# Vabu OS Docs

Vabu OS is the infrastructure for live experiences in Africa. One API for events, fans, commerce, streaming, messaging and payments.

## Who it is for

Vabu OS is for the people who build and run live experiences: a nightlife app that streams its DJs, a church that streams its services, a sports league that sells match passes, an events company that sells tickets and sends reminders. If your product has a crowd, a ticket, a stream or a fan, there is a piece here for it.

## Bring your own login and payments, or use ours

You choose how much of the platform to take.

- **Keep your own login.** Your server tells Vabu who is signed in, with a short token. Or use Vabu ID, with phone codes on WhatsApp and SMS, email links and Google.
- **Keep your own payments.** For streams, you take payment your way and make one call to give the customer access. For tickets and shop orders, Vabu's checkout takes M-Pesa and cards.
- **Use it all.** Login, payments and every product on one set of keys, with one customer across them.

Read [ways to use Vabu OS](https://docs.vabu.live/concepts/integration-modes.md) and [sign-in options](https://docs.vabu.live/concepts/sign-in-options.md).

## The products work together

A ticket sale earns fan points. A check-in earns more. A message brings people back. A stream reaches the people who could not come. Every interaction is an event your server can hear about, so one product feeds the next. See [how the products work together](https://docs.vabu.live/products/how-products-work-together.md).

## Start building

1. **[Get a test key](https://docs.vabu.live/get-started/environments-and-keys.md).** Test keys come with every tenant from the first minute.
2. **[Make your first request](https://docs.vabu.live/get-started/first-request.md).** Copy a snippet in curl, TypeScript, PHP, Python or Go.
3. **[Pick a product](https://docs.vabu.live/products/index.md).** Read what it does and which calls exist today.
4. **Streaming? Try the [Streams quickstart](https://docs.vabu.live/guides/streams/quickstart.md).** Create a live stream, give a customer access and play it in about twenty minutes.
5. **Switch to live keys** when your test run works. The [API reference](https://docs.vabu.live/api.md) lists every endpoint.

Features that are not in the API yet are listed on [What's coming](https://docs.vabu.live/whats-coming.md).