Video is how a lot of businesses now talk to their customers. A gym sells classes, a university publishes lectures, a creator community wants its own home instead of renting space on someone else's platform. They all need the same pieces: a catalog, a player that remembers where you stopped, uploads, moderation, payments and some protection for paid content.

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Reel is those pieces, the app and its server in one Java project. Like last week's Skirmish, Parley and Savor , it's a template you generate and brand, not a demo you admire.

The catalog.

Audio and subtitle tracks.

A course and its lessons.

The moderation queue.

One template, three businesses

Reel's behavior is driven by presets you switch at run time, with no rebuild:

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