I've been thinking about getting my feet wet with freelancing lately. Like you, I have 2 years Python/Django experience and am pretty good with front-end stuff. If you want to discuss partnering up, shoot me a message. (email is on user page)
One of the first things I noticed was the video sizing. The default size seemed too small but the larger size was not view able without scrolling down past so all of the top nav controls where out of the way. Making video like a click to resize type thing would be pretty cool.
(just resizing the browser content also seems to be a suitable solution too however)
I am currently attending Udacity CS101 also and am picking up a raspberry pie! Let me know if you want to collaborate on something like this for fun or maybe for a project for the class
I'm 20 in US, east coast. obviously there are random jobs like janitor, garbage man, etc. that I could probably land and make maybe $5k-$10k more at. Point is this is a foot in the door towards software development. Compared to my peers whom are waiting tables and working retail, this is a pretty good gig.
This is awesome! If you start getting a lot of traffic and want to monetize, I suggest making sure your ads are completely unobtrusive and keep them with the minimal design of the site. Ugly annoying ads are the downfall of most other paste sites.