Rainway Blog
rainway.com · Company blog · on HN since 2019
Company blog of Rainway, a game and app streaming startup, with posts on its product, the Bebop serialization format and company strategy.
What HN saysHN commenters mostly mention Rainway as an example of game-streaming tech and as a startup that used several technologies for its website.
23HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
24stories submitted
317story points
4 years agolast shared
2019people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Format5 people · 128 points · first shared 2020 · 57 comments on HN
- 2Rainway 1.0.0 released5 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 3Rainway: Interactive App Streaming for Everyone3 people · 11 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 4Bebop v2.3.0 now supports Rust – a faster, safer alternative to Protobuf3 people · 6 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Rainway's Master Plan to Help Build the Future of “X”2 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 6Rainway forces signing up to Discord in order to delete your account1 people · 77 points · first shared 2020 · 39 comments on HN
- 7The Art of Pivoting: How We Built Rainway1 people · 48 points · first shared 2020 · 7 comments on HN
- 8Flutter: A Framework to Surpass React Native1 people · 27 points · first shared 2019 · 3 comments on HN
- 9We Discovered a Virus Infecting Tens of Thousands of Fortnite Players1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 10Bringing PC Games to Mobile with Flutter1 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 11Rainway for iOS Enters Beta. Raises $3.5M1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 12Rainway partners with Microsoft to deliver new cloud gaming experience1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 13Game on Your iPad with a Keyboard and Mouse1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 14We made the dev tier free. Go nuts. – Rainway1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 15Rainway now lets you stream your PC games to your TV1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
andrewmd5 · 2019-01-13
>Do each Airbnb engineer create their own stack for a tiny part of the website ?
I don't work at Airbnb but I am the CEO of another startup. Our main website (https://rainway.com/) used three different technologies to build it. Why? Because it streamlined development. One team could focus on the code powering the blog, while another could write static pages that query an API. The build process brings it all together.
Tool such as Figma (we moved from Zeplin) do an amazing job for designing entire user interfaces and interactions and providing developers with all the needed materials to implement them. If you're building a homepage for a mom and pop shop, download WordPress. If you need to build something across multiple teams, you need tools to make it easier.
skazazes · 2022-10-18
code-server https://github.com/coder/code-server works fairly well and can be saved to the home screen as a web applet to get rid of the browser URL bar. Their are a few UI issues related to touch but it has served well enough for some light work.
You can also use a remote apps like Rainway/TeamViewer/RDP/VNC somewhat successfully to get a more full desktop experience. Unfortunately they all seem to have their own input caveats that take some getting used to.
I am personally waiting for Parsec to release native iPadOS and tvOS clients as it provides the best experience I have found.
It seems like the gaming oriented remote desktop apps (Rainway https://rainway.com/, Parsec https://parsec.app/) are the best though as the latency on the more traditional ones is somewhat of a hindrance.
USB/Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support tends to work okay, but the simulated touch mouse makes getting used to things tough. If you have not tried using iPad OS with a mouse I suggest you look into before making a purchase as it is a fairly limiting experience.
FloatArtifact · 2020-11-07
This includes platforms to stream games from users local PC to clients. As an example RainWay
https://rainway.com/
So this ban is broader than the article suggest.
neonhat · 2020-05-22
Rainway: https://rainway.com/
Google Stadia: https://stadia.google.com/
It's not even about gaming. Fuck gaming. It's about the underlying streaming technology.
Imagine this same tech being used by a surgeon to perform surgery remotely. That's the type of use case I'm thinking about!
aroman · 2020-12-24
Rainway? https://rainway.com
gillesjacobs · 2021-03-02
Benchmarks can be found here: https://rainway.com/blog/2020/12/09/bebop-an-efficient-schema-based-bi…
Bebop looks very promising but information on how does it compare size-wise is missing. Sure MessagePack is typically comparitively slow, but the size is nearly unbeatable [1]. And size is definitely important in networked applications.
1. https://cran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2018-07-06/web/packages/msgpack/vi…
musicale · 2020-11-07
> This includes platforms to stream games from users local PC to clients
Steam Link seems to do that just fine: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/steam-link/id1246969117
And Rainway also as you note: https://rainway.com/ios/
hammerton · 2020-06-13
Like with most 'free' services, I get the impression that they plan on selling your data. https://rainway.com/privacy/