Progressive Upload by api.video — A revolutionary approach to video processing

👋 Hey there PH community! Thanks @benln for hunting us! 🙌 We're super excited to launch the Progressive Upload API & Clients today: a radically new way to let your app's users simultaneously create and upload their videos, making their content available in seconds, just after they end their recording! ❓ The problem As a product builder, most of your users are unaware of what it takes to make their videos ready to play in seconds, not minutes. And if it doesn't load in 1 second, they complain, or worse, churn. So, you have to offer the best possible workflow and playback experience to keep them happy. ✅ Our solution While we can't make end-users more patient, Progressive Upload can make videos available for playback 88% faster :) There is no need to create a video locally, upload it, and then wait for transcoding before getting a link to share. Your users press record, and once they finish recording, their video is available almost immediately worldwide! ⚡ 🛠️ What you can build with it - In a social app: empower your users to engage by letting them record videos with one click. - In a messaging or e-learning app: offer your users the seamless experience of recording their screen and camera to share ideas. - In a video-conference solution: push the session to api.video to get a high-quality video recording available right after the meeting. - With IoT and ground cameras: get recordings of what they see in seconds. ✌️ Write a few lines of code with the help of our API Clients without needing expertise in video/media transcoding, hosting, or streaming. ❤️ We have to thank our developer community for inspiring this product idea! We can't wait to see what you will build with api.video 🙌🏼 Check out the tutorial or directly try it for yourself! https://upstream.a.video/

Neva Ballet is a dance & fitness online platform launched by Valentina Zatevalneva in 2020. We are using api.video to allow our students, who cannot attend the live sessions, to review the classes in HD at any time. As a beta tester of the new progressive upload feature, I can say that it allowed us to improve the overall experience for our users significantly! It was super important for our students, unable to join the Zoom sessions or those wanting to review the course after it ends, to (re)watch it. Now, the replay is available in just a few seconds after the course ends - that's a real and meaningful differentiator for us ! Go api.video !!

So excited to see this feature finally out! 🙏 This also solves a long-time issue with uploads of large video files to the internet. 📼

Hi PH community! Hope you will like this unique feature. We have worked on making it easy and quick to implement. Enjoy it.

I can’t wait to see the new projects that will be based on this feature!

Congratulations on the progressive upload feature launch @erskingardner and the rest of the api.video team. We've been using api.video to deliver the livestream video experience for large scale arena shows across our web and app platforms with great success. The integration into our platforms made the project a breeze. Looking forward to seeing what is next

i've been following @cedric_io1 & api.video since mid 2019 and they're killing it ! no doubt Progressive Upload by api.video will help builders achieve so much more.

Congratulations on the launch :)

This is truly exciting - the new approach to video uploading opens up so many opportunities for our users. Well done team!

Looks so nice! 👍

Really nice feature ! We are eager to implement this progressive upload feature in our website beeready.io, an async video platform that connects people who have a hiring appointment with experts to train them and maximize their chances of getting the job they are applying for. Our end-users must focus on their training, not the technical steps needed to record themselves and upload the video on our platform. Your feature is super impressive, and we will be happy to be able to provide such an experience to our users! Good luck with the launch!

That's impressive, really nice! Good luck with the launch team 🚀

Love this! Seems super useful for generating video clips.

Looks great!

Great!

Great product ! Congrats for the launch 🚀

We are providing a video platform helping top-level athletes to review their performances. Back in a day, athletes were recording their footages from phones, so they had to watch themselves on a small screen. We have been using this feature as beta for a few weeks now, and it changed the whole workflow. We are now providing an experience that fits athletes' expectations: they can review their moves right after the session, in HD and on large screens (computers and TV). That is definitely a game-changer for the end user.

Super impressed by the Api.Video product. Well done 🚀

Awesome Idea man. 🎉👏👏👏

This looks perfect for handling user recordings programatically - very interesting release for the video world and the community of video app builders