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Their site says: Rainway will always be completely free to use with no hidden cost. You can stream all your games, whenever you want, wherever you are, for as

Their site says: Rainway will always be completely free to use with no hidden cost. You can stream all your games, whenever you want, wherever you are, for as long as you want. /endquote So where's their income coming from? The blog post from the OP mentions they're hiring.

andrewmd5 8y ago
We recently just raised our seed round: https://blog.rainway.io/we-just-raised-our-seed-round-982fb0567329 https://blog.rainway.io/we-just-raised-our-seed-round-982fb0...
- driverdan 8y ago
  That's great but it doesn't answer the question. Investment is not income.
  - andrewmd5 8y ago
    We are in beta and not willing to charge for an unfinished product. We have plans for some premium offerings down the line.
    - polyomino 8y ago
      Perhaps you could buy and resell time on nearby machines peer to peer.
    - breakingcups 8y ago
      What about a finished product? You currently say "Rainway will always be completely free to use with no hidden cost."
zimbatm 8y ago
My own silly analysis: monetisation can come at a later stage. Since the server is running on the customer's Window machine they won't have much infrastructure costs to support even if they get very popular. If the main product is free then revenue can be added through extensions like hosted service or parnership (eg: integration with Twich or another video game streaming service).
- ramses0 8y ago
  "Play games you already own using your own hardware for $0.00 for the next 1 year." "We've noticed frame drops while you're playing Skyrim, click here to upgrade to a premium stream from a premium computer using your own cloud saves! (only $1.99/mo!)" ...or pay $1000 for a new video card. "We've noticed you don't own Skyrim, click here to instantly start playing from our computers instead of your computer for $1.99/hour or $10/mo, or $100/mo for unlimited access to all games, etc, etc.!"
maltyr 8y ago
just a total guess on my part, but they are basically inserting themselves in between a game and a stream. the product might also be targeted to be acquired by any of the market players, but i can't see anyone outside of twitch and mixer (being a microsoft product) would be interested. maybe they will have access to their own set of gaming stream content, which allows them to be an streaming platform in general, which would allow them to be a competitor to twitch/mixer. also... "selling" access streamers (i.e. the streamers are the content and advertisers/publishers can reach them through rainway), so more of a complementary product to the streaming sites. there's also the alternative of having premium services on a subscription model. most likely idea here would be some sort of premium model that bumps you higher up in content discovery somehow, or just free games.

andrewmd5 8y ago

We recently just raised our seed round: https://blog.rainway.io/we-just-raised-our-seed-round-982fb0567329 https://blog.rainway.io/we-just-raised-our-seed-round-982fb0...

driverdan 8y ago
That's great but it doesn't answer the question. Investment is not income.
- andrewmd5 8y ago
  We are in beta and not willing to charge for an unfinished product. We have plans for some premium offerings down the line.
  - polyomino 8y ago
    Perhaps you could buy and resell time on nearby machines peer to peer.
  - breakingcups 8y ago
    What about a finished product? You currently say "Rainway will always be completely free to use with no hidden cost."

zimbatm 8y ago

My own silly analysis: monetisation can come at a later stage. Since the server is running on the customer's Window machine they won't have much infrastructure costs to support even if they get very popular. If the main product is free then revenue can be added through extensions like hosted service or parnership (eg: integration with Twich or another video game streaming service).

ramses0 8y ago
"Play games you already own using your own hardware for $0.00 for the next 1 year." "We've noticed frame drops while you're playing Skyrim, click here to upgrade to a premium stream from a premium computer using your own cloud saves! (only $1.99/mo!)" ...or pay $1000 for a new video card. "We've noticed you don't own Skyrim, click here to instantly start playing from our computers instead of your computer for $1.99/hour or $10/mo, or $100/mo for unlimited access to all games, etc, etc.!"

maltyr 8y ago

just a total guess on my part, but they are basically inserting themselves in between a game and a stream. the product might also be targeted to be acquired by any of the market players, but i can't see anyone outside of twitch and mixer (being a microsoft product) would be interested. maybe they will have access to their own set of gaming stream content, which allows them to be an streaming platform in general, which would allow them to be a competitor to twitch/mixer. also... "selling" access streamers (i.e. the streamers are the content and advertisers/publishers can reach them through rainway), so more of a complementary product to the streaming sites. there's also the alternative of having premium services on a subscription model. most likely idea here would be some sort of premium model that bumps you higher up in content discovery somehow, or just free games.