The hidden cost of building your own.
Building a video recording solution sounds straightforward. It never is. What starts as a two-week sprint turns into months of work, and your best engineers, the ones you hired to build your product, end up maintaining a video stack instead.
If you build it You own the risk
- Edge cases and browser bugs you only discover in production
- Browser bugs you can't replicate
- Every API deprecation, iOS and browser update
- Every new device your users buy
- Security updates for your infrastructure
- Storage downtime and peak periods
You're not just writing code. You're committing to owning it, forever.
With AddPipe Platform We handle it
- A recording client tested on real devices and browsers
- Browser-introduced issues usually patched right away
- Reliability and uptime built in, not bolted on
- Peaks absorbed by a smart queue and lanes
- Retries when your storage is down
- A fixed, predictable cost
You're buying back that time. Your engineers stay focused on what makes your product unique.
Side by side.
| Criteria | Build your own | AddPipe Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first recording | Weeks to months | Minutes |
| Engineering cost | Ongoing, your team's time | Fixed and predictable |
| Browser and device compatibility | Your problem to maintain | Handled for you |
| Reliability and uptime | On you to monitor and fix | Built in, battle-tested |
| New features | Scoped, prioritized, scheduled | Shipped continuously |
| Opportunity cost | High, diverts your core team | Zero |
Would you build your own Amazon S3?
No. Not when you need availability regions, uptime and SOC 2. Your team's time is your most valuable resource. Don't spend it reinventing infrastructure that already exists.
Peaks, post-processing and storage. Handled.
The work that sits around the recorder, done before you ask for it.
Peaks, handled
A smart queue and lanes handle load during peak events. Students all taking an exam at once, or async video interviews in a short window: the platform accepts the flurry of new recordings and throttles the processing.
Storage, handled
Up to 1 TB of complimentary storage on our Amazon S3 and Scaleway buckets, or your own: S3, Cloudflare R2, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage or Box. If a push fails, we retry for about 72 hours and log every attempt. Storage integrations.
Universal MP4 output
Every recording is processed into a clean MP4, optimized for native playback in browsers, desktop players and mobile devices. No extra work on your end.
Thumbnails and filmstrips
A snapshot and a filmstrip are extracted automatically for every recording, ready to use in your UI.
Instant playback
Keyframe placement, and a MOOV atom at the start with the correct duration, mean playback starts immediately. No buffering, no tinkering.
Optional watermarking
Need to brand or protect recordings? Watermarking is built in and ready to enable.
Details.
How long does it take to get a first recording with AddPipe?
Minutes. Building your own usually takes weeks to months, and after that your team has to keep maintaining it.
What happens when a lot of people record at the same time?
AddPipe uses a smart queue and lanes to handle peak events, such as students all taking an exam at once or async video interviews in a short window. It accepts the flurry of new recordings and throttles the processing.
Where are the recordings stored?
We offer complimentary storage for up to 1 TB on our own Amazon S3 and Scaleway buckets. We also push to Amazon S3 and compatible services like Cloudflare R2, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage and Box.
What if my storage is down?
If your storage provider or server is down, or you accidentally revoke the S3 IAM user's permissions, AddPipe keeps retrying the push for about 72 hours, with progressively longer intervals. Every attempt is logged.
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