"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."

"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."

“It (Stream Chat) is another tool that has spared us from having to reinvent the wheel, reinvent the architecture while providing us the granular control, the scalability, the reliability and the analytics layer that we need to really free our engineers up to focus on the differentiated user experience.”

"Reliability was a major focus for us. disruptions impact therapist-client meetings significantly."

"We're very happy with Stream Chat, and we plan to expand the functionality to other areas of the platform, like our message board, which will allow us to be flexible and create a cohesive user experience as the product becomes more complex."

“Building out feed technology is quite a challenge. We made the mistake of trying to build it ourselves, and we were just stuck. From a feature perspective, we couldn’t build something as robust as what Stream can provide. I’m simply amazed at how certain features, such as ranking, work. Stream …

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

"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 write-based fan-out type of social graph because the messaging aspect user-to-users, artist-to-users was an important part of our specifications. Stream provides easy to use integrations for a lot of different frameworks including ruby."

"Stoked on what we are doing with @tschellenbach & Stream on @bandsintown. Great product these guys are building. They helped us build something extremely complicated that would have taken too many man hours otherwise.”

"Bandsintown turned to Stream to support the platform’s live chat functionality. “We needed to have engagement. In the industry of live streams, chat is a must-have."

"People were telling us, 'I'm ready to trade—I just need to ask one question or request another photo."

“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 …

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

“I’ve worked with a lot of technology solution vendors in my career, and the term ‘partner’ tends to be used loosely, but my team feels like we have a true partnership with Stream. Instead of just telling us a price and a plan, Stream is committed to understanding our business …