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Stream Achieves DPF Certification

We are thrilled to announce that Stream has successfully achieved Data Privacy Framework certification, meeting its rigorous requirements and marking a significant milestone in our commitment to customer data privacy and security worldwide. A DPF is a fundamental aspect of modern data management, providing a structured approach to safeguarding personal information and ensuring compliance with

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A Fireside Chat with Stream and Jigsaw Dating at GDI New York

Jack Chamberlain, Engineering Manager at Jigsaw Dating and Kenzie Wilson, Field & Event Marketing Manager at Stream discuss the limiting factors of leveraging real-time infrastructure to build chat vs. an API at GDI New York 2024. During the thought-provoking fireside chat that explore the limitations of leveraging a real-time infrastructure solution to build in-app chat

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How to Build a Product First Mindset in 2024: The Product Folks Insurjo '24 Recap

In the dynamic world of product management, success hinges not only on innovative ideas and market understanding but also on the adoption of a strategic mindset. To excel in this role, it's crucial to embrace a set of guiding principles that steer decision-making, problem-solving, and overall approach. Stream's Chief Product Officer Marcelino Moreno introduced his

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Elevating Experiences: Stream's Roadmap for 2023 & 2024

When Tommaso and I started Stream, we couldn't have imagined the growth we've seen over the last few years. Some of the world's largest apps now use our APIs and SDKs. Global brands like TaskRabbit, Hopin, IBM, SoundCloud, Adobe, Healthline, and Gojek rely on Stream. Patreon just launched a beautiful new community experience. We have

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Stream Hackathon: Connecting the World Through Code

Connecting the World Through Code is a two-week hackathon that allows developers to create whatever their heart desires around communication and connection. It is an opportunity for developers to showcase their creativity by building innovative apps or websites using Stream's Chat and Video APIs. Developers are encouraged to use whatever services they like. These can

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Reimagining Dating App UX: A Fireside Chat with Stream and Feeld at GDI London

In September 2023, Stream sponsored GDI London and held a fireside chat with Enterprise chat customer and dating app company Feeld at the event. This is the transcription of the interview. EM: Hello, everyone! My name is Elaine McGlaughlin (EM). I'm a customer success manager at Stream, the fastest-growing global chat API company. We power

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Video API Update: New React Native SDK, Performance Improvements, & More!

Since the initial release of our Video & Audio API, we've been working to improve the API and add new features and new frontend SDKs. We're excited to share an update with major enhancements, and more coming soon. In addition to iOS, Android, React, and Flutter, we've now released SDK support for React Native and

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Stream's Commitment to Data Portability

As an API company at the forefront of the industry, these issues are not new to us. We understand the importance of data ownership and the challenges users face when migrating from one platform to another. Sadly, it is all too common for service providers to exploit their position as data custodians, making it needlessly

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GetSocial is Shutting Down: Stream Offers Activity Feed Replacement

GetSocial has announced its impending closure, and we understand that this news may have left you searching for a new activity feed solution to meet your business needs. We at Stream would like to warmly welcome you and offer our robust and reliable activity feed API and SDKs as a compelling alternative. We assure you

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From the Desk of the CPO: 2023 Product Roadmap

In 2022, we set a record for the number of new customers we get to serve, and I want to express my sincere gratitude for your trust in us. We are thrilled with our progress thus far, and it motivates us to continue growing and enhancing our products and services to support the success of

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Stream Chat Android: v6 Beta Announcement

Even with the new code that comes with our releases, you don't have to worry about massive breaking changes that disrupt your workflow. In fact, we have a great deprecation convention where we give you weeks, sometimes even months, to migrate your codebase to new ways of using our API and components. There are some

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70% of Apps Double User Engagement With Stream

Anecdotally, we know chat has a profound impact on essential app metrics. Whether through interviewing customers for case study stories or gathering feedback from developers experimenting with Stream's chat APIs and SDKs for their passion projects, messaging functionality can keep users in an app for longer, increase user engagement, satisfaction, retention, and more. Stream powers

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Announcing Stream Chat's Jetpack Compose SDK

Stream provides chat SDKs for many different platforms, and today we're excited to add another important entry to the list: Jetpack Compose! If you want to jump straight into trying the new SDK, the best place to start is the Jetpack Compose Chat Tutorial. Jetpack Compose is a brand new, modern UI toolkit by

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Stream CEO & CTO Named Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2021 Mountain Desert Region Award Finalists

Entrepreneurs play a vital role in transforming our lives by disrupting entire industries and reinventing economies. We couldn't be happier for Thierry Schellenbach, co-founder and CEO of Stream, and Tommaso Barbugli, co-founder and CTO, to be recognized as finalists for the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2021 Mountain Desert Region Award. As the world's most prestigious

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Stream Attains SOC2 Type II and ISO 27001 Compliance

Stream is proud to announce the successful completion of its SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits, achieving compliance with the organizations' thorough security standards. The certifications showcase Stream's dedication to providing a highly secure in-app chat solution to enterprise customers, in addition to the company's existing HIPAA and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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Stream Maker Account: Free APIs for Builders & Early-Stage Teams

When Stream started in 2015, it was just two developers with a shoestring budget, shipping code and learning from early users. Free tiers and startup-friendly plans made it possible to get off the ground. The Maker Account carries that same spirit forward. It gives qualifying teams free access to Stream's APIs, including Chat (2,000 MAU/month), Activity

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Stream Announces $38 Million Series B Funding

Today, I'm excited to announce that Stream has closed its $38 million Series B funding round, led by Felicis Ventures' Aydin Senkut with participation from Series A lead investor GGV Capital and 01 Advisors. This round follows just six months after our $15 million Series A in August, bringing total financing to $53 million. Stream

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Announcing Flutter SDK 1.0.0 Beta

At Stream, we are always trying to find new ways to help developers build great apps in as little time as possible. That's why today, we are thrilled to announce the release of our new Flutter Chat SDK and not one but two new Stream Flutter packages . Our goal with this release is to

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Build Viking Winners

Winners Announcement Over the last week, Stream participated and hosted two activities as part of the Flutter Vikings conference. Our first activity, a codelab, was focused on our Flutter SDK and tailored to new Stream users. If you'd like to add interactive chat to your app, I recommend you check this out. The second

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Stream Flutter Vikings

Welcome Flutter developers! We are thrilled to help bring Flutter Vikings to everyone and help developers share and learn new things. To celebrate, we are announcing Build Viking, a week-long Flutter hackathon sponsored by Stream. What is Build Viking Build Viking is a week-long Flutter hackathon which gives developers the freedom to create whatever

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Stream Achieves SOC 2 Compliance

Stream is seeing unprecedented growth within the cloud-offering ecosystem and now serves over a billion end users. As the leading provider of API-driven Activity Feeds and Chat, our team is excited to announce we have completed our SOC 2 Type I audit with the help of Secureframe. What is SOC 2? SOC 2 is one

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Announcing Our $15M Series A Funding

Today, I'm excited to announce that Stream has raised a $15M Series A round from GGV Capital and Dick Costolo (Ex Twitter CEO, now 01 Advisors). We are very grateful to our early investors and customers who took a chance on our team and technology. Many of you started using Stream when the engineering team

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New Feature Announcement: Presend Message Hooks

Are you looking to have more control over moderation? Presend Message Hooks provides you with access to either discard or rewrite messages when they don't meet your content guidelines. This feature works similarly to regular webhooks; however, the difference is that your handler gets called before the message is saved to the channel, allowing you

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New Chat Feature: Query Members

Secure & Encrypted Build the most secure and HIPAA-compliant chat experience for your medical chat app. Privacy, security and reliability are our focus and promise. Stream Chat Continues to Support Massive Scale with a New Feature: Query Members Stream's Chat product has rolled out a new feature to further support channels with large numbers of

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Stream in 2020

2019 has been an exciting year for Stream. The team doubled, our customers doubled, and we launched our second product - Stream Chat. It's been great to see how well our chat product has been received and how quickly it has grown. This would not have been possible without the trust and support of our

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Thoughts on Layer's API Shutdown

Over the past days, we've had customers inform us that Layer is shutting down. These disgruntled Layer customers are coming over to Stream. The surprising announcement of the shutdown of their API on October 30th and comes after we did a comprehensive post about chat pricing. However, as a developer, it annoys me to see

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Stream Roadmap - May 2019

It's been an exciting period for Stream with the launch of Chat and the activity feed components for iOS/Swift. Here's what's next on the roadmap: AI-powered moderation for chat and activity feeds Android native for activity feeds Android & iOS native for chat Push for activity feeds Follow/Following counts on activity feeds Reaction counts for

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Stream and GDPR

As an organization who has customers located within the European Union (EU), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important topic for us here at Stream. The GDPR is a regulation by which the European government has intended to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the EU (source). Companies must be

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Looking Forward to What's Coming from Stream in 2018

Looking Back 2017 wrapped up with the launch of Stream V2 and multi-region support. The new version of our API uses Go, RocksDB and Raft to power the feeds for over 300 million users. V2 represents our largest improvement in performance so far. Switching from Cassandra to RocksDB was a major step forward for Stream. It's

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Stream & Go: News Feeds for Over 300 Million End Users

Stream is an API that enables developers to build news feeds and activity streams (try the API). We are used by over 500 companies and power the feeds of more than 300 million end users. Companies such as Product Hunt, Under Armour, Powerschool, Bandsintown, Dubsmash, Compass and Fabric (Google) rely on Stream to power their

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Announcing Stream 2.0 and Multi-Region Support

We're very excited to announce Stream 2.0 and complete multi-region support! The new version is built on Google's Go programming language, as opposed to Python. However, it's important to note that Python is still used to power the machine learning for Stream's personalized feeds. We believe this will increase reliability, scalability and overall platform performance.

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Stream raises $3 Million from Arthur Ventures

We are excited to announce that Stream has raised $3 million from Arthur Ventures with participation from Galvanize, Techstars, and others. This puts Stream's total funding at $4.75 million. Stream will use this investment to expand its team and accelerate product development. Stream (getstream.io) is an API for building, scaling and personalizing feeds. Over 500 companies

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Stream in 2017

Tommaso and I started Stream a little over 2 years ago. It's been a crazy ride, from our first customer to joining Techstars in NYC. Our first funding round was a whirlwind, but we now have offices in both Boulder, Colorado and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and we couldn't be happier as a team. Today over

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Introducing Ranked Feeds

We want to share the first Beta release of Ranked Feed. Ranked Feeds allows you to take control over how your feeds are sorted and move past the simple chronological view. Ranked feeds can help improve engagement with the feed.

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Stream Raises $1.75M Seed Round

Stream is excited to announce that we have raised $1.75m from Brad Feld/FGAngels, Techstars Ventures, Tahoma Ventures, Social Starts, Galvanize, Dharmesh Shah, Wayne Chang, Jud Valeski, Kyle Wild, James Powell and others.

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Stream Beta & Techstars NY

We are excited to announce that Stream is participating in Techstars NY.

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Call For Contributors: Stream-Framework 1.1

We have released Stream Framework 1.1 - and we are looking for your contributions!

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How Stream's Entry Plan Compares to In-House Solutions

Stream's hosted newsfeed API gives you several advantages over an in-house solution.

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Introducing the Stream Framework

Introducing version 1.0.0 of the Stream Framework!

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Stream Massive Update Round

Just a couple of days ago we finished our first round of improvements to GetStream.

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