Announcing Mux Video: a simple API to powerful video streaming

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11 pointsjon_dahl3 comments

Hi everyone, one of the Mux founders here. We've been thinking about this product for years and are excited to finally talk about it.

As video engineeers, it's hard to complain too much about the barrier to entry into online video, but we think it's time for that to change. Happy to answer any questions!

Are you guys building an AWS for Video? So I can create a youtube without needing to build all the backend software and hardware infrastructure to do so?

Yeah, I'd say that's pretty spot on! We want to allow people to build amazing video software without needing to cobble together their own solution (while learning the infinite intricacies of video in the process if they don't have a background in the industry).

The only minor quibble is that I don't think many people would say AWS is a great developer experience. The sum of all the parts there are, undeniably, incredibly powerful, but putting all the pieces together is still an exercise left to the reader. We think there's a lot of power and freedom to be had in just needing to think about video as a solved problem so you can build wonderful experiences around it.

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