Dream Sports has open sourced Dream11’s proven tech stack under HorizonOS.
Dream Sports is taking a bold step into open source with its new brand, Horizon, making Dream11’s technology stack accessible to startups, MSMEs, and the global developer community. The first offering, HorizonOS, provides developers with tools to build, test, and deploy applications faster, alongside platforms that allow apps to run and be managed at scale.
Startups across ecommerce, fintech, and health-tech sectors can leverage HorizonOS, which will initially be free to use. The company is exploring monetisation possibilities for the future, including managed services, dual licensing models, and custom extensions.
Amit Garde, CEO at Horizon, said: “Some customers would want to take the software and run it themselves. Others would want the software to be managed by the experts who built it (the developer team at Horizon); then they will pay for the convenience of someone else managing and operating the software. There are also certain kinds of dual licensing models, where some custom extensions or specifications could be done. So, there are a variety of ways in which potentially it’s monetisable later.”
Dream11’s tech stack was developed to manage over 300 million users, 16 million concurrent users, and up to 100,000 transactions per second, reflecting its robustness for scaling startups. Garde added: “This software organically came out of the unique problems we had to solve for. It is not a vanity project… They may have been a little unique or extreme in Dream11’s scale, but they are very concrete problems that almost any startup or scaling startup is likely to encounter.”
Following the real-money gaming ban in India, Dream Sports retained its workforce and pivoted to streaming (FanCode) and financial services (Dream Money). Horizon’s team of 200 engineers, formerly part of Dream11, is now evaluating how the stack can benefit startups, with future adoption potentially signalling monetisation opportunities.
