

  103. 103 asker said at 11:55 am on September 14th, 2010:

    What’s a DM?

  104. 104 chirikuto said at 11:55 am on September 14th, 2010:

    es una mierda este youtube instant pelotudo no tuviste otra idea mejor que esta puberto de cuarta

  105. 105 Chris said at 12:00 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    you really are a genius !!!!

  106. 106 Chris said at 12:00 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    you really are a genius !!!! GREAT !!!

  107. 107 Phil said at 12:05 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    Awesome, dude!

    Would be great to have a full screen option, too. :p

  108. 108 Henk said at 12:40 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    Hi Feross, we like your creativity. Kind regards from Holland.

    We just published YouTube instant : http://www.dutchcowboys.nl/youtube/20451

  109. 109 Ash said at 12:51 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    Nice work! One of the students from Down Under did a similar thing about a year ago! Check this out – http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090821/the-real-live-search-bing-api-experiment/

    Interestingly enough, he didn’t get this much fame or publicity!

  110. 110 Paresh Mundade said at 2:12 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    Dude! this is phenomenal and the suggestions are scarily accurate. I have always thought of someone should come up with a better/faster search for youtube and there this product is!!
    Keep doing such demos.

    Ask: Can you do a tool/site while accumulates all articles posted on one’s news feed on FB at one place on the feed to read quickly? :-) Kinda Google Flip.

  111. 111 YouTube Instant: búsqueda en tiempo real en YouTube « Noticias y Artículos said at 2:17 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    [...] en el servicio de Google Instant que ya fue lanzado. De hecho, este proyecto fue solo una apuesta, según cuenta él mismo en su blog, donde debería hacer la aplicación en menos de una hora, aunque duró 3 horas para [...]

  112. 112 Sheshi said at 3:18 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    Congrats and U deserve the publicity. btw thanks for the instant on Google.

  113. 113 Hugo Freitas said at 5:28 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    Globo is from Brazil…

  114. 114 Dave Aldarondo said at 5:41 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    The most practical application of youtube instant is in music.

  115. 115 Walter said at 5:53 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    Dear Feross (that sound like “Feroz” in my language spanish that means Wild!! )

    Let me tell you that I “heard” about you today while drinking a coffee, inmediatly I went to home and wanted to try your app… It really rocks!

    Well my friend, Regards!

    From Lima, Peru!
    And remember, if you want to visit “Machu Pichu” in cuzco you have someone to help you!

    “Buena suerte y esperemos mas desarrollos”

  116. 116 Ranjith said at 7:18 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    Great work dude.
    Hearty congrats.
    You are amazing just like ytinstant!

  117. 117 YouTube Instant Is Wild « Web Developers said at 9:59 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    [...] I came across one project designed to make YouTube, a bit more instant. Aptly called YouTube Instant, this project was apparently done as a dare/bet between two [...]

  118. 118 CMS Theme said at 10:44 pm on September 14th, 2010:

    Awesome! Really love Youtube Instant.

  119. 119 SimonSimCity said at 1:35 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Hi

    It’s a great work ;)
    But please rename the media “Golom” to “Golem”.
    http://www.golem.de/1009/77916.html

    Bye
    Simon

  120. 120 Laurentius said at 1:46 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Congratulations :-)
    You really did a cool thing!

    I allowed myself to use your Youtube Instant as an inspiration for a Flickr Instant :-) (allthough yours definitely rocks!)

    Have a look: http://bit.ly/9x3OLE

    Bye :-)

  121. 121 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 1:54 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Thanks for posting! Awesome demo you got there!

  122. 122 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 2:07 am on September 15th, 2010:

    I just fixed it. Thanks!

  123. 123 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 2:08 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Thanks, I just fixed it!

  124. 124 Laurentius said at 2:58 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Well, thank You for inspiring me to this :-)

  125. 125 Giulia Marianna Lentini (IT) said at 3:09 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Congratz and wishing you the very best Feross for your further progress. Loving Youtube Instant! _giulia_

  126. 126 Sergio Mani said at 4:16 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Man, congrat x 1.000 !!

    What a nice surprise !!

    It didn´t happen since Columbus Egg !!

    You deserve all that press.

    Keep it going.

  127. 127 YouTube Instant – Online Video Results As You Type | Mobile & Video In Recruitment said at 5:32 am on September 15th, 2010:

    [...] A great story which you can read about here [...]

  128. 128 YouTube Instant goes instant viral « Flip Sitch said at 5:37 am on September 15th, 2010:

    [...] YouTube CEO.  His Instant page and his blog have exploded with hits and went viral literally overnight.  Congrats to the Standford student for such a huge success on something that started off as a bet [...]

  129. 129 Ricerca In Tempo Reale:Youtube Instant | Youtube Tempo Reale said at 5:52 am on September 15th, 2010:

    [...] Per testare questa funzione il sito è raggiungibile a questo link, mentre per la storia di come è nato il progetto vai al blog dell’autore. [...]

  130. 130 IT KNOW HOW| Erfolg im Internet. Gute Ideen ziehen noch immer. said at 6:11 am on September 15th, 2010:

    [...] erledigter Arbeit ging der Facebook Praktikant schlafen und als er wieder aufwachte und seine Emails checkte, konnte er seinen Augen nicht trauen. [...]

  131. 131 fer said at 8:36 am on September 15th, 2010:

    I find it very interesting that someone could create half as fast in so little time

  132. 132 Joey said at 8:37 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Sorry, it doesn’t seem to be useful to me. I still have to use youtube to find the video I want.

  133. 133 Brainless_munkey said at 8:38 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Excellent work!!

  134. 134 Chris said at 9:01 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Hi Feross, what a great implementation of an excellent idea to create an instant search.
    I was for a long time a great fan of keyboardr.com which offers instant search results, now a few years later google adapted that innovation (but only if logged in).
    Lets have a look how long it takes Google/Youtube this time :)

    I have one suggestion for Ytinstant: Why don’t you offer the play and navigation buttons?

    Cheers Chris

  135. 135 JJ said at 10:15 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Another Spanish newspaper talking about Youtube Instant. In case you want to add it to your list.

    This is called Libertad Digital

    http://www.libertaddigital.com/internet/programadores-independientes-crean-itunes-y-youtube-instant-1276401872/

    Congrats!

  136. 136 Joao BRZIL said at 10:59 am on September 15th, 2010:

    Muito legal cara, você está fazendo o maior sucesso no Brasil, veja uma reportagem sua:
    http://www.gamevicio.com.br/i/noticias/54/54137-estudante-cria-youtube-instant-e-recebe-proposta-de-emprego/index.html

  137. 137 prasanth said at 1:57 pm on September 15th, 2010:

    Congracts

  138. 138 capriccio said at 4:17 pm on September 15th, 2010:

    it’s really cool!! :)

  139. 139 Pritesh said at 6:47 pm on September 15th, 2010:

    Congrats Feross.. great job.. i wud definitely like to learn more on hacking from you ..:)

  140. 140 toubiV said at 12:40 am on September 16th, 2010:

    My colleague did it also! You can test it at http://bit.ly/ytinstant

  141. 141 Die Youtube Instant Story – FRONTAND said at 12:51 am on September 16th, 2010:

    [...] von Golem, CNN, CNET, New York Times, PC Magazine, Engadget, Tech Crunch, FOX News, Venture Beat, usw. Mittlerweile gibt es auch einen Wikipedia-Eintrag zu Youtube Instant. Der Höhepunkt ist aber [...]

  142. 142 Pedro Espinoza said at 4:14 am on September 16th, 2010:

    Hola Ferross, antes que nada se de la capacidad de los traductores online, por eso motivo no, ofendo a tu idioma con mi ingles, je je. No me queda más que felicitarte y saludarte por tu muy buen trabajo con ytinstant, me encantaría colaborar de algún modo con el crecimiento de tu creación.
    Saludos desde Paraguay.

  143. 143 Neal Gorenflo said at 8:44 am on September 16th, 2010:

    Way better than a resume! Nice hack.

  144. 144 nistuL said at 10:05 am on September 16th, 2010:

    Congrats Bro.
    keep going.
    All the Best.
    \m/

  145. 145 Instant job at Google! Story of YouTube Instant | www.nistuL.in said at 10:24 am on September 16th, 2010:

    [...] Mr.FEROSS ABOUKHADIJEH. [...]

  146. 146 Google copia Facebook e nasce Google Instant | Simone Bartali said at 3:51 pm on September 16th, 2010:

    [...] pazzo non contento di questa novità si è inventato YouTube Instant, un servizio simile però con i [...]

  147. 147 Benjamin said at 4:16 pm on September 16th, 2010:

    You should show Linode.com some love by indicating they host you….. Linode rocks by the way!

  148. 148 張旭 said at 4:44 pm on September 16th, 2010:

    this is freaking awesome!

  149. 149 adhie said at 11:28 pm on September 16th, 2010:

    My comment is, about the title of video, maybe you can add title and length of video!

    good job!

  150. 150 sreekanth reddy said at 1:12 am on September 17th, 2010:

    HI ferros ,nice thought, i have one marketing technique to make money from this,if u interested contact me.

  151. 151 YouTube Instant o com aconseguir una feina a Google « Betes i Clicks – desenredant la xarxa said at 2:58 am on September 17th, 2010:

    [...] explica el seu creador, l’increïble va venir quan després de compartir-ho amb els seus amics, l’endemà va [...]

  152. 152 How to Get Noticed for a job at Google | Me, Ma Life... said at 7:03 am on September 17th, 2010:

    [...] caught your attention? I bet it did . After reading about FEROSS ABOUKHADIJEH’s story about Youtube Instant (See nistu’s post here) I thought of sharing the following video i saw before. This is [...]

  153. 153 James said at 10:29 am on September 17th, 2010:

    Nice job Feross!

    Now all you need to do is add some Google AdSense to ytinstant.com to generate some revenue! That’s what I would do.

  154. 154 Div said at 2:46 pm on September 17th, 2010:

    Love it. Working great. Just one small thing. Can you have other controls in video player like sound, progress bar etc.

  155. 155 Rahul Ritesh said at 6:28 pm on September 17th, 2010:

    Awesome Work Man.. Hats off to you :)

  156. 156 Ornando said at 1:58 am on September 18th, 2010:

    Great…..

  157. 157 Massimiliano, Firenze (italy) said at 6:45 am on September 18th, 2010:

    Bravo ! :-)

  158. 158 Rahul Bansal said at 6:53 am on September 18th, 2010:

    Congrats Feross. Loving YouTube Instant. :-)

    I have one suggestion for you.
    Move to Nginx web-server (http://wiki.nginx.org/) as there is a limit to Apache.

  159. 159 TrimBack said at 7:03 pm on September 18th, 2010:

    Amazing what you can do with a little brains and 3 hours of free time. I love it great work and i use it all the time now.

  160. 160 Shodh Labs said at 9:51 pm on September 18th, 2010:

    Hi,

    We worked on something like Bing instant search in http://instabing.shodhlabs.com/ (inspired by your post).

    We would be happy if anybody reviews it.

    Thanks and regards.

  161. 161 Wöchentliches Gezwitscher für 2010-09-19 | said at 10:09 pm on September 18th, 2010:

    [...] http://www.feross.org/youtube-instant-media-frenzy/ #YouTube #Instant: Live Search on Youtube # tweetmeme_style = 'compact';tweetmeme_url='http://mac-and-mobile.de/?p=1568';Tweet [...]

  162. 162 Dave A. Sailer said at 11:32 pm on September 18th, 2010:

    I’ll save this site in my favs, good post.

  163. 163 Instant job at Google! Story of YouTube Instant | CeTly L!ve - College of Engineering Thalassery Live said at 11:34 pm on September 18th, 2010:

    [...] Mr.FEROSS ABOUKHADIJEH. [...]

  164. 164 Srinivas said at 2:09 am on September 19th, 2010:

    Great work dude !!

    Happy that your work got recognition..

  165. 165 Grey Olltwit said at 9:11 am on September 19th, 2010:

    Cool tool, well done.

  166. 166 Joyce said at 7:08 pm on September 19th, 2010:

    I’m not that used to my friends getting famous :) Congrats!!! You have lots of great ideas and I’m glad you’re starting to make them happen!

  167. 167 maggie said at 8:42 am on September 20th, 2010:

    completely AWESOME

  168. 168 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 12:47 am on September 21st, 2010:

    Thanks Joyce! I’m glad you liked YouTube Instant! Thanks for the nice wishes! :)

  169. 169 Mauro said at 4:20 am on September 21st, 2010:

    New version of youtube instant
    Visit:http://www.ytinstant.eu

  170. 170 Bk said at 8:03 am on September 21st, 2010:

    You are talented. Regarding the job at YouTube, I would think that you shouldn’t jump into it; its just another job. Instead, finish you school. Since you can do Google Instant in 3 hrs, it can be duplicated easily.
    Think about web in 5 years from now. Focus your research in what 5 years would be.

  171. 171 Renetto said at 7:39 pm on September 21st, 2010:

    Feross, I hope you get a chance to see the video on YouTube you star in. I hope you like it:)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol6t9OxVRq8

  172. 172 APIs Feed “Instant” Frenzy said at 12:01 pm on September 23rd, 2010:

    [...] same instantaneous flair. Using the YouTube API Aboukhadijeh created YouTube Instant and ended up getting himself a job offer from the search [...]

  173. 173 Tim said at 7:21 pm on September 23rd, 2010:

    I am from Vietnam I love you website so much. Thank you so much, It makes me so happy every day.

  174. 174 One Million Visitors in 10 Days - Feross.org said at 12:26 am on September 24th, 2010:

    [...] Press coverage in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC, and hundreds more. [...]

  175. 175 Salman said at 5:34 am on September 24th, 2010:

    Interesting idea, with instant success!

  176. 176 reg fitchett said at 6:10 am on September 24th, 2010:

    scott could u please contact me at rfitchet@hotmail.com

  177. 177 El creador de YouTube Instant se irá a trabajar a YouTube en ALT1040 (Internet) said at 7:13 am on September 24th, 2010:

    [...] tiene de tan fabuloso YTinstant que logró captar la atención del CEO de YouTube además de la de cientos de medios en el mundo? (nosotros aportamos nuestros granitos de arena). Aunque claro, la atención [...]

  178. 178 YouTube Instant fa curriculum e Google gli propone l’assunzione | setteB.IT said at 7:16 am on September 24th, 2010:

    [...] che tutti dovrebbero imitare è quello che arriva da Feross Aboukhadijeh e da Chad Hurley, il primo è un giovane studente di Stanford ed il secondo il CEO di [...]

  179. 179 El creador de YouTube Instant se irá a trabajar a YouTube @ Blog DDS.media said at 8:24 am on September 24th, 2010:

    [...] tiene de tan fabuloso YTinstant que logró captar la atención del CEO de YouTube además de la de cientos de medios en el mundo? Aunque claro, la atención en los medios no fue tanto por el sitio en sí, [...]

  180. 180 Blog Avizpado: El creador de YouTube Instant se irá a trabajar a YouTube said at 9:22 am on September 24th, 2010:

    [...] tiene de tan fabuloso YTinstant que logró captar la atención del CEO de YouTube además de la de cientos de medios en el mundo? Aunque claro, la atención en los medios no fue tanto por el sitio en sí, [...]

  181. 181 Paz (peace) said at 11:39 am on September 24th, 2010:

    Hi, I’m from Chile, and I found you’re news on a local newspaper. Congratulations my friend. I’m sure you’ll do huge things for the computer world.
    Un gran saludo desde Chile!!!
    Paz

  182. 182 offixweb said at 3:08 pm on September 24th, 2010:

    ke Feross Aboukhadijeh sea nuestro próximo Bill Gates o Mark Zuckerberg ¿mm?..totalmente predecible a este ritmo; Dios kiera siga perdiendo sus “Apuestas Jeje” para ser testigos de proyectos tan innovadores como -YouTube instantáneo-. Nuestras sinceras felicitaciones Amigo y “Las Mejores .. ” -a lo Colombiano-

  183. 183 Sean Martin said at 12:30 pm on September 25th, 2010:

    I would love to know what “size” Linode you started with and what you now need to handle the load.

  184. 184 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 10:56 pm on September 25th, 2010:

    Renetto!

    I used to watch your YouTube videos all the time! I can’t believe I “star” in one of your videos. Too cool! I’m glad that you liked YouTube Instant! :)

    I hope things are going well with Bl3nk!

    Feross

  185. 185 Naresh said at 7:27 pm on September 26th, 2010:

    Hey! Great Job! Thanks for giving us even better and wonderful YouTube.

  186. 186 El creador de YouTube Instant se irá a trabajar a YouTube | ITinerancia said at 6:50 am on September 27th, 2010:

    [...] videos a medida que escribimos que logró captar la atención del CEO de YouTube además de la de cientos de medios en el mundo? .Aunque claro, la atención en los medios no fue tanto por el sitio en sí, [...]

  187. 187 Corey said at 11:51 am on September 29th, 2010:

    Scott- please contact me @ cwert3@gmail.com

  188. 188 dselva said at 1:17 am on September 30th, 2010:

    Great Job Feross Aboukhadijeh… I Loved ytinstant.com

  189. 189 Habin NC said at 2:04 am on October 1st, 2010:

    Any Way Very Interested to hear this.
    Cngrts to Mr.Feross.
    Thanking YOu,
    Habin NC.
    9349067970

  190. 190 Athul MT said at 2:09 am on October 1st, 2010:

    Hi dear

    wonderfull job ..great

    Thanking you

    Athul MT
    +919809870868

  191. 191 YouTube Instant Is Wild | azwebdesignphoenix.com said at 9:28 pm on October 3rd, 2010:

    [...] I came across one project designed to make YouTube, a bit more instant. Aptly called YouTube Instant, this project was apparently done as a dare/bet between two [...]

  192. 192 محمد الناصري » التخطيط واختيار الوقت المناسب… said at 5:59 pm on October 5th, 2010:

    [...] القصة كما ذكرت في هذا الرابط (الرابط) [...]

  193. 193 Sosha said at 9:06 am on October 6th, 2010:

    Hello Feross!

    You are brilliant and YouTube Instant is an absolutely wizard idea!

    Some people (including you) wonder why it’s so popular. Simple really – music is the universal language and most people are music enthusiasts, though their choices may be restricted to a few genres.

    Thank you and all the very best in your future endeavors. :)

  194. 194 Shyam said at 8:06 pm on October 7th, 2010:

    Clutter free site. Please try to maintain it like this.

  195. 195 SHIJIN said at 2:36 am on October 9th, 2010:

    Wonderful n great work dear…. Keep going on…. All the best…..

  196. 196 Prakash said at 11:19 am on October 10th, 2010:

    I created a website http://www.gogootube.com where you can instantly search google and youtube at one go… Check this out

  197. 197 Quora said at 9:14 pm on October 10th, 2010:

    In 2010/11, who are the best software engineering students in the junior and senior classes at Stanford?…

    Feross Aboukhadijeh ’12 build YouTube Instant. See http://www.feross.org/youtube-instant-media-frenzy/…

  198. 198 Quora said at 9:15 pm on October 10th, 2010:

    In 2010/11, who are the best software engineering students in the junior and senior classes at Stanford?…

    The list includes: * Feross Aboukhadijeh [1] * Jaehyun Park [2] [1] http://www.feross.org/youtube-instant-media-frenzy/ [2] http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/02/10/cs-team-places-fourteenth-at-world-finals/…

  199. 199 Farooq said at 9:28 pm on October 10th, 2010:

    Congrats feross….! g8t work..!

  200. 200 Deepak said at 11:53 am on October 15th, 2010:

    Here is the code and I know it well http://ytinstant.com/instant_min.js.
    i am also after YOUTUBE APIs ;-)
    Anyways keep up the good work… :=)
    Regards,
    Mr JSON…c

  201. 201 Hacker Slide: Anatomy of a 4 Hour Miniapp said at 11:58 am on October 15th, 2010:

    [...] muscles but a good exercise in short term discipline or even a way to promote yourself – just ask Feross Aboukhadijeh about [...]

  202. 202 Story of Google Instant | Crazy Thoughts said at 6:50 pm on October 16th, 2010:

    [...] Mr.FEROSS ABOUKHADIJEH. [...]

  203. 203 ashnyc said at 7:15 pm on October 17th, 2010:

    Great site, love it have been using a lot

  204. 204 MIGUEL E. SERRANO said at 2:45 pm on October 18th, 2010:

    TE FELICITO POR ESE GRAN LOGRO.
    AHORA YOUTUBE-INSTANT ES MI SITIO PREFERIDO PARA MI MUSICA Y VINO LOS SABADOS POR LA NOCHE.

    ADELANTE Y NO TE DETENGAS

  205. 205 Michael said at 10:25 am on October 20th, 2010:

    Ive got some good party ideas from this. Halloween is gonna be a scary one! Cheers

  206. 206 Tygas said at 1:27 am on October 21st, 2010:

    Just make design normal, cause this grey background and ‘Josefin Sans Std Light’,arial,serif’ font look oldshcoll

  207. 207 Story of Google Instant « said at 3:36 am on October 28th, 2010:

    [...] Mr.FEROSS ABOUKHADIJEH. [...]

  208. 208 Nabeel said at 10:25 am on November 7th, 2010:

    Hi,
    What’s new in your website?It’s just like any other search engine just without an “enter” button!??!!?not something the world really needed,so unnecessary.I don’t know what’s the hype for?!!?

  209. 209 Nick said at 3:03 am on November 9th, 2010:

    So glad you did this, I had my own problem of forgetting a movie name and because of what you’ve done in the past it inspired me to create my own instant search.

    Have a look at http://www.imoviename.com, it searches the plot keywords rather than movie titles and actors to try help you remember a movie name! and of course done in instant search ;)

  210. 210 Biruk said at 10:28 pm on November 11th, 2010:

    I am so amazed by u’r great job.keep up the good work bro!

  211. 211 debor said at 10:49 am on November 18th, 2010:

    Tu página es muy buena, felicidades. Haz ya el nuevo buscador.

  212. 212 dueño de google said at 10:55 am on November 18th, 2010:

    Está muy bien tu creación

  213. 213 Need a job? YouTube can help you! said at 4:57 pm on December 1st, 2010:

    [...] its value via voice over. That’s what Stanford student Feross Aboukhadijeh did when he created YouTube Instant. The video instantly caught the attention of YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, who offered him a job over [...]

  214. 214 Story of Google Instant | Hari Krishnan CK said at 8:53 am on December 11th, 2010:

    [...] Mr.FEROSS ABOUKHADIJEH. [...]

  215. 215 Quora said at 8:12 pm on December 31st, 2010:

    Have you, or anyone that you know of, got a job offer via Twitter? If yes, what was the experience like?…

    In September 2010, I received a job offer over Twitter from YouTube CEO Chad Hurley after I built YouTube Instant (http://ytinstant.com), a realtime YouTube search engine. Here’s how it happened. I bet my roommate that I could take the idea of instant…

  216. 216 wolfgangpue said at 11:34 am on January 18th, 2011:

    This site was a great inspiration for my project. Thx

  217. 217 What is it like to get a job offer via Twitter? » Feross.org said at 4:59 pm on January 27th, 2011:

    [...] YouTube Instant. The last two days… [...]

  218. 218 Saju.K.R said at 12:01 pm on February 7th, 2011:

    hi..Feross…is this work in mobile phones?

  219. 219 Youtube Instant : Search Engine Developed By 19 Year Old « rohit vohra said at 6:45 am on February 19th, 2011:

    [...] to Feross Aboukhadijeh’s blog,he stated that the project started out as a bet with his roommate that he can make the website in [...]

  220. 220 4 minutes and 22 seconds » Feross.org said at 2:19 am on February 22nd, 2011:

    [...] determined to reach this goal. Update: After running pretty consistently for a couple months, YouTube Instant happened to me, and I stopped [...]

  221. 221 eTipsLibrary said at 1:09 pm on March 5th, 2011:

    Really great work. I witnessed it late but still i want to congratulate you.

  222. 222 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 11:34 pm on March 5th, 2011:

    Thanks!

  223. 223 Recruiting via Facebook Ads — Elliott C. Back said at 5:12 pm on March 15th, 2011:

    [...] the other hand, Youtube Instant generated a spontaneous job application. Perhaps the better approach is to build something awesome [...]

  224. 224 tina said at 8:32 pm on April 18th, 2011:

    I did also know about this too late. Congratulation to you Feross.
    Nice to have a smart person doing smart idea, though it seems an ordinary thing to you but not for us common people.

  225. 225 Kevin - Apuestas Deportivas said at 2:26 pm on April 25th, 2011:

    Very good post, it really is very nice to have people very interested in sharing their knowledge.

    Thanks

    Kevin

  226. 226 Email Overload » Feross.org said at 12:26 am on May 9th, 2011:

    [...] I’ve kept this policy for the last 6 months — even during the height of the YouTube Instant charade. [...]

  227. 227 My recent hacks » Feross.org said at 3:17 am on May 17th, 2011:

    [...] both realized after YouTube Instant went viral (1 million visitors in 10 days!) that it was very handy for discovering music videos, and [...]

  228. 228 None of Us Knows What We’re Doing » Feross.org said at 2:51 am on May 22nd, 2011:

    [...] could have predicted that such a simple hack would go on to get 1 million visitors in 10 days, garner worldwide media attention, and earn me a personal job offer from Chad Hurley (who was YouTube CEO at the time; now the owner [...]

  229. 229 Aswin Pradhan said at 11:05 am on May 23rd, 2011:

    I Read about your story and i was so impressed that what i was thinking i read in your success story. I truly believe you and think about giving a shot in whatever I want. Lets hope it goes on without too many regrets.

  230. 230 Seen by McClure & Scoble, Tweeted By A Rap Star – BetterYoo Week 1 | BetterYoo Blog said at 1:27 pm on June 7th, 2011:

    [...] you followed the YouTube Instant story, you’ll remember how a ‘previously unknown’ CS student, Ferros Aboukhadijeh [...]

  231. 231 Quora said at 3:28 pm on June 18th, 2011:

    What technologies did you use to build YouTube Instant?…

    I built YouTube Instant using JavaScript (with jQuery), CSS, and HTML. That’s it. It’s a purely static webpage, nothing happens server-side. At first, I was used some PHP to proxy YouTube API requests through my server, but removed that because my se…

  232. 232 shahmiBro said at 6:16 pm on June 26th, 2011:

    hye, what kind of scripting do you use to bulid the site? youtube instant? do I need to know all programming languages to build a site or just stick to the programming languages that I’ve possessed in a long time?

  233. 233 emmanuel C. said at 6:10 pm on June 30th, 2011:

    “a site that lets you search across the vast YouTube video database in real-time”
    makes me think about Piano Briefs :)

  234. 234 En vacker twitter-konversation. | Nabil. said at 2:52 am on July 17th, 2011:

    [...] I sin blogg har han bland annat skrivit om hur många tidningar som intervjuat honom, och hur han inte ens förstått sig på av vissa språken. Artiklar publicerades nämligen om honom på bland annat japanska och italienska. Detta inlägg publicerades i kategorin twitter. ← Nabil – ambassadörsbloggare. Och författare. Satellitsajt byggd. → [...]

  235. 235 Markus Jalmerot said at 3:19 pm on July 27th, 2011:

    Great idea with an instant version of YouTube. I cannot believe how you could built it so fast?

  236. 236 Shiva Krishna said at 9:13 pm on July 27th, 2011:

    Hi feross,you done good job and congrats,all the best for your all the works in feature.

    Ur loving friend
    shiva

  237. 237 2011 .Net Magazine Awards » Feross.org said at 10:34 am on August 2nd, 2011:

    [...] humbled by the way YouTube Instant took off just a few hours after I built it. I’m thankful to the hundreds of thousands of good people [...]

  238. 238 .net Awards 2011: 10 brilliant newcomers - LOGO WORLD 2011 – LOGO WORLD 2011 said at 3:46 am on August 23rd, 2011:

    [...] Later that same summer, we built a website called YouTube Instant, that guesses what you’re acid for on YouTube and now plays a initial video result. The site went viral: one million visitors in a initial 10 days. YouTube’s CEO, Chad Hurley, tweeted me a pursuit offer during YouTube usually 14 hours after we launched a website! we wrote a blog post about it here: http://www.feross.org/youtube-instant-media-frenzy/. [...]

  239. 239 Quora said at 1:58 pm on September 3rd, 2011:

    How did Feross Aboukhadijeh learn to program?…

    TL;DR: I learned how to program by building lots of websites. And now, the full story: I’ve been asked this question a lot lately, especially after I built YouTube Instant. I learned how to program by working on lots of different website projects star…

  240. 240 In the news again… » Feross.org said at 10:09 pm on September 12th, 2011:

    [...] one year after I built YouTube Instant, my little 3 hour project is still getting talked about in the national [...]

  241. 241 How I Learned to Program Computers » Feross.org said at 10:09 am on September 13th, 2011:

    [...] Then, in the summer of 2010, while interning at Facebook, I built YouTube Instant to settle a bet with a friend. It’s a video site that lets you search YouTube in real-time. The site went on to get 1 million visitors within 10 days of launch, and the YouTube CEO also tweeted me a job offer. Read about the media frenzy here. [...]

  242. 242 Sometimes I hate the media » Feross.org said at 3:47 pm on September 13th, 2011:

    [...] media has been good to me for the most part. But these stories are just [...]

  243. 243 我是如何学习计算机编程的 | MaxZU - 专业IT博客 said at 5:16 pm on October 16th, 2011:

    [...] 之后，在2010年夏天，当我在Facebook实习时，因为跟一个朋友打赌，我开发了YouTube Instant，它是一个用来实时搜索YouTube视频的网站。这个网站在建成之后的10天里获得了1百万用户的访问量，YouTube的CEO甚至给我发消息说提供一个职位给我，你可以从这里看到这些媒体的躁动。 [...]

  244. 244 Fwd: How I Learned to Program Computers said at 8:46 pm on October 16th, 2011:

    [...] Then, in the summer of 2010, while interning at Facebook, I built YouTube Instantto settle a bet with a friend. It’s a video site that lets you search YouTube in real-time. The site went on to get 1 million visitors within 10 days of launch, and the YouTube CEO also tweeted me a job offer. Read about the media frenzy here. [...]

  245. 245 我如何学习编程的故事 | 岭南六少 - 一朵在LAMP架构下挣扎的云 said at 1:18 am on October 17th, 2011:

    [...] 之后，在2010年夏天，当我在Facebook实习时，因为跟一个朋友打赌，我开发了YouTube Instant，它是一个用来实时搜索YouTube视频的网站。这个网站在建成之后的10天里获得了1百万用户的访问量，YouTube的CEO甚至给我发消息说提供一个职位给我，你可以从这里看到这些媒体的躁动。 [...]

  246. 246 通过做项目来学习计算机编程 | 当时 said at 4:40 pm on October 17th, 2011:

    [...] 之后，在2010年夏天，当我在Facebook实习时，因为跟一个朋友打赌，我开发了YouTube Instant，它是一个用来实时搜索YouTube视频的网站。这个网站在建成之后的10天里获得了1百万用户的访问量，YouTube的CEO甚至给我发消息说提供一个职位给我，你可以从这里看到这些媒体的躁动。 [...]

  247. 247 Guest post: Using social media to land your dream job « clare siobhan said at 3:58 am on October 18th, 2011:

    [...] numbers of people are turning to YouTube to launch their careers. Justin Bieber, Graeme Anthony and Feross Aboukhadijeh are fantastic examples. Each created very different videos that had three things in common; [...]

  248. 248 我是如何学习计算机编程的 | 博客 - 伯乐在线 said at 2:26 am on October 29th, 2011:

    [...] 之后，在2010年夏天，当我在Facebook实习时，因为跟一个朋友打赌，我开发了YouTube Instant，它是一个用来实时搜索YouTube视频的网站。这个网站在建成之后的10天里获得了1百万用户的访问量，YouTube的CEO甚至给我发消息说提供一个职位给我，你可以从这里看到这些媒体的躁动。 [...]

  249. 249 Linode VPS Hosting Review » Feross.org said at 10:12 pm on November 14th, 2011:

    [...] plan — 768MB ram, 30GB storage, and 300GB transfer. When one of my sites goes viral, like YouTube Instant did or EmuSpin did, I just migrate to a bigger [...]

  250. 250 Other Instant Search On The Web You Might Wanna Try! said at 9:01 am on February 9th, 2012:

    [...] you can view Youtube videos as soon as you type the keywords.Youtube Instant is the creation of Feross Aboukhadijeh, a computer science student at Stanford University, who bet with his roommate (after the launch of [...]

  251. 251 Other Instant Search On The Web You Might Wanna Try! said at 11:58 pm on February 11th, 2012:

    [...] Instant is the creation of Feross Aboukhadijeh, a computer science student at Stanford University, who bet with his roommate (after the launch of [...]

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