Comment by @naomi • Hey
Tagging @timotej.lens who's dealing with infra/DevOps (I do my best to try and help out but it's definitely not my area of expertise)
We're working on depl
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- Forgot to mention, we have features planned that we hope could generate enough revenue to cover infra costs and *maybe* pay ourselves too
We want to get a few of these up before beta as well
For anyone curious, you can check our planned improvements and features ⤵️
https://letsrallyfm.notion.site/751532773c1d4e2aa064ebefcce4e552?v=ab4bd462546545ed9eaa75a7ecf32a1d
- Is this solely a money issue @naomi.lens @timotej.lens? If so I imagine the community can come together and find some grants, crowdfund or other forms of money injection ie angel, VC, etc
- For anyone curious about why we don't go with the paid tiers for now, you can check here: https://livekit.io/pricing/calculator
We wish we could, but we are paying ourselves out of pocket + with whatever we can earn from participating to hackathons and what we can get from grant programs/accelerators
Quality, real time infra that scales without compromising on quality is expensive, and it's a necessary expense. Honestly Livekit is an amazing solution, the best in terms of pricing AND in terms of features AND in terms of SDK imo - but we can't afford their hosted solution right now, and if they decide to change their pricing policy or shut down we'd be F-ed.
Luckily for us, it's open source and it's possible to self host it!
Deploying to Akash could help us slash down costs by a lot, so that's our focus for now before announcing to everyone they can have quality voice chat that they can record without us charging you per min/sec like other solutions 😊
So yeah, wait and see 👀
- Yeah it's been open for awhile now!
- So we could test it at a smaller scale, right?
@chriscomrie.lens hear me out!!