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Hey! Jon from Mux here. Curious about this comment:

> the business model won't tolerate the amount of video on someone else's service

Does that mean you aren't using S3/EC2 or the like, or is there something about how we've built our cloud platform that doesn't work for your business model? We've designed Mux to be a low-level primitive for video, like Twilio is for SMS, so I'd be interested if we're doing something that makes this harder for you.

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Hey Jon! I've looked at Mux (mainly the careers page), and it's a great platform. It would be a great fit technologically, but I'm not sure that my business model (which is tentative admittedly) would cover infra costs for processing, hosting and consuming the amount of video I'm eventually expecting, as I'm running on a shoestring budget at the moment.

Plus, it's a good chance to for me to learn the ins and outs of video. It's not reflective of the quality of your platform, just a choice I've made early in the piece for curiosity's sake.

Cool - thanks for the reply!

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Thanks, I'll have a look. If it appears as though it's not worth the effort to maintain my own video infra, you're the first choice.

And this is why Mux is awesome.

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