---
title: "The build story"
slug: the-build-story
url: https://ashwat.me/work/ytmetrix/the-build-story
author: "Ashwat"
description: "The account of building YTMetrix, including the parts I got wrong."
category: "YTMetrix"
---

# The build story


The most useful document for this chapter is the build story I published: decisions, missteps, and why I open-sourced the project.

That essay is the project. This page exists so it can sit inside the work archive as a first-class piece, not only as a journal entry.

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Chapter: [YTMetrix](https://ashwat.me/work/ytmetrix)
Canonical: https://ashwat.me/work/ytmetrix/the-build-story
JSON-LD: https://ashwat.me/work/ytmetrix/the-build-story.jsonld