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Ludicrously increase engagement on Zoom, Teams, YouTube LiveHey Product Hunter!

Thanks for stopping by. I’m Lux Narayan, CEO & co-founder at StreamAlive. I’d like to share where the idea for StreamAlive came from, and why we built it…

A few months after my last company (Unmetric) got acquired, I had a medical emergency in the family and took a break from work. This was also the time the world went into lockdown due to COVID-19. 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’s now published and 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 livestreams on Zoom, YouTube Live, and Facebook Live. 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 livestreams 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, and 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.

These observations got me 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?”

This was the beginning of StreamAlive.

I reconnected with my co-founders at my previous startup and, last year, we quietly built an alpha product for YouTube Live. Over the course of this year, we used early user feedback to improve the product and built it out for Microsoft Teams and Zoom as well. In the future, we will also be embracing Twitch, Facebook Live, Google Meet, LinkedIn Live, and pretty much every major live platform out there.

We’re proud to launch StreamAlive’s public availability today, and here on Product Hunt.

We truly believe in our mission of making large-scale conversations human again through inclusivity, and of making live events and livestreams alive. Please do try StreamAlive out, and share any feedback or comments you may have.

Thank you. Namaste!