Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web

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Post by devinrader » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 1:55 PM UTC

Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web
twilio.com

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Post by cdbattags » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC

Ooooo, Jitsi has some competition?

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Post by rahimnathwani » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 5:37 PM UTC

cdbattags wrote: post #2

Ooooo, Jitsi has some competition?

Except with Jitsi you can self-host the entire back-end. These apps seem to depend on Twilio's infrastructure, as the READMEs mention needing a backend to generate Twilio tokens.

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Post by uplyftcapital » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

cdbattags wrote: post #2

Ooooo, Jitsi has some competition?

I wasn't aware of Jitsi - I really like Twilio but Jitsi's ability to self host elevates it to another level.

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Post by aaronlifshin » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 5:48 PM UTC

If this is backed by Twilio cloud webRTC API, I believe that does not support more that 50 people at a time watching the video

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Post by Uhhrrr » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

RTC-based: https://github.com/twilio-labs/plugin-rtc

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Post by jszymborski » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

uplyftcapital wrote: post #4

cdbattags wrote: post #2

Ooooo, Jitsi has some competition?

I wasn't aware of Jitsi - I really like Twilio but Jitsi's ability to self host elevates it to another level.

Also BigBlueButton, which is geared towards education, but also does video conferencing well.

https://bigbluebutton.org/

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Post by nanna » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

Shoot me for splitting hairs, but I think Twilio mean they build open source video apps, not that they "built" them.

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Post by throwaway55554 » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 6:00 PM UTC

nanna wrote: post #8

Shoot me for splitting hairs, but I think Twilio mean they build open source video apps, not that they "built" them.

Depends on if they're done or not.

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Post by libria » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 6:05 PM UTC

nanna wrote: post #8

Shoot me for splitting hairs, but I think Twilio mean they build open source video apps, not that they "built" them.

> We built open source video apps so you don't have to

^^^ sounds like they did a one-off.

> We build open source video apps so you don't have to

^^^ sounds like they're now in the business of doing this for steady revenue, which I don't think is true.