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

"We put that up on Hackernews, and within a few hours, it went to number one. The site started crashing because we had public Dropbox links. The head of engineering for Dropbox happened to look at the Hackernews post and said that they’d upgrade us to the maximum pro plan …

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

"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."

"I am very familiar with everything that goes into building chat, When I started ShiftFlow, I knew right away — for a small team, building chat in-house is almost never a good call."

“As time went by and our use cases got more advanced, we started chatting with the team [at Stream] to get answers. We feel that we established a good relationship with the team, and with time, we moved between the tiers toward a personalized feed solution. For a few weeks, …

"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."

"We built a very effective text-only chat, but because it lacked customization, we received feedback from users that they would instead use off-platform messengers that had the features they wanted."

"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 …

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

"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."

“We expect this event to really take off, and the chat functionality will certainly be utilized to drive engagement.”

“Youth will have the opportunity to log in during the live show, and we’ll specifically ask viewers to use the chat to participate in contests, ask questions, and win prizes. We anticipate some very large viewership numbers for this event and a lot of activity in the chat box.”