"the best of those, Zoom, is doing very well"
Is Zoom really the best? No other comparable platform out there?
Anyone know how difficult it would be to build something like it on top of aws or a similar cloud?
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Companies have been trying to build the perfect video chat system for about 30 years. Companies with tens of billions of dollars in cash and more in stock. Almost all of them suck in various ways.
You can stream one audio+video to one person, and you can stream it to multiple people. But then do multiple duplex audio+video streams to multiple people, on multiple platforms, with low CPU, memory, and bandwidth requirements, with user controls, recording, chat, screen sharing, drawing, and 50 other features. Get 49 of them right, and the 50th feature will suck, and your users will hate it and be ready to move to a different product. I think it's one of the most complex user applications that exists.