Hey HN!<p>One of the founders of LiveKit here. I've worked on two companies now, fifteen years apart, that needed realtime audio/video infrastructure. Turns out that even in 2021, there aren't many modern, flexible and inexpensive options. I was chatting with my fellow YCS07 batch-mate, @davidz about it, and we explored what it would take to build our own SFU on top of WebRTC. The result is LiveKit.<p>You can read the more detailed version here, if you're interested:
<a href="https://blog.livekit.io/and-were-live-kit-5dc7fe03e1bd" rel="nofollow">https://blog.livekit.io/and-were-live-kit-5dc7fe03e1bd</a><p>We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback! I'm also curious how other folks' experiences have been with Agora, Twilio, etc.<p>We'll hang out and chat here in the comments, or if you want to talk live, we hacked up an audio room in our playground (we'll be in there for a few hours, too):
<a href="https://livekit.io/playground#room=livekit-launch&code=fe54b90f36a27d35d3f0328a" rel="nofollow">https://livekit.io/playground#room=livekit-launch&code=fe54b...</a><p>Cheers!