[HN Gopher] Show HN: PBJ Live - Add live streaming to any app or...
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Show HN: PBJ Live - Add live streaming to any app or website in ~6
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Author : Casc
Score : 29 points
Date : 2021-03-17 18:01 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (pbj.live)
(TXT) w3m dump (pbj.live)
| Casc wrote:
| Hi HN! Joe and Paul here to share PBJ Live. We're releasing an
| SDK which adds end-to-end live streaming capabilities to any app
| or website in minutes.
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| Once the SDK is installed, PBJ Live allows you to create, manage
| and schedule live broadcasts, categorize past streams or recorded
| content (coming soon), issue permissions to streamers and even
| simulcast (soon) to other platforms all through your pbj.live
| account. To avoid hardware and RTMP headaches, we've paired the
| platform with a live stream app for a convenient way to
| broadcast.
|
| About us: We're two of the three founders behind PBJ Studio, a
| product studio formed by a close group who have worked together
| for 6+ years. Outside of client work, we build our own products,
| the first of which is PBJ Live.
|
| PBJ Live is the result of our painfully repetitive experience
| building a half dozen custom live stream products for clients. We
| found there were quite a few common features, outside of the
| actual stream provider (thanks, Mux!), we needed to build to
| support streaming. Once COVID hit, we had an increase in requests
| for custom live stream solutions. Initially, we built the
| platform and paired it with iOS, Web and Android apps which we'd
| customize. Today, we're releasing our Live SDK so anyone can
| easily add live streaming to their own apps and take advantage of
| the Live platform.
|
| While you can use any RTMP client (obs, etc) we found our
| customers were constantly messing with settings, struggling with
| hardware requirements or internet connectivity, and mixing up
| stream keys. Many attempting to stream are easily overwhelmed by
| this, so we built an RTMP Broadcast App (iOS) which allows a
| streamer to log into their provisioned account and stream to
| whichever destination(s) they've been granted access, all from
| their phone.
|
| We have some influencers, brands and fitness chains actively
| using our white label Web, iOS and Android clients, but exposing
| the functionality via an SDK made a lot of sense.
|
| *Note - the SDK is early, please be gentle*
|
| While we work on exposing additional platform features to the SDK
| (VoD, simulcasting, live shopping), we would love your feedback.
| HN is a frequent destination for us, we're excited to share our
| progress. Feel free to drop us a line by emailing hello@pbj.live.
|
| Landing page: https://www.pbj.live
|
| Streaming App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pbj-live-video-
| streaming/id153...
|
| Use code "HN2021" to waive the first month's SAAS fee.
| sjcoles wrote:
| Your site does not work in Firefox.
| ALittleLight wrote:
| Does this mean I could livestream to an arbitrary number of
| viewers for 99 dollars a month? How does bandwidth factor into
| this?
| Casc wrote:
| Great question, we don't have any user caps or limitations as
| we pass through bandwidth costs. The bandwidth costs are pay as
| you go.
|
| For reference: Live encoding of input stream ($0.07/min), video
| stream delivery ($0.0013/min) and video storage ($0.003/min)
| apply. Billed at the end of each payment cycle.
| jakearmitage wrote:
| Pixelon vibes.
| clint wrote:
| Doesn't seem to work in my browser (Firefox)
| drewbailey wrote:
| The landing page seems to provide absolutely zero information
| other than giving off the impression that something may be taking
| an extremely long time to load.
|
| Edit: Seems to just be completely broken in Firefox...
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