Product Hunt interviews Periscope: where it came from and its pivot from photos to video

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by Sindy Cator on March 27, 2015 at 12:05 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Periscope, the new video streaming app owned by Twitter, launched today. In that time, we’ve seen users stream everything from their walk to work to an explosion in NYC. Jessica Verrilli, Director of corporate development and strategy at Twitter joined Kayvon Beykpour, co-founder of Periscope, and Aaron Wasserman the first engineer at Periscope to talk with Product Hunt Live to discuss where the app came from and more. When did you start working on the app? The team built the first version of Periscope in its current form around May 2014. Before then, it was working together on an app called ‘Bounty’ that allowed you to…