Show HN: PBJ Live – Add live streaming to any app or website in ~6 LOC

Once the SDK is installed, PBJ Live allows you to create, manage and schedule live broadcasts, categorize past streams or recorded content (coming soon), issue permissions to streamers and even simulcast (soon) to other platforms all through your pbj.live account. To avoid hardware and RTMP headaches, we've paired the platform with a live stream app for a convenient way to broadcast.

About us: We're two of the three founders behind PBJ Studio, a product studio formed by a close group who have worked together for 6+ years. Outside of client work, we build our own products, the first of which is PBJ Live.

PBJ Live is the result of our painfully repetitive experience building a half dozen custom live stream products for clients. We found there were quite a few common features, outside of the actual stream provider (thanks, Mux!), we needed to build to support streaming. Once COVID hit, we had an increase in requests for custom live stream solutions. Initially, we built the platform and paired it with iOS, Web and Android apps which we'd customize. Today, we're releasing our Live SDK so anyone can easily add live streaming to their own apps and take advantage of the Live platform.

While you can use any RTMP client (obs, etc) we found our customers were constantly messing with settings, struggling with hardware requirements or internet connectivity, and mixing up stream keys. Many attempting to stream are easily overwhelmed by this, so we built an RTMP Broadcast App (iOS) which allows a streamer to log into their provisioned account and stream to whichever destination(s) they've been granted access, all from their phone.

We have some influencers, brands and fitness chains actively using our white label Web, iOS and Android clients, but exposing the functionality via an SDK made a lot of sense.

*Note - the SDK is early, please be gentle*

While we work on exposing additional platform features to the SDK (VoD, simulcasting, live shopping), we would love your feedback. HN is a frequent destination for us, we're excited to share our progress. Feel free to drop us a line by emailing hello@pbj.live.

Landing page: https://www.pbj.live

Streaming App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pbj-live-video-streaming/id153...

Use code "HN2021" to waive the first month's SAAS fee.

For reference: Live encoding of input stream ($0.07/min), video stream delivery ($0.0013/min) and video storage ($0.003/min) apply. Billed at the end of each payment cycle.