Streaming online content with your friends virtually

3 min readSep 17, 2021

Challenge

Don’t we all enjoy going to the cinema with our friends? Isn’t it tough, given the current pandemic situation? A lot of new films end up on a streaming site, and there are so many binge-worthy shows coming out every day these days. But nothing like watching them with friends isn’t it? How would you build an experience where you can watch the online streaming content with your friends virtually? Presume that these users who use the app are already paying customers.

Problem

In this Covid-19 time, the challenge is to have fun together with friends
Invite them to movies and see each other.
Chat regarding whats happening in the movie

Goals

To create an app where friends can streaming content together.
The app should let users invite their friends.
Users can chat with friends while watching the content.
While watching video is in full-screen users can see the friends watching the video along with them.

Focused User

App is more focused for the group of people aged between 18–40 year.

It is not that the app can’t be used for the age group above 40 but its more likely to serve the teen generation as the following report suggest regarding the online streaming used in household

Source : https://www.marketingcharts.com/digital/video-104942/attachment/comscore-household-distribution-ott-streaming-behavior-july2018

Competing Products

Rave

Pros:

Can make group and excess series from different platforms like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Google Drive, YouTube.
Can invite from contacts.
Can chat with each other

Corns:

Need to login specifically on each platform.

Hearo

Pros:

Can make group and excess series from different platforms like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Google Drive, YouTube.
Can chat with each other

Corns:

Need to login specifically on each platform.
Can only invite by adding username.

Hotstar

Pros:

Can make group with friends.
Informative interface where user has thumbnails for all the movies and series

Corns:

Can access content that belong to Hotstar and no 3rd party content is available.
No social media invitations for making group

User Review on Competitive Platforms

There were many review on Play Store regarding the design and user finding issues while interacting with the app in design perspective

The following reviews are from Rave and Hearo App.

Solution

App that can streams shows from different platforms as well as have show and movie of the own platform
Users are free to chat with friends while watching a match or movie
User can toggle whether to see friends while watching the movie or not on full view.
User is free to invite fiends from and search them from username or share link on social media platform.
User can search the content they want to see and not just rely on the existing groups