Case Studies
Partiful Doubles Retention with Stream Chat & AI Moderation
When the team at Partiful first discussed adding chat, they weren't sure they wanted to do it at all. "We felt like messaging was a really hard space," recalls Amadou Camara, Product Engineer at Partiful. "There's iMessage, there's Messenger. We didn't want to just build another platform for people to message when they can already
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Checkatrade Streamlines Marketplace Communication with Stream Chat
Checkatrade, the UK's leading platform for home improvement, recently launched a new app as part of its mission to digitize the home improvement and repair industry. This case study explores the app's integration of the Stream Chat API, highlighting the features that drove their decision-making, and the transformative impact on their marketplace. The Challenge: Disjointed
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Nextdoor Creates Community at Scale with Stream Chat
Challenge: Nextdoor faced the challenge of maintaining an in-house chat solution that was resource-intensive and lacked desired features. This posed a significant obstacle to fostering user engagement and community interaction, necessitating a more efficient and scalable messaging platform. Strategy: Nextdoor adopted a proactive approach to identify and integrate a suitable messaging solution. Through a one-day
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Gumtree Australia Reduces Fraudulent Marketplace Activities by 80%
Challenge: Gumtree Australia, a leading marketplace, needed to replace its outdated in-house messaging system with a more efficient and reliable solution. Strategy: After rigorous evaluation, Gumtree selected Stream's chat solution, driven by its user-friendly SDK and AI-powered moderation capabilities. The integration process involved a dedicated team of developers over seven months, ensuring seamless deployment across
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Gemini 3 Superhack - What Happened When AI Met the Biggest Sports Weekend?
Super Bowl weekend is one of the biggest moments in sports. On January 31st, in San Francisco, a group of developers decided to build for it. The Gemini 3 SuperHack, hosted with Google DeepMind, challenged participants to reimagine sports and live entertainment. This ran the gamut, from in-game performance analytics and strategy insights to halftime
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coches.net (Formerly Adevinta) Increases Buyer-Seller Transactions
coches.net is an expert mobility marketplace and market leader in Spain. At the time of its integration with Stream, coches.net operated as part of Adevinta, alongside other major European marketplace apps, including Milanuncios and Fotocasa. As a high-volume consumer marketplace, coches.net connects buyers and sellers at moments of high intent. Questions, negotiations, coordination, and decisions
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Lokal Scales Chat, Video, & Audio—Reaching 100M Downloads
For teams building social and community apps, speed is often the difference between learning early and falling behind. Lokal understands this better than most. Over the past seven years, the company has launched more than 60 apps across 10 categories, reaching nearly 100 million downloads across its ecosystem. Rather than betting everything on a single
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Furnished Finder Builds Trusted Rental Marketplace with Stream Chat & AI Moderation
Furnished Finder is the leading two-sided marketplace for monthly furnished rentals, connecting landlords with traveling professionals, remote workers, and relocating families seeking stays of 30 days or more. With a growing network of over 300,000 listings and more than 240,000 landlords nationwide, Furnished Finder connects over 6 million renters annually to real homes in real
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Peerspace Scales Messaging Safely With Stream Chat & AI Moderation
Peerspace is the leading marketplace for booking unique spaces for meetings, productions, and events. The platform connects guests with hosts through real-time, in-app messaging, enabling seamless coordination, faster bookings, and stronger trust on both sides of the marketplace. For Peerspace, keeping conversations inside the platform is a strategic priority. In-app messaging reduces reliance on third-party
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Shipping Real-Time Therapy Conversations with Stream
A senior Android engineer at Argentina's second-largest fintech company, Juan Andrade spent his days shipping features used by millions. But at night, he opened Xcode, taught himself SwiftUI from scratch, and coded until the early hours. His goal was to create a mental health companion that went beyond surface-level validation to provide evidence-based support. This
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Walkie Talkie Scales Community Safety with Stream AI Moderation
For any community app, safety is non-negotiable. Toxic interactions can derail conversations, drive away users, and damage retention. But for smaller, fast-growing companies, building the kind of human moderation teams that Facebook or TikTok employ simply isn't feasible. The Challenge of Moderation at Scale Walkie Talkie, a global social audio app for Gen Z, faced
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Aviv Group Scales Safe, Real-Time Chat with Stream
Aviv Group, one of Europe's largest digital real estate platforms, powers a portfolio of leading real estate brands across France, Germany, and Belgium. Under the leadership of Amrita Choudhury, Director of Product Management, Aviv has embarked on a mission to unify platform experiences across diverse brands and geographies, while maintaining trust, performance, and user satisfaction
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