by selvan on 8/30/24, 3:28 AM with 44 comments
by zcesur on 8/30/24, 1:39 PM
I've been building this since early this year. Over the past few months, developers like Daniel Roe (Nuxt.com maintainer), Chris Griffing, Andras Bacsai (Coolify.io maintainer) have been livestreaming with Algora their coding sessions, office hours, product launches, podcasts, and more.
Algora TV supports free multistreaming to Twitch, X, YouTube, custom RTMPs [1] and aggregates live comments from these platforms.
I chose to build Algora in Elixir because of a few reasons: 1) Productivity gains from using Phoenix LiveView are unparalleled as a solo developer 2) OTP is super helpful for handling complex streaming pipelines. Things like multistreaming, mirroring chat messages, capturing thumbnails etc. can fail at any time, and OTP makes it easier to build fault-tolerant processes 3) BEAM clustering allows distributing the system across multiple nodes with ease, which helps reduce latency between streamers and viewers.
As the sole maintainer of the project, I'd love to get your help with improving Algora! If you're up for contributing, I've put up a bunch of bounties [2] to prioritize some issues.
In any case, I'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback or questions!
by prmoustache on 8/30/24, 8:35 AM
Also it is not clear from the readme if Tigris is a requirement or if any S3 API compatible storage can be used. It doesn't seem to be the case according to the environment variables given so I find it strange that Tigris is even mentionned.
by pzmarzly on 8/30/24, 7:55 AM
> While other cloud providers tax you for each GB of data transferred, we don't. At Tigris, we don't charge for regional data transfer, region-to-region data transfer, or data transfer out to the internet (egress) in the majority of use cases. However, if your bandwidth requirements are extraordinary, please reach out to us at sales@tigrisdata.com to discuss your requirements.
I wonder if a successful live video platform would count as extraordinary usage, I would assume so.
by solarkraft on 8/30/24, 3:57 PM
Not only is it confusing, it also gets you into hot water legally.
by drpossum on 8/30/24, 8:02 AM
by pzmarzly on 8/30/24, 7:59 AM
by dindresto on 8/30/24, 10:50 AM
by jonhohle on 8/30/24, 1:19 PM
Ultimately where are people going to watch and discover? Glad to see interest in dev streaming.
by Shock9889 on 9/1/24, 6:31 AM
by ilrwbwrkhv on 8/30/24, 2:48 PM
There used to be a livecoding.tv back in the day which slowly died out so I would love to have something like this but I don't fully get why to use it.
by lakomen on 9/2/24, 7:57 PM
Is any 3rd party involved?
Is it something like restream?
Is it development content only? No games or IRL
by fedeb95 on 8/30/24, 10:25 AM
by construct0 on 8/30/24, 11:27 AM