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Jay was working as a software engineer when he took the solo trip that led to Nomadtable. He intentionally stayed at hostels to meet other travelers, but found many of them quiet and unsociable. While it was frustrating in the moment, it led to an idea, why not build an app that allows travelers to connect abroad? He quit his job and gave himself a year to build it.

You can vibe code almost anything right now. Describe an app, and a model will build a working interface in minutes. So why hasn't that produced a wave of new companies? We wanted to find out. So we picked one of the hardest products to fake, an AI support concierge, the kind of system that handles millions of customer conversations for companies valued in the billions. Then we tried to build one with a single prompt.

You might remember Moltbook, a vibe-coded social network for AI agents that fell apart within a week because messages weren't private and there was no moderation. This piece is about the gap between a vibe-coded demo and a production-ready real-time feature, and why AI tools can't close it for you.

Prediction markets are in a head-to-head race for market leadership. Two platforms currently sit at the front of the pack. Both have reached record-breaking trading volumes in the billions, attracted millions of users, and race to keep those users connected when activity spikes. They also have something else in common. Stream sits at the center of both user experiences.

Stream's Livestreaming product now supports 4K at 60fps over WebRTC. We wanted to share some details about the choices that made this possible, from codec selection to VMAF-driven bitrate targets to the adaptive bitrate ladder that keeps it watchable for everyone.

Stream Chat now has experimental UI components for Jaspr, the Dart web framework that Google's own dart.dev and flutter.dev run on. One package gets you the components and the low-level client, under names you already know from the Flutter SDK. It is an experiment, and how far we take it depends on whether you want to build chat on the web in Dart.

Apps like Slack and WhatsApp made team chat easy. The right AI features can make it better. Here's how to build them into community, collaboration, and team platforms to increase user satisfaction and speed up task completion.

Agent skills make building Stream-powered products (chat, video, activity feeds, moderation) effortless using coding agents like Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and Kimi K3. This tutorial shows you how to add iMessage-style features, such as rich text messaging and FaceTime calling, to apps and services.