“Stream Chat got us up and running and professional-grade in almost no time. We could look and act big, even though Hovr was just getting out of the gates."

“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.”

“Very good, the support we got from the engineers at Stream was excellent, and the documentation is good. Where we did have questions or problems, we would get answers quickly and the online documentation would be updated shortly afterward to reflect the clarification. We had to implement our own abstraction …

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

"We are at half a million MAU, and our user base is spread across southeast Asia. The two biggest markets for us are Indonesia and Vietnam, and our user base is primarily young working adults and hiring managers, ranging from millennials to Gen Z; chat is a very native interaction …

"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."

"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 …

“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."

"We help care plan companies, like Blue Cross Blue Shield, manage their member bases."

"We evaluated three or four competitors against our must-have criteria and telehealth security standards, including Sendbird."

"We knew what we needed to do immediately, but we also knew what we were going to try to do in the future — we wanted to make sure we would have the ability to make channels, and customize UI, Interactions like sharing files, emojis, link parsing, add mentions, and …

"Previously, we didn't have a chat interface inside our app, Communication happened on WhatsApp, and we couldn't monitor the content or protect our customers' privacy."

"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're centralizing information for students and giving them a full view of campus life. But we're also creating space for real social interaction—like actually meeting people, forming connections, and building community."