The CometChat Blog

Shaadi.com Ditched Home-brewed In-app Chat to Scale with CometChat

Learn why Shaadi.com, India’s biggest matrimony and matchmaking platform, ditched home-brewed in-app chat to keep up with modern users

NoBrokerHood Enables Community Conversations to Improve Product Adoption

Learn how India's largest real estate tech comapny uses CometChat to engage residential communities on its app and improve product adoption.

How an Ed-tech Platform, Questt, Increased Engagement by 30% With CometChat

See how Questt is facilitating personaled and peer-to-peer learning for students in India by building in-app 1-on-1 coaching and communities with CometChat.

How Programmatis Built In-App Chat for Progressive Web Apps

See how Programmatis, a web agency and CometChat partner, built chat in progressive web apps for a community app and a mental health platform.

How CometChat Helps Media.Monks Engage 20k+ Attendees at Virtual Events Worldwide

See how Media.monks, one of the worlds largest experiential events company, ships customized chat experiences at virtual and hybrid events for high-value customers with CometChat.

New Presence & Receipts Webhooks Drive Better Business Outcomes With Even Greater Functionality & Flexibility

We’re excited to announce today the release of two new webhooks: Presence and Receipts.

Key Questions to Answer Before Launching Chat

It takes more than good implementation to drive customer engagement. Read on to find out what key questions you should ask yourself before launching chat on your website or app.

UX Challenges in Educational App Design — And How to Solve Them

‍In this guide, we'll go through the most common UX challenges when designing educational apps, and offer ways to solve for them with examples.

The ChatGPT Use Cases We're Watching Most Closely

Why is everyone so obsessed with ChatGPT? We answer that question and more including what it is, how you can use it, and what’s coming next.

A Primer on Measuring Product Adoption

If you launch an app on the app store, and no one downloads it, does it even exist? That’s the 21st-century zen riddle of the modern-day app developer. This post will cover why measuring product and user adoption is important, the challenges involved in quantifying it, and give you 15 key KPIs and metrics to use in your product adoption strategy to judge the success of your new product with formulas for each.

Firebase Chat: Pros & Cons

Firebase is one of the most beginner-friendly BaaS offerings in the market. However, here, you'll learn about its pros and cons, and why a dedicated solution may be a better choice.

50+ App Engagement Stats to Help You Scale

Are you looking to improve your app engagement? Here we present you with useful user engagement statistics to help you on your way!

The Ultimate Guide to Data Masking

In this article, you'll learn about data masking, why it's important, how to implement it, and the complexities involved.

Olá! from Web Summit in Lisbon

Earlier this month, CometChat was fortunate enough to exhibit at Web Summit, the largest technology conference in Europe. Web Summit was attended by over 70K people November 2nd - 4th in Lisbon, Portugal. Read more!

Unlock Greater Control, Extended Functionality & Easier Management With our New UI Kits

We’re excited to announce the beta release of our new, re-architected UI kits for React, Angular, Flutter, Android Java and iOS. Our industry leading UI kits have helped hundreds of customers ship customized chat quickly with minimal effort, and we’re happy to make them even better.

Getting Started With CometChat: FAQs

New to CometChat? Welcome! We're glad you're here. We often hear from folks who are eager to start implementing our in-app user-to-user communication platform, but aren't quite sure where to start. So we've compiled this list of questions we get asked a lot, in hopes it will help you ship CometChat with confidence. Check them out here, along with some additional resources we think you'll find helpful.

Secret Sauce: How Chat Increased LifeQuest's Time-In-App by Elevenfold

LifeQuest built an app that solved a real-world problem: making it easy and safe for mental health providers to connect with patients digitally in a convenient way. However, customer retention and time-in-app had been the main challenges. Eventually, they used CometChat's SDK to create the exact product fit that users wanted, helping them increase user retention sevenfold.

Highlights from CometChat's Booth at North Star Dubai

What a week at North Star Dubai! There was so much to see and do during the five-day conference, and we had a blast representing CometChat at GITEX GLOBAL, the largest tech and startup event in the world, with over 100k attendees and 4k exhibitors.