Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12)

Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by ritikm on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:21PM (#7900226)

(Streem co-founder here) Small clerical error - we were actually YC S12, not W14 :).

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by MIT_Hacker on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:00PM (#7900481)

Ahhh!!! Congrats Ritik. Huge news and always nice to see good news from other Thiel Fellows :)

Really hope Streem continues to exist as an independent product or at least as a plugin on top of Box or something.

Good luck man!

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by natural219 on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:15PM (#7900564)

Congrats man. I remember meeting you at the Meteor meetup and was thrilled with your vision (plus the balls to go with Meteor!). Good luck with your endeavors.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by jsun on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:57PM (#7900457)

hey we've been looking for this EXACT solution for ages and had no idea you guys existed...

Is Streem going to continue to live on as a separate product?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by avelis on Monday June 16, 2014 @04:10PM (#7901186)

As someone who signed up on the waiting list but haven't received an invite. Will I have a chance to experience your product at all?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by nwenzel on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:40PM (#7900364)

Congrats Ritik! Box adding a streaming content provider opens up a new world for them. Great choice on their part.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by nicklovescode on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:20PM (#7900584)

Wohoooo Congrats!

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by zan2434 on Monday June 16, 2014 @06:26PM (#7901839)

congrats Ritik! Proud of ya

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by cktsai on Monday June 16, 2014 @05:06PM (#7901480)

congrats guys!

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by windsurfer on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:01PM (#7900492)

Another "our incredible journey":

> we want to thank our beta testers for their helpful feedback, our amazing investors for believing in us from the start, and our friends and family for supporting us through the ride.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by ritikm on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:11PM (#7900545)

We really wanted to make the list :)

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by rdl on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:58PM (#7900797)

Do you have to include the literal phrase "our incredible journey" in the acquisition or shutdown announcement to be eligible?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by tnorthcutt on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:17PM (#7900570)

And to further optimize the experience and support low-bandwidth environments, Streem has developed enhanced video and media streaming technology to ensure content is accessible from the cloud as fast as it is locally.

How is this technically possible?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by adamors on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:38PM (#7900687)

They've developed a new compression algorithm with a Weissman score of 5.2.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by jayzalowitz on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:51PM (#7900756)

So the purchase price was above 10m? They turned that down when salesforce offered..

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by GarrettBeck on Monday June 16, 2014 @09:11PM (#7902368)

+1

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by ritikm on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:43PM (#7900717)

We built an on-demand adaptive bitrate video transcoder that works with HLS. So it's able to fluctuate the quality and size of the video being streamed server-side before sending it down to the client. In a low-bandwidth environment, the quality decreases automatically so that the video streams without any lag. It's similar to how Netflix does their streaming.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by silverbax88 on Monday June 16, 2014 @04:37PM (#7901351)

How is this different than adaptive streaming?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by manishsharan on Monday June 16, 2014 @03:09PM (#7900868)

If you are using FFMPEG for this, would you care to share your hack ?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by hack_edu on Monday June 16, 2014 @05:26PM (#7901563)

One hopes Box didn't acquire a company with only a beta-invite product for simply their ffmpeg one-liners...

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by livejamie on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:46PM (#7900392)

Did anybody else read "Box Acquiring Steam" at first?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by kevin818 on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:21PM (#7900593)

Yes, but then I realized that wouldn't make much sense so I forced myself to read each letter :)

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by rdl on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:39PM (#7900357)

Wow, congratulations. It's interesting that what seems to be a more video/etc. content focused company is going to Box -- is Box trying to beef up their consumer/content-professional market?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by BorisMelnik on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:45PM (#7900388)

Smart acquisition! I didn't know about Streem, wow what a great idea. The one thing always holding me back from day to day usage of Dropbox / Box etc is being able to mount these drives in Windows. I would definitely sign up / pay for an account now.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by icebraining on Monday June 16, 2014 @06:59PM (#7901962)

You've been able to mount Box drives on Windows since at least 2006. They support Webdav, which Windows XP and above can mount natively.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by hatred on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:19PM (#7900577)

Can Ritik comment on some insights into how StreemFS looks like ? Does it follow a nfs client-server model where the server then makes a request to the Streem servers to get back the data and also managing look ahead buffers etc ?

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by tootie on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:33PM (#7900658)

That is some interesting stuff. I had to shut off Dropbox sync when it literally filled my hard drive. It sounds like Steem just caches virtual files that link to remote data. I'm curious to see it in action.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by dtfiw on Monday June 16, 2014 @05:02PM (#7901461)

Congrats! I just hope the acquisition was all cash, and not for stock.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by sid_xervmon on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:41PM (#7900371)

Congrats to founders and whole team. This is just awesome.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by natural219 on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:17PM (#7900568)

Now let's see something like this but with an open source protocol like Camlistore.

Still looking for a co-founder to tear this industry apart. Email's in profile.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by sajithw on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:24PM (#7900252)

Congrats, ritik!

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by magic5227 on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:21PM (#7900214)

Great purchase, could add a lot of value to their consumer offering.

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by cstigler on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:20PM (#7900583)

Wooooooo Streem!

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Re:Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) by fuire8 on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @01:39PM (#7911444)

no wonder why they had to pull IPO.

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