StreamAlive App for Zoom — Just put it in the chat

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?

@luxnarayan interesting idea! Are you building this for other large scale video conferencing apps (meet etc)? Great launch!

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

I love that this tool reads the native chat and turns it into real time visual feedback. It's a great way to keep the audience engaged and involved.

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?

Wow! This looks super cool and useful! I can't wait to try it. Will you be integrating this into other platforms as well? Google Meets?

Congrats on the launch. It looks really cool - Does it work equally well on live-streaming platforms like Twitch? Also, I saw it supports multiple meeting platforms so why did you say it's "For Zoom" in your title? Does it work best with Zoom and has limited features on the other platforms?

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!

This sounds really nice. We have a product where content creators are hosting webinars for online learning through zoom, i will pitch this to them, maybe some of then will love it, i know i do! This will definitely help increase engagement from meeting participants!

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.

Wow, this is such a great addition to Zoom. It feels like a lot of thought has been put into what features to develop. Every feature seems pretty useful. One question, do you plan to do the same for Google Meets? That's a pretty big market too. Anyways, loved the product and all the best for the launch!

I wish we had this when pandemic started. We wasted hours finding a topic to gather people around as an icebreaker, creating new games to get out of the ordinary, trying to make people comfortable while sharing ideas with strangers. StreamAlive solves them all at a glance! I don't know if it currently is capable but it feels like next step is instantly building games like competitions based on meeting's expectations. Good job!

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

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...

🚀 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.

Super cool product to make presentation and call much livelier and much more interactive. I find it particularly useful for remote teams.

Gratz on the launch, really liked it. is it just for Zoom or you are planning to add other platforms like Meets or Teams or twitch? also where can I see the Pro details and pricing?

This could also be very useful for online teaching. I really like the feature with the polls within the chat.

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!