Launched late last year, the team is already seeing solid traction. They offer 24/7 “focus rooms” on Zoom, where students are meant to turn on their camera, pop on some headphones and crack open their books with up to 1,000 other students - plus a Discord community for students who want to connect after the fact, or want to live study in smaller groups. StudyStream, a team out of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 class, is bringing all of these ideas together and building it into a platform - a dedicated place online where students can study with others, share study tips and more. How do you do study group when the library is closed and we’re not supposed to be sitting around each other in stuffy rooms? While the livestream studying concept has been around for a few years, much of its uptick in popularity came with the pandemic. Don’t think anyone would tune in to that? There are dedicated YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and pre-recorded, hours-long study streams with millions of views. That’d kind of defeat the purpose, after all. There might be a bit of music, maybe some rain sounds … but, for the most part, the host won’t be talking much or trying to entertain. One part of all this is the “Study With Me” stream - which, as the name suggests, is a livestream of someone studying, meant to be kinda-sorta-watched while the viewer studies too. While it’s easy to miss if you’re a few years out of school, there’s a whole internet community built around studying and how to (hopefully) study better - one filled with Discords, subreddits and ridiculously chill music. Still can’t wrap your head around people wanting to watch others play video games on the internet? Here’s another one that might bend your brain a bit: people are watching other people study on the internet.

Study stream zoom link