About
Quarrylight is a small, independent streaming service. Four friends, one product, no investors to satisfy with a pivot.
We started in 2019 after a film night where the “watch party” link died eleven minutes in and nobody could get it back without making an account on somebody’s advertising platform. So we rented a server and wrote the boring version: a room, a guest list, and a player that does not decide for you what to watch next.
There is no discovery page, no recommendation engine and no advertising. That is not a principle we wrote down for the homepage; it is simply all we have built.
The service runs on two rented servers in Amsterdam and object storage for recordings. No CDN sits in front of the video: a CDN would be cheaper and would put every viewer in somebody’s log, which defeats the point of a private room.
How we work
- Plans are paid, never advertising-funded — a free tier would have to be paid for somehow.
- Rooms are invite-only, and each guest gets their own link — forwarding one gets the second person nowhere.
- Recordings exist only if the host asks for them.
Written from Amsterdam.