In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Ian Ramzy about ZipCall.io — how he built it, why, and some of the surprising choices he made along the way.

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Guests

• Ian Ramzy

Show Notes

02:08 - Who are you and what’s your background?

05:34 - Why did you build this?

13:55 - What is it built in?

• Express server
• Web sockets

16:10 - Why is there no tooling?

• GetUserMedia
• WebRTC
• Twilio STUN/TURN/ICE infrastructure
  • https://www.twilio.com/docs/stun-turn/faq

VideoChat.peerConnection = new RTCPeerConnection({ iceServers: token.iceServers, });

24:31 - How does your server deal with an influx of users?

27:11 - How do each of these features work?

• Auto-scaling video quality
• Text chat
• Screen sharing
• Picture in picture
• Live captions
• Loading animation
• No download required, entirely browser based
• Direct peer to peer connection ensures lowest latency
• Single use disposable chat rooms

41:32 - Have you looked into any of the recording APIs?

Links

• ZipCall
• Zoom
• jQuery
• WebTorrent
• Heroku
• Adopter.js
• Figma

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