Chris Messina

API.stream - API to build cloud-native live streaming production tools

API.stream is a cloud-native live streaming production pipeline for developers to build custom live video workflows or a live streaming studio in days. We power your cloud video architecture so you can focus on your customers, product, and growth.

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Ryan Forquer
Hey everyone! And thank you @chrismessina for hunting us! We are the team behind Lightstream Studio. We invented the browser-based live streaming studio back in 2014, powered by our cloud-native live video engine. For years we've honed our technology on high frame rate and high definition gaming streams. Our technology has composited media and web-driven motion graphics on tens of millions of hours of live content. We're excited to package this architecture into a developer-friendly tool kit. With the launch of API.stream, we are offering that global cloud-native live streaming production pipeline and architecture as an API for any product and engineering team to build custom live video workflows, features, or an entire broadcast studio. API.stream consists of: ⚡️ Live API Manage all your sources, compositions, encodes, and destinations. Supports WebRTC, RTMP, SRT, and more. Ingest, route, composite, and multi-stream any and all live sources. 📐 Layout API Compose and control how the broadcast should look and animate. Store unlimited projects containing your layouts and automated animations for your live sources, images, video clips, text, data sources, and web-driven overlay URLs. 💼 Studio Kit Build a simple streaming interface or a full-blown live streaming studio environment for your creators right into your platform or product. Our drop-in canvas, animation library, UI components, code examples, guides, WebRTC libraries for cameras, mics, and screen sharing make it easy to customize to your needs. Our low-level API and unopinionated SDKs are built by engineers that have intimately experienced the challenges of a global, scalable, and robust live video architecture. Leave that to us and focus on your growth, product, and customers’ needs. We really look forward to partnering and answering your questions! Cheers, Team API.stream
Stuart Pino
@chrismessina @ryanforquer Thank you, @chrismessina ! Happy to answer any questions :)
Peter Sankauskas
The team at Lightstream really knows how to kick butt. We've been using their compositor and distribution for years (since before the rebranding) and I can tell you this thing is SOLID!
Stuart Pino
@pasankauskas Thanks Peter!
Aelita Сhervonnaya
well, that looks promising. congratulations!
Ryan Forquer
@ael_chervonaya Thanks Aelita! Happy to answer any questions
Mariah Martinez
I can't wait to see how people use such an amazing tool kit! Congratulations on the launch!
Sam Hulick
Huge congrats to you & the whole team!!
Stuart Pino
@ffxsam Thanks Sam!
Maria Alexandrova
A very cool product! Congratulations on the launch and good luck in the future.✨
Ryan Forquer
@maria_alexandrova1 Thanks Maria! Please reach out if we can help with anything you're working on.
Eli Schleifer
Where was this product 5 years ago? Production grade video API is super cool
Stuart Pino
@elischleifer We had it for Lightstream Studio - not we are sharing it with everyone :)
Nico Aguilar
Awesome product - great work team!
Stuart Pino
@nicaguilar Thanks Nico!
Sasha Briu
Launching soon!
looks really great! congrats
Stuart Pino
@sofipolonska Thank you!
Ron Fybish
Great product keep it up 🚀🔥
Stuart Pino
@ron_fybish1 Thanks!
coort
That appears to be promising. congratulations! super mario bros
Zac Lovoy
Are there any plans to integrate any of the endpoints / SDKs into Lightstream Studio itself? This stuff would really help my flows in Lightstream and I would hate to have to start from scratch just to take advantage of it all when I already have flows and scenes made in Lightstream (really just want endpoints to turn the stream on and off).
Stuart Pino
@zwlovoy our current and future Lightstream products are built on this API and architecture. But if you are looking for programmatic access to the architecture, then this is the product for you! I'll shoot you an email :)
Zac Lovoy
@stugrubbs Sure; that would be great!