iStream
Distributed video streaming with adaptive bitrate support
What this is
iStream is a self-built distributed live streaming platform handling RTMP ingest, transcoding, and HLS delivery with chat, superchat payments, and Cloudflare R2 storage, instead of relying on managed streaming services.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- RTMP ingest, FFmpeg transcoding, and HLS delivery, with chat, superchat payments, and worker autoscaling via Cloudflare R2.
- Best for
- Teams building a production-grade streaming stack without managed services.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 12 days
- Last checked
- 6d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Finance. Launched 12d ago on PeerPush, where it placed #521. Today, the site itself changed 7d ago — evidence it's still shipping, not just announcing.
Quiet for 6 days — no penalty yet, but quiet doesn't stay free.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It placed #521 on PeerPush with 4 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
1 quiet day in between are left out — nothing happened on them. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
iStream is an abs supported distributed live streaming platform engineered to reproduce a production-grade streaming stack without managed streaming services, handling the complete pipeline from RTMP ingest through FFmpeg -> transcoding into diff qualities -> HLS delivery : live -> via a static nginx server : VOD -> via cloudflare R2. With dynamic worker autoscaling, segment-level R2 uploads and minimal disk writes, iStream comes alongside as a modern architechture with chat support via namespaces, integration of payment-gateway for superchats, seperate notification service for isolated deliveries via queue/exchangers, reconcilliation service for cleaning up expired payments and dead streams. The goal was not to use managed streaming services but to build every layer: from RTMP ingest to HLS delivery, from autoscaling worker containers to real-time socket communication.
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeerPush | 4 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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