"Stream Chat allows us to focus on building Benzinga Pro and supporting our community, not the chat technology powering it.”

"Anything that is not free when you're a super early stage start-up is a little daunting. But when you think about the cost of building something from the ground up—the amount of development hours, research, and maintenance—I think our price point completely makes sense, and it's (chat) pretty integral to …

"When you're talking about sports, you have peak seasons, We've just come out of our peak season with American football in the fall. We spend all year preparing for that boomerang curve of user engagement."

"There was no shared picture. You couldn't always reach the right person at the right time, and messages were often missed or repeated."

"Initially, I planned to implement WebSocket communication manually using Laravel on the backend and React Native on the frontend, However, after assessing the time investment required to learn, integrate, and scale such a solution, it became clear that a more efficient approach was necessary."

"There was a significant delay between sending a message and receiving it. With people so accustomed to instant messaging, we got a lot of comments on that."

"The high-quality documentation was really good, but being able to spin up a working version locally was super important. I could validate what this integration would actually feel like for the team."

"We were able to create multiple environments for testing before release. The dashboard observability was a huge help."

"You've been a great partner. That's why we've stayed with you for three years."

"We've leveraged Stream to provide innovative audience engagement via chat, with custom reactions, verified status indicators, and user metadata to create immersive experiences. We wrapped all the features of Stream into a simple module that can be dropped onto a page to add robust chat functionality to any experience in …

"Stream's React Native SDK gives us the whole UI—and building that in-house is a nightmare. We also have offline support with the React Native SDK, which we could never build ourselves."

"When it came time to build activity streams that showed the actions that millions of global citizens are taking to end extreme poverty, adopting stream was a no-brainer. In a few, short development sprints we were able to deliver a solution that scaled to support our large user community in …

"Stream came highly recommended by our investors. We needed something reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly—and Stream checked all the boxes."

"We realized that we, as Checkatrade, weren't doing enough to connect consumers and tradespeople, Providing in-app chat encourages both consumers and tradespeople to use just one communication method, reducing this common pain point."

“We were looking for a chat API partner who shared our values of creative iteration and an entrepreneurial spirit. Stream has a startup mentality but also has a good, trustworthy foundation.”