David, Tyler, Paul, and Vu have built something awesome that allows anyone to create. I already know people who can't stop using it. I just wonder what happens once it explodes...
I've been working on something myself this past summer for Android. The difficulty is that you have to create something that can stream video at a high quality despite a poor connection. People will tolerate compression artifacts in a live stream, but on replay the video should be full quality. I think I've come up to a solution for this, but I've had to dig through a bunch of compression research papers.
Of course, if my little hobby ever takes off at some point I don't know what I'll do -- without a good way to monetize quickly, there's no way I can afford the bandwidth of streaming video.
And we get to see everyone testing out Tapin.tv live lolz...
Looks like fun, would love to see more tagging and sorting of what's available to watch - I'll look forward to more features to come! Great job guys!
A lot of the upvotes come from the fact that people share TechCrunch stories with everyone they know. There seems to be a big feedback loop effect with TechCrunch.
Building on fire? 10 phones point at it. Major disaster? 10 more phones. Amusing thing, anywhere? 10 phones, and it's archived for anyone to watch later.
Everything would be geotagged and browsable by category, description and radius. Say you wanted to check out the clubs in a 1km radius - just filter by that criteria and see where the hot party is. There is some protest going on right now and you want to see what is happening? Check it out in real time. You are late for a concert and don't wanna miss out? Just watch one of the 50 streams being recorded live. Want to see how war really looks like? You can.
There was a gmaps overlay and some other features I don't remember anymore.
Anyways, I didn't get sponsored (the best 100 or so apps got $25k), and with 10 other competing live streaming services I kinda scrapped the project. Fun to see how history repeats itself, although I thought this was already a solved problem. Maybe I should have pressed on back then :)
