Spool
Get it watched · week 1
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of $4,000 a month
$3,000 to build with
Games
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Answering
Playback Service
Answers the app: what is on, and where do I start.
$45/mo · 400 rps
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Burst Playback
Answers the app too, but grows and shrinks by itself. Charged per request.
scales itself · paid per request
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Encoder
Turns one uploaded film into every size a screen might want.
$180/mo · 60 rps
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In front
Manifest Cache
Keeps the answer to "what should this screen play" for a while.
$75/mo · 40,000 rps
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Edge Network
Keeps copies of the popular films near the people watching them.
$240/mo
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Traffic Director
Spreads requests across whatever playback services are running.
$55/mo · 60,000 rps
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Keeping
Upload Queue
Where films wait their turn. Somewhere to put work, not somewhere to do it.
$35/mo · 20,000 rps
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Catalogue Store
Every title, every episode, who is in it. Small, and read constantly.
$110/mo · 1,400 rps
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Media Store
Holds the films themselves. Cheap to keep, expensive to send.
paid for what leaves it
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Progress Store
Where each viewer got to, in each thing. Tiny, and written constantly.
$340/mo · 12,000 rps
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Licence Service
Hands out the key that unlocks a film, one screen at a time.
$95/mo · 12,000 rps
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Rights Register
Counts what was watched, and what may still be shown.
$150/mo · 6,000 rps
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Recommendation Store
What each person is likely to want next. Read hard, written rarely.
$120/mo · 9,000 rps
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Before the doors open
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Something to answer the screen
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Somewhere to keep what is on
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Somewhere to keep the films
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All of it joined up to the viewer
What Spool does
Browse
live
Play
live
↑ The films people have heard of
at 60,000
Resume
at 25,000
Publish
at 40,000
Picks
at 150,000
Captions
at 250,000
Downloads
at 500,000
Profiles
at 800,000
Live
at 1,400,000
What you have picked up
0 of 21 words
open
Where the money goes
A month
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Assembling
Something to answer the screen
Put something together that can answer a screen and hold some films.
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