Why Pion Ion

Show HN: pion/ion, conferencing software that takes one command to deploy

Really excited to share pion/ion! It is a distributed RTC System written in Pure Go and Flutter. It can be used for video conferencing, live streaming and most other media streaming problems. It has a lot of interesting features, but the ones that seem to excite people the most are.

• Distributed by default - Designed to allow running different workloads and scaling them out as you need
• Flutter and JS SDK - Ready to be used on Web, Android and iOS!
• Designed to be modified - Modify the UI/Backend so you can have custom experiences for your use cases. As long as you satisfy public APIs any piece can be swapped.
• Easy to deploy - docker-compose with LetsEncrypt support. Spin up a conference server with on command
• Performant - You can run multi person conference calls on AWS free tier instances
• A joy to develop - Pure Go means quick builds, and a code base that anyone can contribute too!
• Community owned - The only thing driving the project is the contributors and users

We also plan on adding lots more, with some of the following in our road-map already. [0]

• RTMP Ingestion
• SIP Support
• Server Side Processing/OpenCV
• Record calls

We would also love to have you! If you are interested in working on this project you should join our Slack[1]

[0] https://github.com/pion/ion/projects/1 [1] https://pion.ly/slack