How I Built a Chinese Short Drama Streaming Platform with Next.js 16 + Turso + Vercel

Chinese vertical short dramas are a 696M-user market, but most platforms are App-only. I built xindongduanju.com - a web-first platform. Stack: Next.js 16 + TypeScript + Tailwind v4 + Turso + Vercel Key decisions: Parallel DB queries with Promise.all 4 sitemaps covering 160+ URLs with CDN cache Dynamic HLS.js loading only for .m3u8 files Results: 211 pages, 4 languages, 125 SEO topic pages, $0/month infra. Try it free | Source on GitHub
Chinese vertical short dramas are a 696M-user market, but most platforms are App-only. I built xindongduanju.com - a web-first platform.
Stack: Next.js 16 + TypeScript + Tailwind v4 + Turso + Vercel
Key decisions:
- Parallel DB queries with Promise.all
- 4 sitemaps covering 160+ URLs with CDN cache
- Dynamic HLS.js loading only for .m3u8 files
Results: 211 pages, 4 languages, 125 SEO topic pages, $0/month infra.
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