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I'm curious how you plan to compete.

Microsoft and Sony have a large catalog to offer, Amazon and Google have large data centers, a lot of money to throw at publishers, and a good path to integration with streaming (Youtube and Twitch).

Geforce Now has shown the hostility independent efforts will have to face.

I also believe the target audience is mostly users who can't or don't want to afford dedicated hardware and will want a good collection of games with a subscription.

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I don't plan to compete with those huge services and their catalogues.

Instead, I'm building a platform as a service. My ideal customers will be the software publishers that want to run their own streaming cloud. There's a lot of demand for enterprise solutions that allow you to demo things online. With a regular unlimited demo version, you have the risk of people trying to crack it. If the demo is a streaming service, then you can use everything, but copy nothing.

In essence, a high performance streaming solution is the perfect copy protection for pricey enterprise apps.

sure for gaming, but why would i run my enterprise software on your pc wherw you can see my propertary data. does not make sense except gaming and some other smaller things.

I think it makes a ton of sense for things like EDA software, they have to run on beefy machines that are shared between users and the user experience over thinlinc / X11 forwarding is typically pretty atrocious. If you sell that solution to Cadence they would be super happy probably.

It makes sense if I sell you the software and the rack space but you can use it on your own hardware which you fully control.

There is a lot of appeal in "play anywhere" alone. Such software gives you the ability to better utilize your hardware by playing from your laptop, friend's house or phone. Also, imagine only needing a weak device as thin client and doing 3D or photo editing through your main computer.

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