Hey Product Hunter! Thanks for stopping by. I’m Lux Narayan, CEO & co-founder at StreamAlive. I’d like to share how StreamAlive was an accidental side-track from a different journey… In 2020, for various reasons including a a medical emergency in the family, I took a break from work. This was around the time the world went into lockdown due to Covid. It was a surreal time to say the very least. I used my newfound “free time” to write a book that had been in my head and in many scattered digital notes for many years. It was published in 2021, and is called “Name, Place, Animal, Thing: An Inspiring Fable for Grown-Ups about Hope, Positivity, and Living your Best Life”. At that time, I didn’t know the first thing about writing, publishing, and marketing a book. So, to learn these skills, I ended up attending six online classes delivered over 56 live sessions on Zoom, YouTube Live, and Facebook Live. Mostly on Zoom. Across all of these, I noticed some recurring patterns… The class sizes ranged from 20 to 1200 but the one constant in all of these sessions was that the chat often went by faster than the presenters could keep pace. As a result, 95% of the audience was usually ignored and as a consequence, disengaged. This was especially true when the presenter asked questions like Where are you joining us from?” or “What is your #1 takeaway from today?” People enthusiastically responded, only to be ignored! In a few instances, the presenter would try to encourage the audience to “participate” by installing an app, entering a code at another website, or doing other forms of browser gymnastics. For every person who correctly followed these instructions, five others would be thoroughly confused, and four others would simply enter their answers directly in the native chat itself- on Zoom, YouTube Live, etc. In short, people were super active on the chat. Nevertheless, they were disengaged. This got us thinking: Wouldn’t it be great to have a product that could simply read the native chat on the platform of choice and translate it into a real-time, context-aware, visual “voice of the audience?” Could we move sessions from talk-talk-talk-talk to talk-listen-talk-listen? This was the beginning of StreamAlive. I reconnected with my co-founders and ex-colleagues at our previous startup and we got together on a new adventure. StreamAlive now supports many live session platforms, and the vision is to support pretty much every major live platform out there. For many of these, we will launch bespoke apps to make it even easier for our users. The first of these is our app on Zoom. Do give it a try. I promise your sessions won’t be the same again. We truly believe in what it says on our company T Shirts: ” Connect & Interact & Include & Engage.” (fun fact, it doesn’t have a logo in the front of teh shirt) We believe in our mission of making large-scale conversations human again through inclusivity, and of making live events and livestreams alive. Please share any feedback or comments you may have. Thank you. Namaste!

I understand the solution. But would be nice to understand what problem you are solving with this. Who is the customer here? In what scenario do you envision people using this?

all the best for the product. looks interesting

I’ve been using Stream Alive to engage students and webinar participants and it’s truly amazing. It’s a proven app with thoughtful features and support! Go go go!!!!

Hey Lux! It's impressive how you're changing meeting experiences. I'm sure every team will take the most of it. Congrats on the launch and wish you all the best on this journey! cheers

Great way to make otherwise boring zoom meetings interactive. I'm sure this will keep people more engaged in the discussion than simply talking :) Congrats on the launch!

Could only imagine how interactive session can be with this! Added to my PH collection. Congratulation to the team on the launch.

This tool sounds awesome for remote work!

I’ve used StreamAlive on multiple events and loved it tremendously. It gives me engagement, intelligent chat and a data bank I can use to analyse and make more profit from. Go from dead digital meetings to the most interactive live chat

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🚀 Excited to launch the StreamAlive app in Zoom! And grateful to the support from the Zoom apps team. We speak to all our users all the time, and they want a much more seamless experience for their live sessions in Zoom. Which led us to focus resources on building a StreamAlive app in Zoom. I want to thank our users for all the feedback and support always. "Connect, Interact, Engage and Include" is our mantra and it is what we want our users to experience during their live sessions in Zoom using the StreamAlive app 🤝 Thank you.

Cool, more human and engaging!

Great idea for a product! Congrats on the launch StreamAlive team 👏

Fantastic launch, Lux! How does StreamAlive handle large volumes of live chat data without performance issues? Congrats to the whole team!

Really excited to get this launch out the door. This is our first app created for a third-party platform and we're so happy to have had the support of the Zoom ecosystem to make it happen. There are other polling apps available for Zoom, but StreamAlive is the only app that brings together polls, word clouds, spinner wheels, interactive maps, and other visual interactions. It's also the only app that lets your audience participate from the chat. It couldn't be any easier to use. Any time your audience asks a question, the AI picks it up and curates it in a question bank so no one gets ignored. How many times have you had a question missed because you put it in the chat instead of the Q&A box? See what StreamAlive can do for your Zoom meetings and events: https://www.streamalive.com/solu...

Congratulations on the launch Lux, Rishikesh and team 😊🙌

Hey Product Hunters, We're so excited to be sharing the StreamAlive app for Zoom with you! We're on a mission to transform virtual events from dull to delightful, so if you're ready to inject some serious fun and engagement into your Zoom meetings, please give StreamAlive a try. We're confident it'll be a game-changer. We inject interactivity into your virtual events: Polls, quizzes, word clouds, spinner wheels–it's all right there from the chat stream. StreamAlive is designed to boost engagement and turn passive attendees into active participants. So, your large-scale conversations can feel human again. Please share your thoughts, suggestions, and ideas–we're all ears!

I rarely do a class without StreamAlive. These are in-person classes. StreamAlive helps me include students who are too shy to speak up, and those who are too cool to ask a question

Hi Lux, What an inspiring journey you've had! StreamAlive sounds like a game-changer for live sessions on Zoom. How has the feedback been from early users so far?

It's incredible how many live streaming features you got here! It's funny that YouTube live doesn't have some of these features. For folks who run live sessions on Zoom, this would make it super engaging and fun for the participants! Honestly, maybe streamers should try using this app to live stream! This would be very cool for schools or kids, because they would love this stuff (but they sure would mess with you). Congrats @luxnarayan and team! PS: I think your landing page video is not playing for some reason.