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Hi, we are two GenZ cofounders (24 and 21) building the first study stream platform in Southeast Asia to help young professionals focus and feel less lonely. Check us out at: www.lean.social
Our biggest struggle right now is our video streaming infrastructure and its prohibitive cost. We are using P2P WebRTC and each video room has a limit of 5 participants. There is no cost but it's very limiting and low-performance.
If we wanted more, we have 2 options:
1/ Buy a video sdk server plan (Twilio, Daily.co, Agora, Amazon Chime, etc):
- The cheapest these can get is 0.0015$ per participant minute. Without scale it is 0.004$/participant minute
- This is prohibitively expensive for us with limited funding. 1000 users using our service for 2 hours daily is a 10$k bill montly
Is there any more affordable providers? How much of the cost can we save if:
- We increase the latency to 10-15s? Real-time is not important for us
- We Reduce the video resolution to super low ~ 240p? Our video frame is very small to increase focus
2/ Build our own self-hosted server:
- We are leaning towards open-source projects like LiveKit (seems better) and Jitsi. We plan to host the instances on AWS because of our CTO's familiarity with its infrastructure.
Has anyone tried building B2C social apps with video calls from open-source projects like these? Could you share:
- How much does self-hosting on aws would save us?
- How deeply can we customize their UI? We don't do anything like the usual video conferencing layout. We want to build our own layout which is vastly different.
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