SuperStream
A fully decentralized livestreaming and creator platform.
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About
The problem it solves ### Problems with centralized creator platforms. The main problem with centralized platforms like Youtube, Twitch , etc. is that the content is not owned by the creators , rather it is owned by the company and also they take a huge chunk of revenue as commission . They also can block or suspend your channel or content as they please or from external pressure from government . As an example Youtube recently blocked news channel WION for reporting russian statement . ### Introduction **Superstream** is a fully decentralized live streaming and creator platform on polygon where users can watch / create livestreams , send/receive tips , subscribe to their favorite creators , etc. ### Features - All users get a profile nft associated with their Superstream Account. - Can mint and publish recorded live streams as nft . - All data stored in ipfs or blockhain. - Send or receive tips directly into your wallet in MATIC. - Innovative Subscription plan , only pay for every second that you are subscribed ( using superfluid protocol ). - Live Chat and Comments. ### Technologies Used in the project - This project is built on **POLYGON** , currently deployed on Mumbai testnet. - Leverages **Livepeer** transcoding and cdn services for streaming and recording stream. - **IPFS & Filecoin** , all the profile pictures , images and videos and stored in ifps filecoin utlising web3.storage sdk. - It also uses **Chainlink** for live price exchange rate between MATIC and USDT when sending Tips. - It uses **Superfluid** for handling subscriptions
How it's made
Challenges we ran into I faced many challenges throughout the develpoment of the project such as - Thinking about architechture and schema for storing various data like users, streams etc. - I am new to blockchain so I faced many error and bugs during smart contract develpoment and had hard time integrating with frontend . - I had to do lot of trail and error which took the majority of my time . - The subscription flow was a little hard to think and implement but I was able to do it thanks to Superfluid sdk. - In the front end side , I had problems like listening to events , filters , and updating the ui which i could not solve due to time constraint. Overall this was a huge learning experience for me I learnt a lot of things about blockchain development flow , how to approach big projects and solve complex problems like user system , subscription . I was able to learn about events and filters in the last few days but could not implement it properly in the frontend.