Giving Everything a Home: MinIO and the Setup Weeks
Week two was about giving everything a place to live.
MinIO for the media pipeline
The week's headline: I got MinIO running on the homelab — an S3-compatible object store at `192.168.178.112`. The immediate reason was a video project called clipsexamen, a citizenship-test question factory that needs a reliable home for assets: images, audio, and rendered clips that the pipeline churns through by the hundreds.
S3 on the local network turned out to be exactly the right shape. Files that used to sit in ad-hoc folders now have a real bucket, versioning, and an API that the whole stack can talk to. It's the kind of boring infrastructure that makes later weeks possible — you can't scale a video pipeline on a pile of loose directories.
A dashboard, a profile, and a plan
Beyond the storage, the week was lighter on code and heavier on setup: I worked through the SeedBlink investment dashboard with Hermes, and we started standing up the social presence the whole project will eventually need, including an Instagram account.
None of this is heroic. It's the paperwork of building something bigger — accounts, credentials, dashboards, and a home for the files. But it's the kind of work that, if you skip it, comes back to bite you three projects from now.
What the week taught us
The lesson from week two: infrastructure is the product's shadow. Every project we've picked up since has been faster because the storage and the accounts already existed. Getting the plumbing right first isn't glamorous, but it's the difference between a hobby and something that ships.
Links & references: - MinIO — S3-compatible object storage - SeedBlink — equity crowdfunding - clipsexamen