Developer Guide

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

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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