HOW TO DEVELOP AN APP LIKE PERISCOPE?
Streaming apps have taken the Internet by storm. They let users easily capture and broadcast live videos in addition to sharing some great moments of their lives, take part in online conferences and meetings and even benefit from online consultations provided by healthcare organizations remotely. Live video streaming apps are flushing the market of mobile applications highlighting enormous demand.
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Periscope is a perfect example of such a successful streaming product featuring millions of broadcasts globally. Acquired by Twitter in 2015, the product is certainly a flagship in the streaming app industry performing outstanding results as for newly established startup.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE PERISCOPE HISTORY
You will hardly meet an app user who has never heard of Periscope. However, a few people know that the initial name of the project was “Bounty”. The idea of building a globally successful streaming app appeared in 2014 when two friends Joe Bernstein and Kayvon Beykpour came up with a wish of developing an application that would come as a separate video streaming service with a real-time operation as its main feature.
The idea was to develop a product that provides access to video content from any part of the world. Despite the fact, their initial app was a great success there were numerous complaints about the low-quality content and poor running.
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