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Beam Interactive — Interact with your favorite streamer's gameplay in realtime
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@bentossell amazing presentation. Did you hear they first called themselves Pied Piper?
@bentossell Sure! We founded our first startup back in 2011 and while we were growing it we worked with tons of awesome content creators on both Twitch and YouTube (I moderate for a bunch of large Twitch casters to this day!). When Twitch started moving towards eSports (namely with the change of streaming protocols from RTMP to HLS) it nearly destroyed the interaction between viewers and streamers in community focused streams.
Since we had thousands of servers all over the world and an awesome engineering team at MCPro, it seemed like a natural progression, and so we set out to build a streaming platform that had interactivity at its core. 200ms stream latency using WebRTC, interactive game integrations so viewers can get involved with gameplay, chat polls, and native moderation tools are all things we prioritized early on.
We launched a beta in January and today we have over 110,000 people watching and interacting with content every month!! Super excited about that and things to come... keep an eye out!
@mattsalsamendi @bentossell Congratulations Beam team! Watched you win live. Nice seeing a startup win that has overcome big technical challenges and great work on the huge growth. Will be watching closely.
Was at TechCrunch to see these guys present. Spoke to them out in the Alley a few times. The CEO is 18 and has already built and sold his previous company. He also has 21 employees, at 18!!! He was super articulate and confidently answered every question the panel had for him. Super impressed with these guys, the tech is awesome too! Great things to come!
Hey guys, cool product but currently doesn't seem to work with Safari Technology Preview! Just wanted to let you guys know!
@leachy114 That's no fun! Flying back from NY now but having someone from the team take a look ASAP.
@leachy114 Quick heads up, this was probably caused by Safari treating foreign websocket headers like the plague. If you're running the latest tech preview this should be fixed. (We reported it shortly after it was released)
@adamslieb Not raising at the moment, but certainly excited for things going on!
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