Luke Chesser Co-founder, Unsplash

Following as a technical concept sounds fairly trivial, but we can assure you that doing it in a future-friendly, reliable way, at scale is a challenge. We leaned heavily on a 3rd party service, Stream, to handle the infrastructure and aggregation, which let us launch Following now and not in 2020. Huge shoutout to their team for all of their help with making the launch a success!

Todd Cronin Founder, Bandsintown

Stoked on what we are doing with 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.

Yohan Hartanto Sr. Engineer, Twitter

Integrating with getstream.io allows us to ramp up a notification platform at large scale very quickly, so we can focus on other core features.

Dharmesh Shah Founder, Hubspot

Fantastic technical team building a service that I could use for a couple of projects myself some day.

Matt Webster CTO at Global Citizen

At Global Citizen (globalcitizen.org), we are connecting people and organizations who want to change the world. When it came time to build activity streams that showed the actions that millions of global citizens are taking to end extreme poverty, adopting Stream was a no-brainer. In a few, short development sprints we were able to deliver a solution that scaled to support our large user community in a fraction of the time it would have taken to build a similar solution ourselves. I would use Stream again in a heartbeat.

Dan Kantor VP, Rhapsody

For years I've struggled to build and scale a feed. Stream is the type of product I've been searching for.

Axel Manzano Developer

Thanks @getstream_io we pushed live a new feature and without your service it would have take ages to build, our @goodgym runners appreciate

Todd Troxell Principal Engineer at Pocket

I can say first hand that building a highly scalable feed system is a big project. Stream is a very well executed feed framework backed by an open source project, and I'd definitely consider using it for future projects.

Richard Talens Founder Fitocracy/ Guild

Wow you guys are absolutely awesome. Thanks! :))))

For context, I'm launching a site called "Guild" in January. It's essentially like Fitocracy (gamified fitness platform that I co-founded) except for all skills, such as personal finance, starting a business, etc. Had tons of problems scaling with Fitocracy and writing/rewriting our stream took months, so this solution is literally miraculous to me. Can't wait to give you guys my money, ha! Thanks again for an awesome product.

Jud Valeski Founder, GNIP

The feed UI content consumption metaphor is here to stay and saas'ing that is a natural evolution. Adding a feedback loop to it in a generic manner is a huge opportunity; simplifies the lives of developers and product owners in a huge way!