Apollo 350 built an in-browser platform for a startup to support live video AMA (ask me anything) events. We needed to support thousands of viewers and multiple video conference hosts, where the hosts could talk in real-time to each other. We wanted a solution that would allow us to customize the video that was available for viewers. In our case, we needed to shape the video of each host into a circle and animate them larger/smaller based on who was speaking. We also did not want to rely on any processing on the “hosts'” side due to host browser limitations. The “hosts” would simply log into the website and be able to broadcast from their browser (desktop or mobile).

We had to build this quickly and needed to leverage existing services like Twilio, but we also built some custom solutions of our own. We’ll talk about the process of how we got to a working product and the decisions (both good and bad) that we had to make. We will share the architecture we ended up with. Apollo 350 is a software consulting company that has extensive experience building and launching video products to millions of users with billions of views. We consist of tech executives and leads who launched VEVO, Condé Nast Entertainment, and LinkedIn Video. Presented at Demuxed 2021.