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Product Comparison: Social+ vs. Stream Activity Feeds
Activity feeds are a cornerstone of modern apps, driving user engagement through personalized, real-time updates. Whether you're building a social platform, e-commerce app, or collaborative team tool, choosing the right solution for activity feeds can significantly impact your application's scalability, performance, and development speed. Stream and Social.plus (formerly Amity) both offer robust activity feed functionality,
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Exploring the Power and Potential of Stream’s Feeds API
In the world of real-time content experiences, user engagement, community, and retention metrics reign supreme. Fortunately, you can elevate your UX and improve KPIs that mean the most to your app with Stream's Activity Feed API and SDKs. Our reusable components are easy to integrate, require little to no maintenance, and, most importantly, can scale
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Social.plus Alternatives – Top 9 Competitors Compared
From social platforms to marketplaces, many apps rely on real-time engagement to build loyalty. Social.plus (formerly Amity) positions itself as an all-in-one solution for chat, video, and activity feeds, making it a contender for social-driven apps, community platforms, and engagement-heavy products. But Social.plus isn't the only option. A range of competitors offer similar functionality, often
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Firebase Alternative: Building Chat With Firebase vs. Stream
We have recently noticed an influx of individuals searching for alternatives to building chat messaging applications on Firebase. It's important to note that Firebase is a multi-use tool for developers to build just about anything quickly, but does not take into account the cost when an application starts to scale in terms of users. In
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Ably Alternatives – Comparing the Top 9 Competitors
If you're evaluating Ably's chat product for your app, you're likely looking for a reliable way to deliver real-time conversations with low latency and high uptime. Ably's infrastructure-first approach offers developers the tools to build custom chat experiences from the ground up, backed by a globally distributed network. But Ably isn't the only option. Depending
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Build vs. Buy Moderation: The Ultimate Decision Guide for Trust & Safety
Content moderation is the invisible infrastructure of the web. Every message sent, image uploaded, livestream broadcast, and marketplace listing posted passes through moderation systems that determine whether it reaches its intended audience. Get it right, and your platform becomes a thriving community where users feel safe to connect, transact, and create. Get it wrong, and
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Release: Editable LLM Prompts
At Stream, we know moderation is critical for building safe, thriving communities. With millions of messages flowing through apps powered by Stream, companies need more than just static rules. They need flexibility, speed, and full control. That's why we're excited to announce the release of AI Text Harm Detection (LLM). This new feature gives teams
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TalkJS Alternatives – Comparing the Top 7 Competitors
TalkJS has carved out a niche in the chat API space by focusing on simplicity. Its ready-to-use UI and straightforward setup make it appealing for teams that want to add in-app messaging without sinking months into development. Still, speed isn't the only factor when choosing a messaging provider. The right platform should align with your
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Content Moderation at Scale: Handling Millions of Messages Without Sacrificing UX
In 2021, Twitch streamers, mainly Black and LGBTQ+, were hit with a wave of "hate raids." These automated bot swarms dumped dozens of identical slurs and threats into chat rooms in bursts that lasted seconds. The median raid spewed ~48 messages in <16 s. 222 bots hit one channel at once. In the fallout, creators organised
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Alpha Release: Activity Feeds v3
Apps use Stream's Activity Feeds API with hundreds to millions of users. Today, we're excited to share the third iteration of our Feeds API, Feeds v3, which builds on our scalability and expands our Activity Feeds API to include popular community features like for-you feeds, client-side SDKs, comments, activity expiration, and more—all while being 30%
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Feature Announcement: Moderation Rule Builder
Moderating user-generated content at scale is difficult, especially as harmful behavior patterns evolve. Rule Builder provides a new way to define complex moderation logic without writing a single line of code. What is Rule Builder? Rule Builder is a new dashboard feature within Stream's AI Moderation platform that lets you: Define moderation rules based on
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MirrorFly Alternatives – Comparing the Top 8 Competitors
If you're building real-time communication into your app, you've likely come across MirrorFly. It's one of the few platforms offering both cloud and self-hosted SDKs for chat, voice and video, and activity feeds, making it a popular choice for teams with strict compliance, branding, or infrastructure requirements. But finding the right communication provider isn't easy.
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CometChat Alternatives – Comparing the Top 10 Competitors
If you're building in-app chat, video, or moderation, you've likely come across CometChat. It's one of the more well-known in-app feature SDK providers, and for good reason. But choosing the right real-time communication platform for your app isn't easy. With dozens of APIs promising fast integration and feature-rich toolkits, it can be challenging to pinpoint
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Hive Moderation Alternatives – Top 8 Competitors Compared
Hive Moderation is one of several platforms that help apps detect and filter user-generated content across text, image, and video. It's often used in social, marketplace, dating, and gaming apps to flag nudity, hate speech, spam, and other forms of unwanted content. While Hive offers a wide range of moderation capabilities, it's not always the
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Stream Changelog
Follow along with our weekly product updates for Stream Chat, Feeds, Video, and Moderation. Updates — December 1st, 2025 Chat Android Add filter_tags to Channel Add option to hide history before given date when adding members to a channel Add StatePluginConfig.isAutomaticSyncOnReconnectEnabled for configuring the automatic sync process on connect/reconnect Bug fixes and full changelog React Native Add support for ephemeral channels
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2025 Product Roadmap: The Year of AI
It's amazing to see large apps like Nextdoor, Strava, Match Group, and Patreon, as well as established brands like IBM and Adobe, rely on Stream to power their apps. Over one billion end users rely on Stream. Some of the largest apps have 100M to 250M users. We're currently growing our team faster than ever
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WebRTC vs WebSockets: What Are the Differences?
From gaming to messaging and video conferencing, real-time communication is at the forefront of most apps. WebRTC and WebSockets are among the standout real-time technologies today. They enable instant, two-way information exchange to facilitate online interactions and make communication more efficient. While they both offer powerful communication features, they have important differences. By understanding their
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MariaDB vs MySQL: How Do These Databases Differ?
Choosing between MariaDB and MySQL can be tough. MariaDB's origins as a fork of MySQL bring so many surface-level similarities that it can feel like picking a favorite identical twin based on their looks. If you're working on a small-scale project, you might decide based on your love of open source or a desire to
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Multilingual Content Moderation with LLMs
Content warning: This article contains some NSFW Hungarian and Korean words and phrases. Did you know for the sitcom Mork and Mindy, the production team needed censors who knew four languages just to keep up with Robin Williams' sneaky swearing attempts? That was in the seventies, but today’s content moderators have the same problem, writ
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Stream Releases VP9 SVC Codec for Enhanced Video Call Efficiency
At Stream, we’re dedicated to making video calls smooth and efficient for everyone, especially those using older devices or lower-powered CPUs. To this end, we’re excited to announce that the VP9 SVC codec is now available for Stream Video users on JavaScript, React, and React Native SDKs. This addition delivers significant bandwidth and performance optimizations,
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Understanding the Impact of the Digital Services Act (DSA) Requirements on Content Moderation
The Digital Services Act (DSA) is set to reshape the landscape of content moderation for digital platforms operating within the European Union (EU). As compliance becomes mandatory starting February 2024, understanding what this means for platforms of all sizes is essential. This article will break down the DSA's requirements, who needs to comply, potential penalties,
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October Monthly Release Round-Up
As this month comes to a close, we thought we'd recap all of the exciting new features and improvements we made across Stream Video and Moderation. Introducing the VP9 SVC Codec 🎥 We're excited to announce that VP9 SVC is now available in our JavaScript, React, and React Native SDKs. With this advanced codec, users can experience significant improvements in video reliability and performance, including
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September Monthly Release Round-Up
As September comes to a close, we thought we'd recap all of the exciting new features and improvements we made across Stream Video, Chat, Feeds, and Moderation this month. Improved Video Calling & Usage-by-Bandwidth Tracking in the Dashboard 🎥 Thanks to Dynascale, Stream automatically detects the displayed video resolution and adjusts based on CPU and
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Migrating from Meta Workplace to Stream Chat and Video
Meta Workplace, a collaborative platform used by many companies, is set to be discontinued in August 2025. This announcement has significant implications for businesses that have built products or services around the Workplace platform, particularly those leveraging its video component. The sunsetting of Meta Workplace presents a challenge for companies that have integrated this platform
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Guide to Getting Started with Stream
In this short tutorial, we will examine the steps involved in creating your first application on Stream. We will create a new account, select a product and API key, and learn the basics of your first API call. Creating a New Account On Stream, a single account gives you access to all products, Chat, Activity
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Daily.co Video SDK vs. Stream Video
You are considering adding video and audio capabilities to your app, ready to bring new levels of engagement and retention to your end users. But building these powerful features is hard. And if you make a mistake, you will lose end users quicker than a teenager can finish a bag of potato chips. When adding
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Vonage Video API vs. Stream Video
It is essential to ensure that the video capabilities added to your product function as expected by your end users. Otherwise, you risk alienating your users instead of engaging them. Both Vonage and Stream provide Video SDKs. Let’s compare these two and see how well each can deliver your desired video functionality. But first, we’ll
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Exyte Chat vs. Stream Chat
Exyte Chat is an open-source library provided by Exyte. Exyte is a software development agency with a remote team headquartered in New York and Dubai. They offer their iOS Chat library for you to integrate into your codebase on your own as a showcase of what their team can do for you. It's an awesome
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100ms vs. Stream Video
Adding video and audio capabilities to your app has the potential to skyrocket user engagement and retention metrics. But, get the UX of this powerful interactivity solution wrong, and you risk tanking those KPIs along with your brand’s reputation. When comparing Video SDKs, 100ms and Stream Video both provide a Video SDK. Let's explore how
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Zoom Video SDK vs. Stream Video
In our recent Twilio Alternatives post, we made some claims about Zoom being easy to integrate. However, customization with the Zoom Video SDK is very limited. Let's look into that claim some more to see how we think Zoom Video SDK compares to Stream Video. We will also look at the Beta Zoom Video SDK
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Introducing Stream's Campaigns API
We at Stream are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Campaigns API! Sending messages to a large group of users or channels and personalizing those messages with rich templating, attachments, and custom data is now easier for developers and businesses than ever before. For Campaigns with under 1,000 users, our API enables you
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Think Twice: What to Consider Before Building Chat with RTI
Fellow developers, gather around as we delve into the treacherous terrain of chat development using real-time infrastructure, a land filled with landmines, caveats, and countless ways to go over budget without realizing before it is too late. Picture this: you're navigating through a labyrinth of code, grappling with timelines tighter than your favorite pair of
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Introducing Threads 2.0
Threads are a popular feature among mainstream chat applications and a great way to focus the conversation without cluttering up a user’s main feed and channel. Apps like Discord and Slack have set the bar regarding user experience and the features or behavior people expect when using threads. Today, Stream is releasing several improvements to
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Top 5 Alternatives to Twilio Programmable Video
Twilio Programmable Video is a WebRTC-based API for quickly adding real-time communication capabilities to your mobile and web applications. If you are currently using Twilio Programmable Video, you are likely aware of the company’s plan to sunset this product by the end of 2024. With the need to find a replacement for this in-app video
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Twilio Chat, Messaging, & Conversations API vs. Stream Chat
Twilio has recently removed its chat API and video live streaming API. However, the company still offers its Conversations API, mostly intended for omnichannel customer support. Let's take a closer look at how Stream Chat stacks up to Twilio's current offerings. Twilio Provides chat primarily for a customer support use case. The focus is on
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10 New Video & Audio Releases: New Livestream UI Components, Calling Performance Enhancements, SwiftUI Example Project, & More
With new releases stacking up across our frontend SDKs and central platform infrastructure, there’s never been a better time to start building with Video & Audio from Stream. In just the last few weeks, our engineering teams have shipped the 10 updates you see below, with plenty more on the way. Highlights include new live
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Agora Alternatives - Agora Video vs. Competitors
In this comprehensive comparison, we delve into the advantages and disadvantages of Agora and its competitors for video calling, live streaming, and open-source solutions. Get started! Activate your free Stream account today and start prototyping with video. Whether you're a developer building real-time features into your app or a business evaluating communication platforms, this in-depth
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Enhance Patient Care: Combine the Nylas Calendar and Stream Chat APIs
Integrating chat functionality and robust scheduling capabilities can enhance the user experience of your telemedicine app. In this article, we will explore the power of combining the Nylas Calendar API with the Stream Chat API to showcase the use case of patients and care providers interacting using our products. By leveraging the unique qualities of
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Top 5 Edge Computing Benefits for Your Organization
Earlier this year, surgeons at the OLV Hospital in Belgium performed a successful partial nephrectomy on a patient with early-stage kidney cancer. But this wasn't just any surgery; this was the first-ever AI-powered, robot-assisted surgery. The surgery had been in the works for a while, but the surgeons from Orsi Academy kept running into a
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A Beginner’s Guide to Edge Computing
How can edge computing improve your next project plan? IDC has identified over 150 use cases for edge computing across industries. Edge computing is a distributed framework that puts computer processing closer to the data source — like sensors, IoT (internet of things) devices, or servers. By keeping the processor right next to the action,
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6 Best Automated Tools for API Testing
There is a wide variety of testing tools available with unique features and capabilities, including a handful of different types of API protocols. It's worth noting that API testing software often can't test all API protocols, so we've noted which protocols each tool tests in the descriptions below. Let's look at six of the best
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Product Manager’s Guide to API Integrations
What Is an API Integration? An API integration connects two or more applications or systems together in a manner that allows them to exchange data. Similar to how a bank teller allows you to deposit or withdraw money from a physical bank branch, an API integration allows you to use the data or server resources
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Content Moderators: What They Do & Why They Are Needed
One way to do that is to create an online community that is safe, supportive, and enjoyable for everyone. A designated content moderator can reduce the risk harmful content poses. Content moderators can help keep your users coming back because they'll trust that your platform is safe and inclusive. Moderators are trained to effectively search
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How Dating App Algorithms Work and How To Choose One for Your App
Everyone goes about dating in different ways. Yet dating app algorithms are designed to predict romantic attraction. So, how does the algorithm decide who to pair up? Just like any algorithm, a dating app's algorithm tells your app the rules for decision-making. It's the set of instructions the app uses to find and sort potential
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3 API Protocol Types: Their Differences and When To Use Each
APIs are instrumental in getting these apps to talk to each other within a connected, integrated infrastructure. An API (Application Programming Interface) is a structured method by which apps communicate. But, not all APIs are made equal. There are four major types of web API, which commonly use three types of API protocols. Each of
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What Is API Security? 8 API Security Best Practices
In addition to names and contact details, the stolen information also included passport and Medicare data. The company attributed the data breach to a sophisticated cyberattack, but further investigation reports revealed that Optus used an API that "did not require authorisation or authentication." In hindsight, anyone could have used that API endpoint to access those
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In-App Chat vs. SMS: What’s the Difference?
But what's the best way to get in touch with them? We'll cover the difference between chat and SMS, their use cases, benefits, and limitations of each to help you decide which method of user outreach is right for your app. What is SMS? Short message service (SMS) are text messages that can be up
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Chat Engagement: What It Is, How to Measure It, and How to Increase It
Now you just sit back, relax, and watch as conversions rise and chat engagement goes up! Just kidding. We all know it's not that simple. To increase chat engagement and impact your bottom line, you need to leverage the right chat techniques. Whether you use in-app chat for customer support or as a way for
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7 Engaging Social Media App Features That Keep Users Active
The features you choose can play a huge role in user retention and loyalty. If your app doesn't let a user do what they want to do, they're less likely to keep using it. By exploring and researching social media app features that increase engagement, you can get a better idea of what your users
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How To Build a Social Media App: Types, Features, Monetization
Case in point: users began leaving Twitter quickly after Elon Musk purchased the site in October 2022. Twitter competitor Mastodon gained 10,801 users the day after Musk took over. People leave social media apps for many reasons, such as a lack of trust in leadership, to improve mental health, or because of political alignment. Many
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Communications APIs: What Are They and Which One Could Work for You
Introducing in-app communication to your software product can help you increase engagement and retain customers. But building such a feature from scratch is a resource-intensive task. By using an API for communications, you gain access to pre-built and customizable features instantly. There are many APIs out there — learning about their features, pricing, and user
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5 Winning Social Media Business Models + Examples
Clubhouse was an invite-only, iOS-only app where users could join audio chat rooms around industry in-groups, listen to famous speakers, and raise their metaphorical hands to join in the discussion. An invite was a symbol of social status. Less than three years later, it's no more than a niche app that's been passed over in
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6 Types of Social Media Apps To Build (With Examples)
But with the right approach, smaller apps can come in and take some of the market share from the bigger guys. The social media app space is constantly evolving and growing, offering many opportunities for companies that want to build a social media app product. There's a right social media app type for your business
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Top 5 Fintech Business Models: Why They Work and Successful Examples
"Fintechs are popular, yet few are profitable," opined Capgemini's World Fintech Report 2021. Every financial technology company needs to make money and a sound business model is the fulcrum upon which a fintech company can scale. These five fintech business models can help you choose the best way to monetize your fintech offering. 1. Recurring
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6 Dating App Features Your Application Needs to Have
In the late 1600s, the first personal ads were printed in a newspaper and released into the world. Fast forward a few centuries, and today we use online dating to do the very same thing. Unlike newspapers, apps provide us with more dating options. They allow us to be more selective about our dates, to
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How To Build a Fintech App: Types, Cost, Features, and More
Fintech continues to reshape how people manage, move, and grow their money, driven by changing consumer expectations and rapid advances in digital infrastructure. If you're looking to build a fintech application, now is the time to define your niche, plan your features, and take advantage of APIs that accelerate development. In this guide, we outline
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Chat & Messaging Protocols: What Are They & How to Choose the Best One
No matter where you are in the world, you can use devices and software that enable real-time communication. It feels so easy and simple! Yet how these messages are exchanged is a bit more complex than hitting the send button. Relaying messages from one part of the world to another is possible in part thanks
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What Your Roadmap Is Missing: The Three Hidden Costs of In-House Development
But, there are three major unexpected costs of choosing to shoulder the entire engineering process in-house. If your team is weary of integrating out-of-the-box components, learn what it’s costing you below. 1. Competitive Advantage An average of 1,042 new apps are added to the Apple app store and over 3,000 to the Google Play store
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7 Essential Fintech App Features to Add Value to Your App
As of 2025, there are over 30,000 fintech startup companies globally, compared to just over 12,000 startups in 2018. The fintech market is expected to reach nearly $700 billion by 2030. In this saturated market, it can be challenging to stand out. The features you add to your app can help, but you have to
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6 Benefits of Adding Chat to Your eCommerce Marketplace
Many sites are still using outdated communication channels like phone or email. But consumers want a live chat option. According to a report by Kayako, many consumers would spend as much as $500 extra per month with companies that provide easy live chat experiences. And in the same report, consumers said they would more likely
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7 Practices to Increase In-App Conversions
In 2022 the install-to-purchase conversion rate for non-gaming apps was 5.5%, while for gaming apps, it was just 2.6%. What counts as a conversion will vary depending on your app's functionality. But in general, in-app conversions are events or actions a user takes in the app, such as completing a purchase, upgrading their account, or
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Top 7 Most Secure Video Calling Apps
But as the video calling app market becomes more saturated, knowledge is power. Keeping conversations private and data safe and secure is top of mind for most users. Knowing the risks of unsafe video calling, the best security features to look for, and having a few trusted options to choose from can help you call
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Live Streaming in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Teachers
If you're currently struggling with hosting virtual classes for students, you're not alone. Many teachers and students are frustrated with online learning. In a McKinsey survey, 83% of U.S.-based teachers rated online learning a six or below out of 10 compared to real-life classes. Fifty-eight percent of teachers gave it a four or lower. However,
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How To Build a Fintech App in 8 Steps
According to CB Insights 2021 State of Venture Report, venture capital investments reached a record high of more than $600 billion last year. And venture capital investors didn't just make more investments in 2021 than they did in 2020; they also gave each recipient more capital. But not every industry received equal funding. Financial technology
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The Product Manager’s Guide To Building a Dating App
Today, over 300 million people use dating apps, with about 20 million of those people paying for premium features. But how do you grab a slice of this competitive and fast-growing market that is set to reach over $8.4 billion in annual revenue by 2024? The key is differentiating your app from what's currently on
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6 Unique Dating App Ideas to Stand Out in a Crowded Market
A lot of dating apps on the market, like Tinder or Hinge, are too general and casual for serious singles to be able to find "The One." They don't appeal to a specific demographic, which makes it hard for people who know exactly what they want to make a meaningful connection. You can stand out
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How To Create a Delivery App (And the 7 Features You Must Include)
Delivery apps have taken the market by storm, with an expected revenue annual growth rate of over 8% and $291 billion USD in market volume by 2027. It's no surprise—they're convenient, save time, and are easy to use. With a few clicks, a delivery app can get your favorite dish or latest fashion delivered directly
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A Comprehensive Guide to Logistic App Development
But far too many logistic apps end up with feature-bloated and buggy user interfaces that don't solve real problems. This guide can help you develop the right logistic application and find product-market fit. Start With Your Problem and Market Research Understanding the problem holistically improves your chances of finding effective solutions. Some market research can
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How to Build a Live Streaming App: Types, Cost, & Must-Have Features
What is a Live Streaming App? A live stream is multi-media digital content broadcasted by one host and transmitted to many viewers over the Internet in real-time. It can feature live events, like sports, news, a security camera feed, or on-demand content, like TV and movies. Video streaming complements social, gaming, telehealth, remote learning, online
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The Ultimate Guide to HIPAA Compliant Video Conferencing
What is HIPAA? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 protects patient privacy and provides easy access to their medical records. While medical appointments are typically held in person, the telehealth industry has boomed over the past few years. This has introduced patients' protected health information (PHI) to a new digital environment
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Support Plans and SLAs at Stream
The most important feature of an API is that it's highly available and reliable. Unfortunately, it's hard to see a company's track record when you make the purchasing decision. At Stream we put a ton of effort into infrastructure, monitoring, high availability and ensuring you have the highest possible uptime. Our infrastructure gracefully handles server
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How To Pick the Best Equipment for Video Conferencing
However, for good reasons, they're not always the most popular among remote employees. Often, video conferences come with many technical issues. Nuisance, such as background noise or low video quality, can ruin the productivity of a conversation while making the meeting feel less "real." Getting the most out of video conferencing requires more than just
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Create a Perfect Remote Employee Onboarding Experience (+ a Checklist)
Remote onboarding has its challenges. It's hard to convey your company values and culture through virtual communications and an inconsistent remote onboarding experience. Consider a first day in person: When a new hire walks into an office on their first day, they're usually greeted by someone in HR or management and shown around. They're surrounded
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Which Free Video Conferencing Service Offers the Best Features?
Video conferencing is essential for remote teams to not let distance get in the way of effective communication. However, your business might not want to pay for a web conferencing service right now, especially if you're on a tight company budget. The problem with using free video conferencing services is dealing with the limitations of
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Stream Chat Flutter v5: Announcing Desktop and Web Support
It’s always been possible to build beautiful chat applications on desktop and web using Flutter and Stream Chat with our core or low-level client chat packages. But, users can now target desktop and web using our UI package, enabling you to get the complete Stream Chat experience regardless of platform. Version 5.0.0 has been overhauled
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The Ultimate Guide to Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing
Video conferencing technology is essential to nearly every modern business, from managing remote teams to closing deals across time zones. There are several ways video and voice calls can form a stable connection, one being peer-to-peer (P2P). This real-time communication solution is a popular choice among users who prioritize security, bandwidth, and a lightweight architecture
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Your Complete Guide to Remote Work Team Building (25+ Activities & Tips)
Ninety-five percent of employees believe that having good relationships with co-workers is important to create a happy and productive work environment. However, remote work can sometimes make building co-worker friendships a bit tricky. The responsibility of team building often falls to managers. And ensuring your team gets along and collaborates together requires more creativity when
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What’s New in Stream Chat React Native v5?
Over the last few months, our React Native team has been making substantial improvements to the React Native Chat SDK. Among bug fixes and other minor changes, this release introduces two new features: offline support and enhanced debugging capabilities. Offline Support Offline support has been one of our most requested features, and we’re thrilled to
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Live Commerce: Video Stream Shopping
The Home Shopping Network (HSN) pioneered live commerce in the ’70s, which means we’re due for an eCommerce renaissance right about now. By blending entertainment with instant purchasing, live shopping offers brands, retailers, and online marketplaces the opportunity to build stronger engagement and loyalty with their audience. What is Live Commerce? Live commerce combines the
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6 APIs That Improve Your Online Marketplace
To help you out, we’ve listed our top picks of the best APIs you can use to build the best online marketplace possible. These APIs will help improve your customer engagement and retention by optimizing the most critical aspects of your online marketplace, from the second the customer hops on your website to the checkout
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How to Optimize the Remote Employee Experience in 2022
The shift from office to home has called for a rearrangement of employee engagement strategies, communication channels, and company dynamics so employees can acclimate to a new office landscape. In a remote workspace, improving the employee experience (EX) means relying on new technologies and adapting work collaboration strategies. This impacts engagement strategies, company culture, career
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4 Proven Ways To Increase Daily Active Users (DAU)
It’s a helpful pulse check on the growth of a product and trends in user behavior. And it gives insight into how many people check your product and the perceived value from the interaction. But keep in mind that not all apps should use DAU as a measure of success. This is because not all
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How to Create Effective User Scenarios: A Step-by-Step Guide
The combination of data and storytelling is a powerful one. Steve Jobs once said, “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” A user scenario is a tool to imagine a user’s journey when using your app.
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4 App Features to Keep Users Engaged
Did you know that 71% of app users churn in the first ninety days after downloading an app? Keeping users engaged can be tough, especially when time is precious and users are impatient to resolve actions quickly. Yet, making the effort to include features for user engagement is important for retention. There are certain app
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10 Best Video Calling APIs: Benefits & Features
What was once a safety precaution, remote medical appointments, events, classrooms, and meetings are now popular and even preferred alternatives to in-person communication and transacting. Your app will need to incorporate an element of video chat to stay competitive. Luckily, video calling APIs make it quick and easy for your development team to integrate reliable
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Mobile App APIs: The Key to Easy Development & Quality UX
While the benefit of these standalone functionalities is clear, there are plenty of solutions working behind the scenes, like social preferences, geo-location, and usage history that enhance UX even more. An API can make these advancements possible and affordable for engineers to integrate with their app’s infrastructure. In this article, we’ll cover the most common
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5 Ways Experienced App Developers Avoid Bad UX Design
However, as Steve Jobs said, “Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.” Ultimately, your app's UX design will be what converts repetitive and engaged users. A good UX design caters to a customer’s needs by enhancing the user experience and facilitating brand
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4 Ways to Conduct a Customer Sentiment Analysis
If users feel dissatisfied or have bad experiences with your product for too long without checking in with how the user is doing, they’ll leave before you can make the improvements they want. In fact, according to research by Zendesk, 76% of customers are willing to switch to a competitor after “multiple bad customer service
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7 Benefits of Chatbots
Research from Gartner predicts that by the end of 2022, 70% of customer interactions will involve technologies like chatbots and mobile messaging. It doesn’t stop there. More and more companies are already adopting chatbots as part of their customer service experience. According to data from Mordor Intelligence, the chatbot market expects to grow 34% from
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The False Promise of Vanity Metrics: Navigating the Path to True Business Success
As businesses strive to stay ahead of the competition, they often turn to data to inform their decisions. But not all metrics are created equal, and some can be more harmful than helpful. You've probably heard the term "vanity metric—metrics that don't uncover meaningful data about your app—and you're probably here because you don't know
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What Is Your “North Star Metric?” (And How to Find It)
A north star metric is a company’s primary metric to measure its app’s success. Sean Ellis, entrepreneur and founder of GrowthHackers, was the first person to coin the term. “The North Star Metric is the single metric that best captures the core value that your product delivers to customers,” says Ellis. “Optimizing your efforts to
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Introducing Video Attachments for Stream’s React Native Chat SDK
Stream is excited to announce a new version of our React Native Chat SDK. This release makes it easy to add full video file/attachment support out of the box to your chat application without needing to go through a time-consuming SDK upgrade. Your end users can now upload, send, and play videos to make their
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How to Identify Your Power Users (And How to Keep Them)
And user retention is low. Within a month of downloading an application, somewhere between 87% and 97% of its users will abandon it. The key to mitigating this high risk of churn? Meet the needs of the app’s users. But when it comes time to make advancements to the app, not all users’ needs should
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How to Run Churn Analysis (And Retain More Users)
However, too much churn could signify something wrong with your app experience. As Lincoln Murphy, founder of Sixteen Ventures, says: “Churn is a symptom of a deeper, underlying disease; that disease is a failure to ensure your customers achieve their Desired Outcome.” Also, churn can be costly for your app. You spent a lot of
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How to Use the RICE Score Model to Prioritize App Features
The RICE score model is a feature prioritization technique that helps you make better decisions for your roadmap based on various factors. Intercom first developed the method when it wanted to make better decisions in its product roadmap and manage its feature ideas. The RICE prioritization method is an effective way to prioritize features in
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In-App Marketing Tactics To Improve User Engagement
You worked hard to develop your mobile app and finally launched it on the iOS and Google Play stores. However, months after your app's release, you may notice a problem: customers aren't engaging with it. When facing this issue, an in-app marketing strategy can be an effective solution. This post explores in-app marketing strategies, their
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Announcing Stream Firebase Extensions for Chat and Feeds
Improving developers' lives is one of the primary goals at Stream--from our SDKs, tooling, and documentation, we always work with our community to build features developers love using. Today, we are excited to share a project we have been working on with the team at Firebase. Together, we created not one but three Firebase Extensions
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How AI Can Help Identify & Moderate Harmful Content
Machine Learning Engineer Chiara Caratelli covers how Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology can be leveraged to identify and moderate commercial spam at DeveloperWeek Europe 2022. Whether you’re attending a virtual event or watching your favorite gamer on a live stream, communicating via chat is a great way to engage with fellow participants, the host, and
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Announcing v4 of the Flutter SDK for Stream Chat
Over the last few months, our Futter team has been hard at work making significant improvements to the Stream Chat Flutter SDK. This version is focused on improving the developer experience by giving you more control and flexibility in how you use our core components and UI widgets. For a detailed list of changes, including
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Gaming Trends: Video Game Industry Growth Statistics
Now, with VR gaming tech, players can virtually lose themselves in alternate realities. In what could be the most significant era in human history, with technology evolving at lightning speed, inquiring minds want to know where gaming will go from here. One of the most accurate ways to predict what will happen is to look
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