The Art of Pivoting: How We Built Rainway

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For those of you who read the article and were still not sure what Rainway does:

> Rainway allows you to launch all your PC games from one place on your home computer or through any browser, and it's completely free.

I'm still not sure I understand. It's just the streaming piece of Steam?

Although the technology is different, Gaikai were doing something extraordinarily similar to this back in 2011. The games ran on "an actual computer", and the entire i/o stream (video, audio, user input events) moved between that and a browser (on any platform).

Ultimately, Sony bought Gaikai and it vanished as standalone concept (rebranded as "Playstation Now", and mostly about zero day playing options).

CEO of Rainway here! David Perry (CEO and founder of Gaikai) is actually one of our close advisors. His insight into our market is invaluable.

I'm also really surprised to see this old blog I wrote posted. I hope everyone enjoys it.

This looks great, how is it free? Who buys my game data if that's the product?

My thought exactly, would be curious to know what their monetization model is. Surely can't build and maintain what must be a fairly sophisticated piece of software without money coming in.

Very cool product. Nowadays I don't play enough games to ever justify paying for something like that but I can totally see past me do it to play on my college notebook while in between classes :P

Would love to see their open source protocol in a cross platform screen sharing app! If the latency works for gaming, it certainly would work for simple desktop task.

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