dhruvs009 / strether

strether

A collaborative effort by #@$# Brownies

Project : Strether is an Blockchain based streaming service where there is an option to pay as you watch or instant pay. Transaction is highly secured due to the incorporation of the Blockchain technology. Moreover, the concept of pay as you watch is not very extensively used in current time but we thought it provides user with lot of liberty in the sense that he/she doesn't need to pay for the whole seminar/live-stream/media, if they only want to experience a part of the whole thing.

Tech Stack : Real Time Messaging Protocol
Ethereum
Ganache
Truffle
Metamask
Python
tkinter
Nodejs
Get/Post APIs
Etherscan for Development purpose
ant-media-server
WebRTCApp
Angularjs
Reactjs
Web3js
Postman
PostgreSQL
Firebase\

Uniqueness : * Most of the streaming apps are centralized/server based, so we made an attempt to build a DApp. * We have provided Blockchain based payment with the help of Ethereum Blockchain. * We have incorporated pay as you watch feature which would help user pay for only the time they were streaming the video.

Problems Faced : Since, pay-as-you-watch feature require transacting with the Blockchain with just an interval of 1 second. It needed to be scaled because the block time for Ethereum is 15-18 seconds which is quite huge for this kind of service. So, we decided to go with MATIC NETWORK since it provides one of the sidechain plasma based solution for scaling. But, we faced a significant problems using MATIC due to unavailability of a big enough
developer community.