2021
Three friends, one shared Google Doc, and a frustration with paying for TV that didn’t work. iBostreaming registered in Tallinn, Estonia.
About us
A small team building one IPTV service that actually works.
We started iBostreaming because we were the customers. We paid for cable, paid for sport apps, paid for Netflix, and still missed half the things we wanted to watch. So we built the thing we wished existed.
How it started
We were three people paying for five things and still missing the match.
The idea wasn’t original. It came out of a WhatsApp group in March 2021. Three of us were complaining about the same thing — paying $200 a month for cable, Netflix, Disney+, a sports app, and somehow still hunting for the channel when the kickoff happened.
One of us was an expat in Berlin who couldn’t watch his home news. One had four kids who wanted four different shows at the same time. The third was tired of paying for fifty things every month and not finishing any of them. So we built a service that did all of it from one login. That’s the whole story.
We registered iBostreaming as a private limited company in Estonia in March 2021 (because that’s where the e-Residency made it fastest, not because of any tax cleverness — we pay tax there). Within six months we had a hundred customers, most of them friends and friends of friends. We answered every support ticket ourselves.
Five years later, we still answer most of them ourselves.
The short version
Five years, briefly.
2022
First 1,000 customers. Most of them came from a single Reddit thread in r/cordcutters that we didn’t plant. We still owe whoever started it.
2023
Moved infrastructure to multi-server failover after one too many support tickets during a Champions League final. Set the bar at “no freezing during the goal” — we hold ourselves to it now.
2024
Crossed 5,000 households. Hired our first full-time support person who isn’t a founder. Added crypto payments because customers in three different countries kept asking.
2025
8 people on the team. Customers in 142 countries. Refund rate stays under 2%.
2026
Preparing for the World Cup. Building extra server capacity for what will probably be the busiest streaming month in our history.
The people
Three of us started it. Eight of us run it.
Most of us still answer customer tickets. If you email support, there’s a real chance one of these three will reply.
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Adrien Maréchal
Co-founder · Operations
Former network engineer. Spent ten years at a European telco before getting tired of the bureaucracy. Handles servers, contracts and the boring parts of running a company.
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Lina Vásquez
Co-founder · Customer Support
Was the third customer we ever had. Ran our Discord for free for six months before we asked her to join properly. Speaks four languages and answers most of the support tickets herself.
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Tobias Sandström
Engineering
Writes the code that keeps streams from freezing. Lives in Lisbon. Builds his own NAS at home for fun, which tells you exactly the kind of person you want maintaining your stream.
Plain facts
The boring bits, in case you need them.
- Company
- iBostreaming OÜ
- Registered
- Tallinn, Estonia · March 2021 · Reg. nr. 16289437
- Engineering
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Customer support
- Across 8 European time zones · 24/7 cover
- Team size
- 8 full-time
- Households served
- 12,400+ across 150+ countries
- Refund rate
- Under 2% over the last 12 months
- Payments
- Stripe (cards), PayPal, Bitcoin, USDT
- Contact
- [email protected]
- Disclosure
- iBostreaming is a reseller of licensed IPTV content. We do not host or distribute any content ourselves. The infrastructure we run is a managed access layer to the broadcasts our partners are licensed to carry.
That’s us. Want to try the service?
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