Hey all,
I'm developing an imgvue spin-off called Vue Live as part of the Kin Crypto Challenge.
It's essentially a live video streaming app with Kin!
The vision for Vue Live is very similar to imgvue: enabling creators to get rewarded for their creativity and passion.
Here’s how it works, in three simple steps:
- Create a live stream
- Share your unique Vue.Live link with your fans and followers
- Go Live and start earning KIN tips from your viewers!
Demo of Vue Live v1.0:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTyfXfkhHS0
This initial version of the app is very basic as the challenge was to get scalable live-streaming to work with thousands of simultaneous users, but it already includes full Kin functionality such as: Tipping, Backup/Restore, Ecosystem Discovery and Send/Withdraw.
Planned features
- Real-time synchronised chat
- Premium streams
- In-app purchases of Kin in certain regions
Something that I'd like to include but unfortunately don't have the resources for at the moment:
Public discovery of live-streams
This is a bit of a challenge as Google/Apple have very strict rules regarding live-streaming apps:
problematic User Generated Content must be removed in as close to real-time as possible;
How do we solve the problem of 24/7 real-time moderation? I think there are three ways we could go about it:
- Hire more staff (e.g. to do shifts in different time-zones)
- Use Artificial Intelligence (e.g. https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/docs/streaming/live-streaming-overview)
- Community moderation with incentives (e.g. earn Kin when flagged content gets unlisted by A.I. and/or staff)
But further development of all of this is going to require a lot more funding than I currently have in the company.
imgvue and Vue Live
Both of these projects will be developed in parallel and share some of the same underlying infrastructure such as servers and databases.
But by separating them out, I will be able to experiment with different app concepts and business models.
imgvue will ultimately become crypto-agnostic, meaning it will support multiple blockchains starting with Stellar Lumens (XLM).
For imgvue, this means that in the future you will be able to tip, earn, buy and sell assets issued on the Stellar network such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Vue Live is going to be all-in on Kin, but for this I need community support to take this to the next level.
Development and Marketing Budget
If Vue Live wins a substantial prize in the Kin Crypto Challenge, I would use these funds to:
- further develop Vue Live features, e.g. in-app purchases of Kin (pending legal clearance)
- hold an exclusive live-streaming event with a social media figure, potentially reaching thousands of new users and get them to learn about the Kin Ecosystem in the process
- pay for infrastructure costs (currently estimated to be at least $0.18/min per stream, not counting viewers)
Vote in the Kin Crypto Challenge
If you want to support the devs working on building creative and addictive peer-to-peer Kin experiences, please remember to vote in the Kin Crypto Challenge here:
https://kinchallenge.devpost.com
If you'd like to vote for Vue Live, you can find the submission here:
https://devpost.com/software/vue-live
Public voting opens tomorrow, October 17 at 9:00am EDT and ends October 25 at 5:00pm EDT.
Ultimately, the submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges and I hope to get their support as well.
I'm always available for any questions anyone may have, just comment on here, send me a message privately or email me: admin [at] imgvue.com
Many thanks,
Melvin
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