So you want to build a real-time start up?
Blog post from Mux
The text discusses various options available for building a real-time video application, highlighting the complexity involved in developing such an infrastructure from scratch. It mentions the possibility of using open-source projects like Livekit, Jitsi, or Mediasoup to reduce development time but emphasizes that deploying and scaling these solutions can still be challenging. The text then introduces real-time video APIs provided by companies like Twilio and Daily.co as a quicker and more cost-effective way to build such applications without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. It concludes with an example of how using an API helped in building a successful prototype that secured significant funding for the project.
| Trend | Post Mentions | Total Month Mentions | Posts | Companies | MoM |
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| Real-time | 9 | 1,262 | 387 | 113 | +28% |
| Kubernetes | 1 | 935 | 148 | 51 | -4% |
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