"The main issue we had was that our server with Sendbird was located in Japan while our users were located in the UK. We experienced a lot of latency loading the chat and sending new messages. Our original plan was to migrate to another Sendbird server in Europe, but they …

“Our community is by far the number one thing that differentiates us from our competition, Stream helps make Benzinga an actual community. Whether it’s discussing the hot stock of the day, responding to technical questions, or encouraging users to attend our daily virtual happy hours, Stream Chat is an integral …

"We are just testing the waters at this time. We will have to consider upgrading our plan as we continue to monitor performance. The flexibility of Stream's pricing has allowed us to focus on scaling confidently without worrying that we will be locked into a plan we've outgrown."

“The Stream API just works, we appreciate the fact that we simply don’t have to worry about it. It’s simple for us to add new notifications and it scales with us. This gives us time to focus on other priorities.”

“Most transport companies in Europe connect to our product daily. We cannot afford downtime. The exchange of freight can happen in seconds. It was important that our chat solution could handle that."

"Teamworks is the operating system for sports. We started out with messaging and calendar functionalities and expanded to forms after that, but we've moved into nutrition, social media, and performance management. Just about everybody in a professional sports organization will interact with Teamworks at some point in their day. If …

"A challenge we faced was syncing messages between all of the different devices users may have. We leveraged Firebase and were able to solve that problem. It solved the original needs, but we ran into other challenges as our audience grew. At that moment, we had two options: one, we …

“We were getting positive signs from Stream, and that’s really how we landed on choosing their product.”

"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 …

“Simple and elegant solutions like Stream Chat create a sense of community and togetherness during virtual events."

"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."

"Ajaib previously had an in-house activity feed structure. However, user engagement was low, and we decided to retire the feature for that reason as well as to redistribute the amount of resources that were required to maintain it."

“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.”

“We are very, very happy with how fast it was to get a full-featured chat in place on our site through Stream. We have never seen that kind of turnaround time before. Stream saved us time and effort and helped us start making a lot of forward movement on our …

"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 …