Building Kuldron in public

Kuldron is a live streaming platform for the people who go live and the people who show up to watch. We are building it right now, and we are going to write about it here as we go.

What this is

A running log of the work. Some posts will be short announcements when a feature ships. Some will be the technical story behind a hard problem, like keeping a stream playing for viewers after the encoder behind it drops mid-broadcast. Some will be plain guides for small streamers who want to find an audience and keep it.

No fixed schedule. We write when there is something worth saying.

Why in public

Two reasons.

First, the work is more honest when you can see it. If we say a feature is coming, you can hold us to it. If we get something wrong, it is out in the open and we fix it in the open.

Second, a lot of what it takes to run a streaming platform is useful to other people, and none of it does any good sitting in a private repo. The codec choices, the playback edge cases, the economics of paying creators: we would rather share what we learn than keep it to ourselves.

If you stream, or you have been meaning to start, this is for you. More soon.