Developer Guide

A guide to building on Livepeer for video streaming and AI pipelines

Overview

Anyone building software that uses Livepeer compute, contributes to the Livepeer Protocol, or builds tooling for network operators is a developer.

This section is for those folks looking to …

The easiest way to use AI or video is to use a hosted service such as Daydream or Livepeer Studio. If you want to develop directly on the protocol… you’ll start by running your own gateway node.

Test Diagram 1: Possible Definitions

Test Diagram 2: Possible Journeys

[TEST] Developer Journey

Testing developer Journey

What do you want to do?

Stream Video

Broadcast Real-Time Video

Run AI Pipelines

Run AI Pipelines on Livepeer

Build Your Own App

Build Your Own App

Integrate With Livepeer

Integrate With Livepeer

Build Your Own Protocol Platform

Placeholder - Build your own platorm

Contribute to the Ecosystem

Contribute to the Ecosystem as an OSS Developer

Build Your Own Business On Livepeer

Be a founder

Find & Win Hackathons

Win Hacks

Find Opportunities

Find Grants, RFPs & Other Opportunities

Possible persona journeys

What are the possible persona journeys.

Brainstorm Content

Developer Mapping: - Using a hosted gateway → Application Developer - Running their own gateway → Gateway Operator - Extending protocol contracts → Protocol Developer - Building node tooling → Tooling / Data Engineer - Helping grow ecosystem → Community / Governance Builder