WhosLive operates an aggregation platform that indexes live video streams from major services such as Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, allowing users to search and browse content across all platforms in one place. The service targets viewers seeking a centralized discovery experience and streamers looking to increase visibility. Revenue is generated through targeted advertising and premium subscription features that offer advanced filtering, analytics, and ad‑free browsing.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Viewers and developers must navigate multiple, siloed live‑stream platforms to find real‑time video content, leading to fragmented discovery, missed opportunities, and inefficient data collection across languages, categories, and game titles.
Solution
WhosLive operates a cloud‑native aggregation service that continuously ingests live video feeds from major platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and regional providers. A unified indexing engine normalizes metadata and stores it in a searchable datastore, enabling instant filtering by language, content category, or specific game titles. The web interface presents a consolidated, real‑time catalog with view‑count metrics and thumbnail previews, while a RESTful API delivers bulk stream data for third‑party applications. Advertising is served within the free consumer portal, and developers can subscribe to premium API tiers for higher request limits and SLA guarantees. The platform scales horizontally using containerized microservices and a CDN edge layer to ensure low‑latency access worldwide.
Target Audience
The primary users are live‑stream viewers seeking a single portal to discover real‑time content across platforms, and developers or media companies that require programmatic access to aggregated stream metadata for analytics, recommendation engines, or embedding live feeds.
Features
- Real‑time ingestion pipelines that capture live streams from YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and selected regional services via platform SDKs and webhooks
- Metadata normalization and enrichment (language, category, game title, viewer count) stored in a searchable Elasticsearch cluster
- Multi‑facet filtering UI supporting language, genre, esports titles, news, and science & technology streams
- High‑performance RESTful API with pagination, rate‑limiting, and JSON responses for bulk stream queries
- Containerized microservice architecture orchestrated with Kubernetes for automatic scaling and fault tolerance
- Integrated ad server delivering targeted display ads in the consumer portal, with reporting dashboards for advertisers
- SLA‑backed premium API plans offering higher QPS, dedicated support, and custom data export formats
- CDN‑accelerated static assets and thumbnail delivery to minimize latency for global users