Private watch parties, by invite only

What makes a watch room actually private?

Most "private" watch parties on big platforms are private only in the sense that you choose who to invite. The platform itself still sees the entire stream, knows who's in the room, and often keeps the recording or transcript. That is a different threat model than what people usually mean by private.

A private watch room, in our definition, has three properties: the room is unlisted and reachable only via an invite link, the media never touches a third-party server, and nothing about the contents of the session is logged. YourStreamshare is built around all three at once.

How invite-only rooms work

Each room has a random slug — something like quiet-falcon-72 — that nobody can guess. There is no list of rooms, no search, no public landing page for an active room. The only way in is through the invite link.

Hosts also get a host token tied to that room. The token is what unlocks playback control and host-only actions like ending the session. If you only have the invite link, you join as a viewer.

What we don't store

We deliberately keep what we know about your room as small as possible:

• No video or screen content— Streams are peer-to-peer. We never see them.
• No chat history beyond the session— Messages live in the room and are gone when it ends.
• No recording— There is no record button. There is no record-on-server feature for staff.
• No watch analytics— We don't track what you watched, how long, or with whom.

Encrypted by default

WebRTC media is encrypted with DTLS-SRTP between peers. The encryption keys are negotiated directly between participants and never shared with our backend. Even if our infrastructure were compromised, an attacker would have no way to decrypt past sessions because there is nothing to decrypt — the bytes never went through us.

We also keep signaling and media strictly separate. Signaling is the part that helps your devices find each other; it is short-lived metadata, not content. Media is the part you actually care about, and it stays peer-to-peer.

When a private room is the right call

If you're watching anything you wouldn't want a stranger or an algorithm to log — a personal video, a confidential recording, a draft of a film, a sensitive client demo — a private peer-to-peer room is a much closer match to your expectations than a generic video call or a public watch-party platform.

Even for casual movie nights, defaulting to a private room is just kinder to your guests. They don't need to make an account or hand over data to a platform they don't trust.