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Rainway - Play your favorite PC games from any web enabled device

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7yr ago

Rainway lets you leverage the power of your PC to play your favorite games on any device, anywhere, at anytime. Overwatch on your mac? We got you covered. Want to play CIV on your tablet? We can handle that too. With Rainway, you can enjoy your favorite games without limitations.

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Product Hunt

Suuuper interesting. The first startup I worked at was InstantAction, building tech to enable any game to be playable in the browser. While a very different solution than this, we were approaching a similar opportunity back in 2009. This also reminds me of Gaikai and Onlive, both acquired by Sony (edited my previous typo).

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@rrhoover The web as a platform has really evolved over the last 10 years. Hopefully we're able to keep pushing browsers to their limits and make a positive impact on their development. Would love to hear more about your time at InstantAction.

7yr ago

Shepard Fairey AR exhibition

@rrhoover didn't Sony buy Gaikai and turned it into playstation now? Together with David Perry.

7yr ago

Product Hunt

@ericdiepeveen you're right! I mixed this up. Edited!

7yr ago

Vladislav Sozonov

There much more powerful app with the same idea — playkey.net

Pros:

have a Mac so no pros yet

Cons:

PC only

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

The Rainway web client allows you to play across most platforms without any extra downloads. Our self-hosted server is currently Windows only with plans for a macOS and Linux variant down the line.

7yr ago

Thanks Vladislav. I am founder of Playkey and just noticed accidentally your post! It motivates to make our product much better.

7yr ago

Armen Mkrtchian

Sendtask

Only for Windows PC. No server for Mac :(

7yr ago

TheyMadeThat

@armen_mkrtchian even when games are on the Mac, most of the time they’re not even optimized for it. Macs are great but until fairly recently games weren’t even on its radar

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@armen_mkrtchian While our server is currently Windows only, we do have plans for a macOS and Linux variant in our pipeline.

7yr ago

Would love this service if it wasn't buggy and there were paid or free servers so you didn't need a gaming PC

Pros:

Free

Cons:

Buggy, slow connection, need a gaming PC to run server

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

Hi Adrian, Sorry you had issues with our service, can you share some of these bugs you ran into? As for slow connections, this comes down to your internet and hardware as nothing is actually going through our servers. You need to properly configure the streaming for your machine.

7yr ago

Shuuka

great but.. " Connection log Connecting over WebRTC first. Failed to connect with WebRTC {"Error":"TargetDoesNotExist"} Attempting to connect by socket. Failed to connect with socket. Could not locate DNS entries, please run the server first time setup. "

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@edwardvasquezdr You need to install the agent/server on a Windows 10 PC before you can use the web client.

7yr ago

Thanks for your product! Now I can play games on my MacBook from my home PC everywhere http://take.ms/r8K1Q A lot of bugs but I believe that you will fix them soon 😉

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@gogola If you find any major issues please message me on Twitter and I will take a look!

7yr ago

Hristiyan Dodov

Mode Remote

First of all, this looks very cool! 🙌 But... PC? I feel like it would’ve made much more sense to play console games. Don’t get me wrong, though, I love any type of game, no matter the platform. In my opinion, console games would be more fitting because they are designed to be played via controller - something you can hook up with your phone (I guess, I haven’t actually done it). On the other hand, some PC games can be played via controller, yes, but then there are games like Starcraft, World of Warcraft and whatnot where you *need* to play with keyboard and mouse, which are a bit harder to plug in a phone, I think. I’m not saying it sounds reasonable to play Starcraft on a phone, just using it as an example for how some PC games need keyboards.

7yr ago

Ready Player Me Halloween Edition

Cool to see more products in this space. Have you experimented streaming from Windows machines on AWS EC2 service?

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@tiivik We played around with EC2 a bit, we will be posting some official guides on our blog on how you can get it up and running on cloud servers.

7yr ago

I've tried to sign in and list the games on iPhone (Safari & Chrome) but it keeps loading and no any result. Is mobile not supporting? Also, there is a responsiveness issue on the page.

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@rufatmammadli We should have a patch out this coming week to address some mobile browser issues.

7yr ago

Does the web client work for Mac? It says "Unable to connect to Rainway by websocket: It looks like you've never run Rainway before. Please download it from https://rainway.io on a Windows 10 PC before using this client.." Do I just need to do this once?

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@adrian_carolli The web client works great on mac! As the message states, you should download the server onto a Windows 10 PC. The client is then used to access that PC to play your games.

7yr ago

@andrewmd5 Hmmm is this like remote desktop? Can my brother be playing overwatch (for example) on the same desktop that I host the rainway server while I also play using the web client? Or can there only be one player at a time?

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@adrian_carolli We're currently building a streamlined coop experience into our platform. Right now however if you wanted to say play Cuphead with your brother, he could be sitting at the PC playing with one controller while you remote in via the client. You would just be the one that has to start the game.

7yr ago

why is the site so obtuse about exactly what the service is? Took me registering and opening the web client to realize that I had to have a PC to download the server on?

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@jordankrueger Hi Jordan, any suggestions for how we could improve it?

7yr ago

@andrewmd5 As someone who can't use the service (I only have a Mac) I still don't quite understand what it is you're selling here. You say "stream all your games" in one area, so all I can figure out is that this is a way to play the games I currently own on a mobile device. You're just making some perplexing choices, like showing this big list of games in a Rainway window – it made me think this was a Steam-like service where I could play any game that you license on my mobile device. Moreover, it seems like the way you're using the term "streaming games" that you feel like that's a signaler to readers of how this works, but I had no idea what that meant. "Streaming games have never been this easy!" is the second sentence on the page and I have no idea what that means, while the next sentence is "Rainway makes streaming games so easy you'll be playing in just a few clicks." which means almost exactly the same thing as the sentence before it without explaining any more clearly what the service is. Howabout something like "Download Rainway to your PC to play games installed on your computer on any mobile device" or something like that? Also, adding "(PC)" to the "Download server" button seems like it'd make most sense since you're pushing a file directly to me without any idea that I need a PC to use it until it's already on my computer.

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@jordankrueger This service is for PC gamers with and existing collection of games looking to stream them to other devices. Thanks for the feedback however, I will try and apply it appropriately.

7yr ago

ZEPETO

Amazing concept! I love the promotional video, it is very well done :)

7yr ago

Product Pearson

Oh god it's OnLive all over again

7yr ago

Rainway

Maker

@productpearson While OnLive was a bit ahead of its time, Rainway is a self-hosted platform. This means you can use your existing hardware, internet and games without paying extra money.

7yr ago

good luck, you still have much space to grow 👍🏻

Pros:

another breakthrough in mobile gaming

Cons:

need a PC, but I have mac

7yr ago

AIVatar

Anyone here remembers OnLive? They tried to do this and I actually played a few games with them but they failed and closed up shop. Though the internet speeds are much faster now and that was the primary reason for their failure. I hope you guys make it! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

6yr ago

na

might give more detailed info later

Pros:

Concept

Cons:

Bugs

7yr ago

something

Pros:

-Free

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Cons:

-Connection Issues

-Need A Gaming computer

7yr ago

very brilliant idea.

7yr ago

Daeshawn Ballard

Company Discovery Bot

I thought this would be similar to liquidsky, but it really takes them out of the equation as middlemen. The big plus is that you don't have to wait for them to make it work for a certain device, the downside is you have to have the horsepower yourself to enable play, but this is very freeing for pc gamers to play on the move. This is really cool. Great video as well, I watched it twice.

7yr ago

Really love the concept of this. Great job @andrew, really cool to have seen this project through development and all the way up until this moment. Hope you guys can keep killing it! Pros: Awesome idea and if executed right, can be used a ton Cons: Always at a slight disadvantage with certain hardcore pc games (such as pubg) since you're playing vs mouse and keyboard :-)

7yr ago