LiveKit

The open source platform for real-time communication

4.9•26 reviews•

520 followers

The open source platform for real-time communication

4.9•26 reviews•

520 followers

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Team collaboration software

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Video conferencing

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Video and Voice calling

LiveKit is free, open source infrastructure for building and scaling real-time audio and video experiences in your applications. Use our APIs to easily build audio-only spaces, live classrooms, in-game video chat, collaborative screen sharing, and more.

This is the 2nd launch from LiveKit. View more

LiveKit Cloud

Build massive-scale, real-time video and audio experiences

Conferencing, livestreaming, metaverse, robotics, collaboration or telephony apps just became easier to build with LiveKit Cloud. Supports up to 100,000 simultaneous participants per session and includes detailed, real-time analytics and telemetry.

Free

Launch tags:

API•Open Source•Developer Tools

Launch Team

Russ d'Sa

LiveKit

Maker

Hey Product Hunt 👋 When the pandemic started, I worked on a side project building “Clubhouse for companies”. Like Clubhouse, I built it using Agora for the audio. Pinterest wanted to buy 500 seats, but told me for security reasons, I had to use an alternative to Agora. I started to look at open source options, and quickly realized there wasn’t a modern stack with good mobile support. I mentioned this to my longtime friend, David, and he offered to help me build an open source WebRTC stack in Go, which I could use in my side project. We didn’t realize how hard or fun it would be, and I eventually forgot all about that Pinterest deal. A little over a year ago, we launched LiveKit, a modern, open source, end-to-end WebRTC stack. It made it easy to build real-time video and audio features into browser, desktop or mobile apps. Shortly after our launch, we became the fastest growing WebRTC repo on GitHub and 100s of projects were using LiveKit. While many developers were running LiveKit in production, others found it challenging to operate their own media infrastructure or just wanted to focus on their products. We built LiveKit Cloud to make building, deploying and scaling real-time video and audio features, simple. Cloud is a WebRTC platform operated by the LiveKit team. It uses the same LiveKit open source SFU, APIs and SDKs. You can even switch between Cloud and your self-hosted stack without changing any code. What’s different about Cloud is a custom orchestration layer, allowing it to support massive scale experiences. For example, with Cloud, you could build a 5v5 version of Twitch, with all 10 players’ games streaming simultaneously to a 100,000 person virtual arena. With only 100ms of latency between anyone. What’s more is, you can build it about as easily as an app for 1:1 meetings. Cloud does the hard work for you! LiveKit Cloud has a generous monthly free tier and then a pay-as-you-go model afterwards. An incredibly detailed analytics and telemetry system is also free for all projects. David and I are excited for you to give it a whirl and look forward to your questions and feedback. Russ

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3yr ago

Fares

@dsa Congrats on the launch 🚀

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3yr ago

Paul Rusyn

LogoliveryAI

@dsa Congrats on the launch and good luck 🍀 If you need some help with the logo and brand identity, feel free to contact me!

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3yr ago

Russ d'Sa

LiveKit

Maker

@fares_aktouf @kirkdonohoe @pavell2l thank you all so much for the kind words and support! 🙏 Will keep you in mind, Pavel! Looking forward to you trying it at some point, Kirk!

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3yr ago

Savi Singh

@dsa Congrats on the launch!!

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3yr ago

Russ d'Sa

LiveKit

Maker

@savi thanks so much Savi!

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3yr ago

Philip D. Müller

We're using LiveKit since months for https://unping.com - its awesome so far. And the support is outstanding. Thanks so much guys!

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3yr ago

David Zhao

LiveKit

Maker

@pmueller Thank you Philip! It's so great seeing what you guys have built with unping.

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3yr ago

Kumail Jaffer

Gather Town

We've been trialing LiveKit at Gather for a few weeks now, and are hoping to ramp up more soon. Both the team and the product are extremely impressive. Clearly has been built with a lot of love by people who really care about what they're doing. It's the ~only real-time video API that has the flexibility we want, and they've put an incredible amount of effort into making it work to the degree of reliability you need in production. Extremely cost-effective too -- pricing makes much more sense than the other API providers. Congrats on the launch Russ :)

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3yr ago

Russ d'Sa

LiveKit

Maker

@kumail_jaffer wow, thanks Kumail! <3 This means so much coming from someone that's been running real-time video at scale. The team at LiveKit has really enjoyed working with you and the crew at Gather. Looking forward to a long and successful partnership!

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3yr ago

David Zhao

LiveKit

Maker

@kumail_jaffer thanks for the vote of confidence Kumail! It's be awesome working with your team thus far. Excited to continue to collaborate!

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3yr ago