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Steve Heffernan

Steve Heffernan

Co-founder and Product Architect, Mux Platform
Creator of Video.js and co-founder of Zencoder. Semi-professional drummer and apparently drove a Civic lowered more than Mux's live latency in high school.
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02/15/23February 15, 2023(about 1 month ago)
7 min read

Our newest pricing lever: Resolution-based pricing for Mux Video

Steve Heffernan
by Steve Heffernan
Product7 min read
We lowered our pay-as-you-go pricing for video Encoding, Storage and Streaming at 720p or lower, giving you new ways to control your streaming costs!
An illustration of Steve Ballmer saying "developers, developersl, developers"
12/14/21December 14, 2021(over 1 year ago)
6 min read

Being a great developer product company is more than building products for developers

Steve Heffernan
Matthew McClure
Jon Dahl
Adam Brown
by Steve and 3 more
Company6 min read
Developer product companies, despite massive success in some cases, are still early, and the playbooks aren’t as developed.
New pricing
05/06/21May 6, 2021(almost 2 years ago)
3 min read

New lower, simplified pricing for Mux Video

Steve Heffernan
by Steve Heffernan
Product3 min read
We strive to make video simple to use and that applies to pricing too. Today, we’re rolling out updated pricing that removes a layer of complexity and makes it that much easier to use Mux.
Live interactive video like hq
02/13/20February 13, 2020(about 3 years ago)
10 min read

How to Build Interactive Live Video (remember HQ Trivia?)

Steve Heffernan
Dylan Jhaveri
by Steve and Dylan
Video education10 min read
Steve and Dylan discuss how you might go about building a live interactive video solution that is scalable.
Seeing double? Let your users simulcast (aka restream) to any social platform
11/11/19November 11, 2019(over 3 years ago)
2 min read

Seeing double? Let your users simulcast (aka restream) to any social platform

Steve Heffernan
by Steve Heffernan
Product2 min read
With the new Simulcast Targets feature, developers can now let their users publish live streams on social platforms.
Is it recording yet? New Live Stream Webhook Events!
04/01/19April 1, 2019(almost 4 years ago)
3 min read

Is it recording yet? New Live Stream Webhook Events!

Steve Heffernan
by Steve Heffernan
Product3 min read
We just added a few new events to Mux's Live Streams that let you build more helpful UIs for streamers and help debug issues when they happen. These include: CONNECTED (video.live_stream.connected) - ...
Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup
04/06/17April 6, 2017(almost 6 years ago)
2 min read

Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup

Steve Heffernan
by Steve Heffernan
Product2 min read
We started Mux because we saw what the most advanced video companies had built to monitor their viewer experience, and we wanted to bring it to everyone.