Chat SDK
Jun 25, 2026
How to Build a Video Chat App: Architecture, WebRTC, and the Build-vs-Buy Decision
Build a video chat app in 2026: WebRTC architecture, signaling, STUN/TURN, SFU, code samples, SDK options, costs, and the build-vs-buy decision.
Development
Jun 22, 2026
Video Communication Explained: Types, Features, Protocols, and Where It Is Headed
What video communication is, the four types, must-have features, the protocols behind it (WebRTC, SIP, RTP), and the trends shaping it in 2026.
AI SDK
Jun 19, 2026
The cost of building in-app Chat and AI Agents: engineering time, hidden subsystems, and the self-hosting middle path
What building real-time chat and AI agents in-house actually costs in engineer-months: the hidden subsystems, the maintenance that never ends, and why self-hosting a chat SDK lets you own your data without building the plumbing.
Chat SDK
Jun 18, 2026
Free Live Chat Apps: 12 Tools Compared by Use Case, Free-Tier Limits, and Self-Hosting
This article groups 12 tools by what they actually do, with the real free-tier numbers – not "generous plan" hand-waving. Agents allowed, message caps, branding requirements, and what triggers the paid upgrade. You can read the section that matches your situation and skip the rest.
Chat SDK
Jun 15, 2026
Gaming Chat Apps: Voice, Text, and In-Game Communication Compared
This article has two halves. The first is for players and esports teams looking for a chat app: ten options with honest free-tier details and real pros and cons. The second is for developers adding chat inside a game – the voice tech stack, latency requirements, moderation architecture, and the SDK landscape.
Development
Jun 11, 2026
Scrape Website Data with Python: From Requests + BeautifulSoup to AI-Ready Pipelines
A few years ago, web scraping meant saving rows to a CSV. The interesting endpoint now is a vector database – an AI knowledge base that answers questions, a structured JSON feed for an LLM agent, and an embeddings store that powers a chatbot grounded in live data. The classic Requests + BeautifulSoup pair still […]
