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Re: Show HN: A free educational live stream platform for kids

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Post by bvergara87 »

rexreed wrote: post #7
MichaelAO wrote: post #2

I work at a school with a campus in Texas and due to COVID-19, we created an interactive live streaming platform to connect kids with the world's best teachers in a fun and safe way. All of our live streams are free and open to the public. We were previously using a combination of Streamyard + Twitch, but had to make our own for various reasons. I'll see if our CTO will give a debrief of the tech stack on this thread…

Yes - very interested in what you're using for the tech stack. Why didn't Streamyard + Twitch work? What are your operating costs (if I can ask)? For the website, is this a custom site or based on something like Wordpress? Would love to know details!

Custom site, built on Vue, Quasar and Firebase. Streamyard + Twitch did work but lacked a lot of functionality we wanted. We built out a lot of realtime functionality like polls. We used Streamyard worked for a little bit but because we wanted to give our streamers only one view to mess with we went with Agora's API.

Re: Show HN: A free educational live stream platform for kids

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Post by bvergara87 »

frequentnapper wrote: post #6
MichaelAO wrote: post #2

I work at a school with a campus in Texas and due to COVID-19, we created an interactive live streaming platform to connect kids with the world's best teachers in a fun and safe way. All of our live streams are free and open to the public. We were previously using a combination of Streamyard + Twitch, but had to make our own for various reasons. I'll see if our CTO will give a debrief of the tech stack on this thread…

Hi, can you please do so? I am an engineer interested in starting my own streaming platform.

If you want some technical details, shoot me an email: bryant@dexterlearning.com.

Depends on what kind of streaming platform you're planning to build. If you want to have absolute control just make your own WebRTC solution. We have a bunch of other functionality so we just used Agora's API, it's been stellar thus far.

Also....we're hiring ;)

Re: Show HN: A free educational live stream platform for kids

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Post by bvergara87 »

rexreed wrote: post #7
MichaelAO wrote: post #2

I work at a school with a campus in Texas and due to COVID-19, we created an interactive live streaming platform to connect kids with the world's best teachers in a fun and safe way. All of our live streams are free and open to the public. We were previously using a combination of Streamyard + Twitch, but had to make our own for various reasons. I'll see if our CTO will give a debrief of the tech stack on this thread…

Yes - very interested in what you're using for the tech stack. Why didn't Streamyard + Twitch work? What are your operating costs (if I can ask)? For the website, is this a custom site or based on something like Wordpress? Would love to know details!

Op costs aren't crazy, a month of heavy usage cost us about $330 USD.

Re: Show HN: A free educational live stream platform for kids

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Post by MichaelAO »

rexreed wrote: post #7
MichaelAO wrote: post #2

I work at a school with a campus in Texas and due to COVID-19, we created an interactive live streaming platform to connect kids with the world's best teachers in a fun and safe way. All of our live streams are free and open to the public. We were previously using a combination of Streamyard + Twitch, but had to make our own for various reasons. I'll see if our CTO will give a debrief of the tech stack on this thread…

Yes - very interested in what you're using for the tech stack. Why didn't Streamyard + Twitch work? What are your operating costs (if I can ask)? For the website, is this a custom site or based on something like Wordpress? Would love to know details!

A big consideration was moderated chat. When we initially embedded a Twitch iframe on our LMS (streamed from Streamyard) - we had little control over who was participating. A cool side effect of it being on one platform is that our streamers can now invite students to join via video with a single click.

Re: Show HN: A free educational live stream platform for kids

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Post by whatsthatabout »

Really great idea, but is it really neccessary to have this much third party connections embedded? Like facebook, google, stripe and more that I dont know. Especially when this is advertised as something for kids. I can't find any privacy policy too...
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