Let the world see what matters.
HUMANITY BROADCAST
Humanity Broadcast set out to let anyone capture a 60-second video about a cause or moment that mattered to them, and put it in front of the world, human-interest storytelling built for a feed, at a time when short-form video was still new territory.
Video capture happens on-device with a hard 60-second cap, compressed client-side before upload to keep bandwidth and playback latency manageable on weaker connections. The feed is server-paginated and ranked by recency and engagement rather than a heavy recommendation model, because the priority was surfacing what's happening now, not personalizing a large-scale content graph.
60 seconds, enforced server-side
The duration cap isn't just a UI limit: the API rejects anything longer, so storage and CDN costs stay predictable regardless of what a client app tries to upload.
Resumable, chunked uploads
Uploads are chunked and resumable, so a video recorded on a shaky mobile connection doesn't have to restart from zero if the connection drops halfway through.
Near-live, not real-time
The feed refreshes on a short interval rather than over a persistent WebSocket connection, a few seconds of latency traded for a backend that stays simple and cheap to run at the traffic the app actually saw.
Users could capture and publish a moment in under a minute end to end, on both Android and iOS, on a backend built to keep hosting costs sane instead of over-engineering for hypothetical scale on day one.
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