Example Applications

Curated example applications and starter projects across Livepeer’s AI, video, and compute surfaces. Working code, tutorials, and reference implementations.

This page catalogues working example applications across Livepeer’s developer surface: tutorial-shaped projects you can clone, run, and modify into a production app. Each example exists because a category needs a reference implementation; together they cover the AI, video, and compute surfaces that the Developers tab walks through in detail.

For the underlying primitives each example uses, follow the links from the example back to the relevant concept or reference page.

AI Application Examples

The AI surface examples cover batch inference, real-time AI, and agent frameworks. Each is a runnable starting point; copy, modify, ship.

Example	What it shows	Primary surface
	Next.js 15 app with Server Action calling text-to-image; gallery, model picker, error handling	AI Jobs API
	Streaming chat via Server-Sent Events on the LLM pipeline	AI Jobs API (LLM)
	Webcam to anime avatar via ComfyStream + StreamDiffusion + DWPose	Real-time AI
	Multi-layer agent: character file, RAG, Slack and Discord clients, SwarmZero multi-agent	LLM pipeline + agent framework
	Custom Python container as a network capability; green-tint frame processor	BYOC
	First real-time AI effect on a webcam in fifteen minutes	Real-time AI

Video Application Examples

The video surface examples cover live streaming, VOD, and decentralised storage integration.

Example	What it shows	Primary surface
	Sub-3s glass-to-glass WHIP ingest plus WHEP playback in Next.js	Live streaming
	TUS resumable upload, asset lifecycle polling, HLS playback	VOD
	Upload to web3.storage, fetch into Livepeer, play back with HLS	VOD + decentralised storage
	Self-hosted Gateway and Orchestrator transcoding RTMP to HLS	Self-hosted transcoding

Platform and Integration Examples

The platform surface examples cover multi-tenant SaaS patterns, NaaP plugin development, and ecosystem integrations.

Example	What it shows	Primary surface
	OIDC identity, per-user usage ledger, payment ticket signing	Multi-tenant SaaS
	Scaffold, develop, and publish a NaaP plugin with ShellContext	Operator portal plugin
	AT Protocol-native video infrastructure routing	AT Protocol + BYOC

Legacy Example Applications

The earlier round of example applications shipped against the v1 Livepeer Studio surface. They remain useful for patterns even though some integrations have shifted.

Example	What it shows
React Native Example App	YouTube clone using Livepeer React in React Native
Justcast.it	One-click “start a livestream” pattern integrated against a Gateway
EVM Token-Gated Livestream	Token-gated livestream creation across EVM-compatible chains
Decentralised Storage Playback	Playing video from IPFS or Arweave via the Livepeer Player

These examples are linked from livepeer/awesome-livepeer for direct repository access.

Picking by Category

Choose an example by what you want to build. The decision points:

If you’re building	Start with
An AI image or video generation app	AI Image Generation App
A chat product	LLM Chatbot, then Eliza Livepeer Plugin for agent depth
A live streaming platform	Low-Latency Live Streaming App
A VOD platform (Mux-shaped)	VOD Upload and Playback
A custom inference pipeline	BYOC Quickstart
A real-time AI effect or avatar	ComfyStream Quickstart, then VTuber Avatar Pipeline
A multi-tenant SaaS on Livepeer compute	Multi-Tenant Billing with pymthouse
An operator-facing dashboard plugin	NaaP Plugin
A decentralised social or AT Protocol video app	Streamplace Integration

For category overlap (e.g. an AI chatbot with custom inference), start with the closer single-category example and layer in the second category’s pattern once the first is running.

Community Examples

The full community-maintained list of examples, tutorials, demos, and integrations lives at (browseable at livepeer.cool). Categories include:

• SDKs and developer libraries across TypeScript, Python, Go, and React
• Orchestrator and node operator tools (monitoring, alerts, exporters)
• Community dashboards (Dune, Explorer, performance trackers)
• Ecosystem applications (Daydream, Streamplace, Embody, Frameworks, Harmonic)
• No-code integration (Bubble plugin, Studio CLI scaffolds)

The awesome-livepeer repository is open to contributions; submit a PR to add an example that’s missing.

Next Steps

AI Pipelines

The full pipeline reference behind the AI examples.

AI SDKs Overview

The TypeScript and Python SDKs the examples use.

Awesome Livepeer

Full community-curated directory of tools and integrations.

Production Hardening

From example to production: auth, rate limits, observability.