Iconik?

NOT REALLYA prototype of the interface is possible, but the durable product depends on difficult systems beyond the UI. Build a safer adjacent workflow instead.

BUILD FIRST

A non-sensitive or read-only version of the core experience
A manual review step wherever correctness or trust matters
A narrow companion tool that removes a real piece of work

LEAVE FOR LATER

Regulated decisions, payments, or irreversible actions
Claims of correctness, compliance, or uptime that the MVP cannot support
Sensitive integrations until security, support, and auditability are ready

RESEARCH NOTES

What this tool actually does.

Checked 2026-09-06

Iconik is a cloud-native media asset management (MAM) platform from Backlight. It manages, searches, and collaborates on video, audio, images, PDFs, and production files (including Premiere Pro projects and After Effects templates). Assets can be stored natively or in connected on-premise/cloud storage (BYO storage). AI metatagging auto-identifies faces, logos, and keywords; transcription via Rev AI supports ~28-30 languages with speaker identification, editable transcripts, click-to-jump timeline navigation, and export to text/WebVTT/SRT. Global search includes spoken words across the library. Review tools include frame-accurate commenting, drawing/markup, multi-channel audio, side-by-side playback, iOS mobile review, DRM, visual/forensic watermarking, asset status tracking (In Review/Approved/Needs Changes), role-based approval permissions, audit trails, version history. Sharing uses s

SOURCES

RESEARCHED BUILD PROMPT

Give this to your coding agent.

Build an 'Iconik'-style media asset management web app: a self-hosted library where users upload or connect existing storage (S3-compatible buckets or local folders via agent) containing video/audio/images/PDFs. On ingest, generate low-res proxy files via FFmpeg, extract thumbnails/waveforms, run AI tagging (CLIP or Google Vision for faces/logos/keywords) and speech-to-text (Whisper or Rev API) with speaker labels. Store transcripts as timed metadata; provide global full-text search across transcripts, filenames, tags, and custom metadata fields. Playback uses HLS/DASH proxies with frame-accurate time-based comments (drawing/markup overlays), side-by-side proxy/original comparison, and multi-channel audio selection. Implement approval workflow: asset statuses (In Review/Approved/Needs Changes), role-based permissions, comment resolution states, version history, and audit log. Sharing: expiring/password-protected links with download controls and collection-based shares. Publishing: templates that transcode/crop/rename for destinations (YouTube, social APIs) via background job queue. UI: dark, dense media-grid layout with detail drawer; do not copy Iconik's exact branding, visual design, or UI. Use React + Node/Postgres/Redis, object storage for originals/proxies. Out of scope: mobile apps, DRM/forensic watermarking, multi-site sync, AI auto-cropping during publish. Deliver a README with setup steps, env vars for storage/AI keys, proxy generation limits, and known limitations (transcription language coverage, large-library search indexing).

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