Steve Weed

Steve Weed

Founder of Circuit/Greenhouse Labs
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I'm Steve, founder of Circuit. Spent twenty years in video production, live streaming, and broadcast before deciding the platforms I'd been building content for were broken in ways nobody was fixing. My goal is simple: build infrastructure that doesn't extract from the people using it. Creators on Circuit keep 100% of what they charge. The platform fee is paid by the viewer on top, enforced by the contract. Ambitions: get Circuit to where independent musicians, podcasters, fight promoters, and event producers can run their whole business on it without losing 30% to a platform that doesn't even handle the video. Long term, prove that bootstrapped builders can ship infrastructure that competes with VC-backed incumbents on quality.

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Circuitp/circuit-4Steve Weed•

24h ago

Building a live streaming platform solo: what I underestimated

I've been building Circuit (gocircuit.tv), a live streaming and creator monetization platform, as a solo developer for the past couple of years. Coming from a 20-year background in broadcast production (multi-cam live events, ESPN+, that whole world), I figured I knew what I was getting into on the streaming side.

Things I underestimated:

Streaming infrastructure is a full-time job by itself. Running Ant Media Server, tuning WebRTC vs HLS tradeoffs, managing bandwidth, handling failover - none of this is glamorous and all of it can break a launch.

The "platform" isn't the streaming. It's the dashboard, the analytics, the payout flow, the support tooling. The video is maybe 20% of the actual product surface.

Steve Weed•

8h ago

Circuit - Stream. Monetize. Keep what you earn.

Live streaming and creator monetization on Base. Creators set their price and keep 100% of it. The platform fee is paid by the viewer on top, enforced by smart contracts. Not a rev-share. Pay-per-view, USDC tipping, ticketed events with NFT tickets minted atomically with payment, token gating, interactive widgets, engagement rewards, all built using professional grade streaming infrastructure.
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