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SendBird Competitors: SendBird vs Alternatives
If you are looking for a SendBird competitor, there is a multitude of alternatives out there. With so many available options to choose from, it can be hard to decide which cloud communication platform will help you stand out among your competition. It is essential to determine wh…
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10 HIPAA Compliant Chat Apps – Live Chat, Text Messaging & Video
With the explosion of new technology in healthcare communications, there are many applications in the market that make communicating with patients easier, while also keeping their Protected Health Information (PHI) secure. While researching chat with PHI concerns in mind, I came …
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White-Label Chat for Cloud Messaging
Cloud messaging is a service that enables developers to send messages between servers and client applications. With cloud messaging, developers leverage the infrastructure of a reliable cloud messaging provider such as Stream to deliver messages and notifications to their platfor…
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A Guide to White-Label Chat
Read on if you find yourself in this position, and want to learn more about the space and options available. 👍 What Is White-Label Chat White-label chat is considered any chat solution provided by a chat vendor that doesn’t show the vendor’s logo, domain, or any other type of ve…
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Stream Chat vs. Twilio Chat
Chat and messaging are becoming ever-more critical for application success. When searching for a provider to enable in-app chat, you might compare Stream Chat with Twilio Chat. Twilio is a monster in the space of API-driven SMS support and email (through their acquisition of Send…
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A Guide to Developer Marketing in 2020
Initial Thoughts Stream provides Feeds, which allow developers to build event-driven applications similar to social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, in a matter of days versus months or years. Stream also provides Chat, a product that enables developers to…
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Review: SendBird vs. Stream
Chat and messaging are critical components for application success. When searching for a provider to enable in-app messaging, you might compare Stream Chat with SendBird. SendBird is a highly funded, feature-rich chat application that is priced as if they are the only provider in…
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What I Learned Researching Chat Provider Pricing
My comparison of the top live chat services and their pricing structures – Pubnub vs Pusher vs Layer vs Sendbird vs Stream Full disclosure: I’m the head of sales at Stream, and we (now not so recently) removed the beta tag from our new live chat API. After 4 years of providing hi…
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Product Comparison: Stream vs. Layer
Update: Layer has shut down their API. Read about how to migrate from Layer and read our own thoughts about it. Chat and messaging are critical components to application success. When searching for a provider to enable in-app chat, you might compare Chat by Stream with Layer’s ch…
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Product Comparison: Stream vs. PubNub
Chat and messaging are critical components for application success. When searching for a provider to enable in-app chat, you might compare Stream Chat with PubNub. PubNub is an enterprise-grade lower-level pub/sub solution (hence the name PubNub). In late 2019 they officially rel…
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National Real Estate Company Uses Stream Chat to Allow Agents to Communicate with Clients
About the “Real Estate Company” This market-leading real estate company has agents and facilities all across the United States. As one of the largest real estate franchises in terms of sales volume, the number of agents, and units sold they also have one of the largest risks in t…
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Pusher Chatkit Alternative: Stream vs. Pusher
When searching for a provider to enable in-app messaging, you might compare Chat by Stream with Pusher’s Chatkit.
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Using Feed Technology for Travel Use Cases
When we visit sites like Amazon, Netflix, or YouTube, we take for granted the fact these services have been exploring and learning our behavior for years. They know us well – they make relevant recommendations that are unique to the user, drawing us back to their sites time and t…
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Dubsmash Switches to Stream from an In-House Solution
About Dubsmash Dubsmash is a global entertainment platform that allows users to interact with the content they love. Their team is building the interactive video quote database of the future, allowing users around the world to share, lip-sync, and meme over pop culture content. W…
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Sketchfab Utilizes Stream’s Feed Technology to Increase Performance and Reliability
“From posting updates to commenting and more, Stream provided us with the most flexible and scalable solution for displaying all our user’s activities. The Stream team made implementing our news feed solution a collaborative experience and ultimately the right decision for us.” –…
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Activity Streams and News Feeds for Real-Time Use Cases
There are many feed use cases where it’s important to show updates in real-time. If a feed has thousands or even millions of followers, this can be pretty hard to do. Over the past months, our team has vastly improved the capacity of our real-time infrastructure, allowing you to:…
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Creating a Personalized Buying Experience
Remember when online shopping was a new phenomenon that seemed risky and impractical? I certainly do. Fast forward to present day. Not only are retail companies expected to have an online purchasing option (eCommerce), it seems as though in-person shopping is becoming a thing of …
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Using Feed Technology for Real Estate Use Cases
Product owners for online real estate services are facing new challenges in a market that is currently in a state of massive disruption. First time home buyers entering the market grew up with advanced technology, allowing everything to be at their fingertips. Buyers now expect t…
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Product Hunt Switched to Stream API from In-House Solution
“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.” – Andreas Klinger, CTO at Product Hunt About Product Hunt Product …
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Feeds – B2B show they’re not just for social
When most people think about feeds, they of think social apps like Twitter. Even at Stream, most of our example use cases and sample applications are centered around social. It’s no surprise, considering that Recode’s 2017 list of top 10 mobile apps include Facebook, Instagram, a…
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Algolia Review – A Hosted Search API Reviewed
Today we’re reviewing Algolia. This blog post is part of our review series where we uncover best-of-class SaaS solutions for developers. Reviewing other API services helps us come up with ideas for improving Stream, our API for building scalable and perisonalized feeds. You can t…
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Imgix Review – Image Processing as a Service Reviewed
_Today we’re reviewing Imgix. This blog post is part of our review series where we uncover best-of-class SaaS solutions for developers. Reviewing other API services helps us come up with ideas for improving Stream, our API for building scalable and personalized feeds. You can try…
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The Activity Streams and Personalization of Google Music
When products are built around feeds, the general goal is to provide users with functionality to share their thoughts, follow their interests and respond to content. With this functionality being user-centric, we wanted to offer some suggestions on the best practices for newsfeed…
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Global Citizen: A Community That Connects People
Global Citizen is a community that connects people who want to make an impact on the world’s biggest problems. Stream is providing the feed technology and hosting free of charge.