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Stream — Analytics for feeds
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Awesome addition to the product guys!
Super excited about what Stream is doing - I look at this as the logical evolution of web and mobile apps into independent services run by experts who can focus every single day on making that specific service as functional as possible. We first saw the power of this with the success of products that now seem obvious with SendGrid, Twilio, and Stripe. Now we're seeing Algolia, Mapbox, and others continue to add modularity options.
I think many developers focus only on the required upfront energy to build functionality into a product. Where Stream really shines is in the maintenance, scalability, and analytics. I love the way they set up their pricing model to reflect this, it's free for up to 3 million monthly feed updates to encourage developers to get up and running quickly with Stream. As the usage beings to scale, the impressive infrastructure Stream has built kicks into action. Combined with the analytics and personalization they provide, I think the payback on developer time saved is obvious.
Excited to continue to see their growth and more amazing companies using Stream. Disclaimer: Galvanize is a happy investor!
@fletchrichman I totally agree, it's very powerful trend. At Stream we work with both large (tens of millions of users) and tiny apps. It's inspiring to see what small teams can build leveraging services like Algolia, Stream, Mapbox, Crashlytics and Stripe.
It looks like an excellent product. The problem is common for the web and mobile products, and it takes time and effort to properly implement it.
I agree with @Steve Lammertink, it would be nice to see some real examples.
@alexbeletsky @steve do you have a preference in what kind of example you would like to see (web, iOS, Android, etc)?
At Stream we've helped hundreds of companies with scaling their feeds. We noticed many apps struggled to show relevant content in their feed though.
Stream's analytics for feeds help you monitor how users interact with your feed. We've been inspired by the work Quora, Facebook, Etsy and Zite have done in this area.
@tschellenbach Congrats on the launch. This is a big step forward. Feeds are becoming a core part of more and more apps. Facebook has done a good job acquainting over a billion people with what a feed is, so it is a relatively natural thing for many, many people. Though that's great for users, it's historically been hard for developers to really build a feed that will meet user expectations (which are pretty high). Glad to see you folks continuing to work on this hard problem. #happyinvestor
@dharmesh thanks! We're moving ahead quickly and are seeing more and more adoption amongst larger companies.
Stoked on what we are doing with @tschellenbach & 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.
Would be cool to see some examples of those feeds!
Based on the founders experience, I can imagine it will be stellar.
Does Stream have IOS and Android clients? I was not able to find such details at https://getstream.io/docs/
Hi, @das_vicky yes we have analytics clients for iOS, Android and Web. See http://getstream.io/docs_analytics/
For our main API we don't have official iOS and Android clients as we recommend our users to implement it server side for optimal security and performance.
This is a scary territory for a lot of companies - great to see a powerful tool like this to help with the challenges of scale and content delivery.
We've been using Stream on Stationfy.com (social network for sports) for months now and the product is pretty phenomenal. Highly recommended guys.
We have about 12M monthly feed updates generated by our users, but it was pretty hard to understand their behavior. I'll be definitely trying Analytics, it was the missing part for a perfect feed news. Cheers!
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