STREAMLY
Your screen, your story.
Timeline
20 weeks
Investment
$76,000
Platforms
iOS & Android · Casting
Category
Video Streaming (OTT)
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Overview
STREAMLY is a Netflix-class video streaming app: a cinematic browse experience, personalized rows, full series/episode navigation, offline downloads, and a premium player with subtitles, audio tracks, playback speed, and skip-intro. Built for smooth adaptive streaming and content protection.
The challenge
OTT streaming has exacting expectations: instant, adaptive playback that never buffers, DRM-protected content, offline downloads, and a browse experience that makes thousands of titles feel curated. The player is the product, every control and transition has to feel effortless.
Our solution
We built STREAMLY in React Native with native, DRM-protected players for adaptive streaming. A cinematic home surfaces featured titles, trending, continue-watching, and new releases; title pages present episodes, cast, and related content; and the player delivers subtitles, multiple audio tracks, variable speed, skip-intro, casting, and offline downloads. A recommendation service personalizes the rows.
Whatwebuilt
Cinematic home: featured hero, trending, continue watching, new releases, categories
Title detail: seasons/episodes, cast, ratings, match %, more-like-this
Premium player: adaptive streaming, subtitles, audio tracks, playback speed, skip intro, lock
Offline downloads with DRM and quality options
Personalized recommendation rows and My List
Casting (Chromecast / AirPlay) and resume-across-devices
Search with filters (movies, series, new)
Technology stack
- Mobile
- React Native (TypeScript) with native video players
- Streaming
- Adaptive HLS/DASH, ExoPlayer / AVPlayer
- DRM
- Widevine (Android) & FairPlay (iOS), license server
- Recommendations
- Personalization service (collaborative + content-based)
- Backend
- Node.js (NestJS), PostgreSQL, Redis
- Delivery
- Multi-CDN, transcoding pipeline (AWS MediaConvert)
- Infra
- AWS, CloudFront
The team
Product designer, 2 mobile engineers, 1 streaming/DRM engineer, 1 backend engineer, QA engineer, plus a delivery lead.
Timeline, 20 weeks
Discovery & streaming architecture (3) → Design system (2) → Browse & title pages (3) → Player & adaptive streaming (4) → DRM & offline downloads (3) → Recommendations & My List (2) → Casting & search (1) → QA & launch (2).
Hard problems we solved
DRM-protected offline downloads across both platforms required per-platform license handling and secure local storage. Buttery adaptive playback with instant start and no rebuffering came from CDN tuning, transcoding ladders, and native player configuration.
Results & impact
STREAMLY delivered a premium OTT experience, cinematic browse, a best-in-class player, protected offline viewing, and personalized rows, on streaming infrastructure built to stay smooth as the catalog and audience grow.
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