I tested 5 managed video APIs back-to-back — here's the rig and what shipped

📦 Code: github.com/USER/video-api-bakeoff — replace before publishing. TL;DR Same source file, same network, same code. I built a tiny Node + React rig that uploads a test video to five managed video APIs (Mux, Cloudflare Stream, api.video, FastPix, AWS), waits for ready, and logs upload time, time-to-ready, and time-to-first-frame. The result isn't a single winner — it's a decision tree. What we're building A repeatable test harness, end-to-end: A Node script that upl...