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		michealr on May 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? Cool, really like this idea, what are you using for the video chat to allow programmatically changing people? and how do you handle the data loads for hosting video? could imagine it could get pricey or is it peer to peer

andrewicarlson on May 14, 2020 [–]

Thanks! I'm using Twilio's Programmable Video API https://www.twilio.com/docs/video so there is a cost, but it's not a pre-provisioned service so it's manageable.

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