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34 Best Telemedicine Apps for Providers and Patients in 2023

Harsh winters make the roads out of town frequently impassable. According to the National Institute of Health, they — and the 20 percent of Americans like them who live in rural areas — are statistically more likely to die of heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, drug overdoses, obesity and diabetes. At a busy outpatient clinic
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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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Sendbird Competitors: Sendbird vs Alternatives

However, finding a fair and direct comparison of Sendbird and your other top choices can be difficult with thousands of alternatives. It is essential to determine the budget, primary use case, and must-have features of your project and workflow before evaluating the competitive landscape of chat API offerings. To make things easier, we've rounded up
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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 service provided by a chat vendor that doesn’t show the vendor’s logo, domain, or any other type of vendor-specific branding. The term white-label chat
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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 SendGrid), but their other APIs like voice, chat, video, and
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Review: SendBird vs. Stream

Real-time chat messaging is a critical component of your application to improve user conversion, engagement, retention, and satisfaction. When searching for a provider and infrastructure to integrate and enable in-app messaging, you might compare the two major players in the market today — Stream Chat and SendBird Chat. Stream and Sendbird are the most commonly
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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 chat. Layer has been providing a chat solution
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Why Stream is the Best Alternative to PubNub Chat

In-app chat is a staple of every interactive web or mobile application that we use today. It keeps users in your app, boosts app engagement, and ultimately creates a better user experience. Launching your in-app chat feature is critical for user conversion, engagement, retention, and satisfaction, which means choosing the right provider to build it
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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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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 try an interactive tutorial of Stream here. Getting Started with Algolia
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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 an interactive tutorial of Stream here._ Approximately 60%+ of the
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