Scaledrone Realtime Messaging Service
Scaledrone is a realtime messaging service and platform. Send live updates, create chatrooms and collaborative tools.
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Scaledrone is a real-time messaging service that enables developers to easily add live updates, chat, collaboration, and data sync features to web and mobile apps.
🚀 Overview
Scaledrone is a managed real-time messaging platform that simplifies adding real-time capabilities like chat rooms, live notifications, user presence, and data synchronization to applications. It handles the complexities of WebSocket connections, scaling, and reliability, allowing developers to focus on building features rather than infrastructure.
The project solves the problem of building and maintaining scalable real-time backend services, which often require significant expertise in protocols like WebSockets, message brokers, and handling high concurrency. It's built for developers, indie makers, startups, and teams creating apps such as live chats, multiplayer games, collaborative tools, dashboards, and activity feeds.
Founded by Serge Herkül around 2014-2015, Scaledrone was created to enable fast prototyping of real-time JavaScript applications without spending months on backend development, as shared by the founder on Reddit.
✨ Key Features
- Pub/Sub messaging over WebSockets with fallbacks for reliable real-time communication between users, servers, and clients
- User presence tracking to show online status in chats, games, and collaborative apps
- Message history storage and retrieval for chats, scoreboards, and dashboards
- Fine-grained access control integrated with existing auth systems
- Debug console for monitoring rooms, users, and messages
- Optional: Multi-language SDKs and REST API for broad integration
🛠 Tech Stack
- Frontend: JavaScript SDK (browser), React Native examples
- Backend: Multi-language SDKs (Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, Java, Swift for iOS/Android)
- Database: Proprietary (handles message history and presence)
- Auth: Custom access manager
- Hosting: Cloud-based scalable infrastructure (Vercel-like but proprietary)
👥 Who Is This For?
This project is useful for:
- Developers who want to add real-time features without building WebSocket servers
- Teams looking for a cost-effective Pusher/Ably alternative for chats and collabs
- Indie makers building prototypes for games, dashboards, or live feeds
📸 Screenshots / Demo
- Live demo: https://www.scaledrone.com (interactive curl example and docs)
- GitHub: https://github.com/scaledrone
🔥 Project Status
- 🟢 Actively building
Last updated: 2026-03-24
❓ FAQ
Is this project free?
Freemium (Free tier: 20 concurrent connections, 100k events/day. Paid from $19/mo for higher limits.)
Is the source code available?
Client SDKs yes — https://github.com/scaledrone Core service no — proprietary SaaS
Can I contribute?
Yes — open issues/PRs on GitHub SDK repos, provide feedback via support form or email.
📬 Contact & Links
- Website: https://www.scaledrone.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/scaledrone
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/scaledrone
- Email: info@scaledrone.com
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