For 38 years your PowerPoint slides have been talking to your audience. Now it's time for them to listen.
StreamAlive lets you add all kinds of interactions from polls, word clouds, interactive maps, quizzes, and spinner wheels DIRECTLY inside your existing PowerPoint slides.
The AI can even read your slides and instantly create interactions for you.
It has the power to make Teams meetings fun. It also works on Zoom, Google Meet, on stage, or anywhere else you present your PowerPoint slides.
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For 38 years your PowerPoint slides have been talking to your audience. Now it's time for them to listen.
Using nothing but the chat in Teams, Zoom or any other meeting platform, your audience can author and update your slides in real-time.
Add all kinds of interactions from polls, word clouds, interactive maps, quizzes, and spinner wheels DIRECTLY inside your existing PowerPoint slides.
Note: works with PowerPoint v16.100 and above.
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@ranjanrishikesh I feel like there's a star wars meme here where I say "except the fun and entertaining weekly newsletter I write, right?"
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Hi Product Hunter!
Thanks for taking a look at our latest product.
I'm Lux Narayan, CEO and co-founder at StreamAlive. I'd like to share a little bit about our journey to make your PowerPoint slides interactive.
For that, we have to go back 38 years when Robert Gaskin and his team released the first version of PowerPoint. Ever since then PowerPoint has been used to talk to audiences online and offline.
At StreamAlive our mission is to help unmute the audience. We started with chat-powered interactions in live sessions, then built the StreamAlive app for Zoom to make it more seamless, and then created a presentation builder so you could create your slides and interactions as if you were creating a presentation deck.
The more we spoke to users the more we realized that we were trying to force our app on their existing workflow. While everyone loved how easy it was to run chat-powered interactions, there was an element of friction because 80% of the world still presents on PowerPoint.
Our users found that they were constantly switching context from their PowerPoint slides to the interaction slides, and back again. As most people know, presenting is a very stressful job, even more so when it's done virtually where any number of technical challenges can trip you up.
We wanted to give people fewer plates to spin during their presentation and that meant figuring out how to bring StreamAlive's interactions INSIDE an existing PowerPoint deck.
The journey has been long (over 6 months in development) and full of setbacks, but we're finally ready to show the world what we've built.
After 38 years it's finally time for your PowerPoint slides to listen to what the audience has to say. We hope you try it out and discover that their is life after death by PowerPoint.
A huge shoutout to the StreamAlive team and all the beta-testers who have patiently tested our new add-in for PowerPoint and reported bugs and offered ideas on how to make it better.
Looking forward to hearing any feedback or comments that you many have.
Thank you.
Namaste! 🙏🏽
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What does that even mean?
Unlike other audience engagement tools you might be familiar with, your audience uses the chat in your meeting or streaming platform to participate.
When you run a StreamAlive poll in your PowerPoint slide, your audience doesn't look at a second screen or hunt for the voting window. They just type in the meeting or streaming chat, 1, 2, or 3, etc.
That's it.
Try it out in the sandbox here: https://sandbox.streamalive.com/sandbox1?platform=zoom&interaction=poll-1
When you run a word cloud in your PowerPoint slide, your audience types their answer in the meeting or streaming chat.
That's it.
Try it out in the sandbox here: https://sandbox.streamalive.com/sandbox1?platform=zoom&interaction=wordcloud-1
When you want to run a spinner wheel in your PowerPoint slide, StreamAlive automatically adds everyone from the chat to the spinner wheel. (You can also manually upload a list of people if you're old skool).
That's it.
Try it out in the sandbox here: https://sandbox.streamalive.com/sandbox1?platform=zoom&interaction=wheel-1
When you want to capture all the audience questions and show them on your PowerPoint slide, just tell your audience to type their question in the meeting or streaming chat. No special Q&A boxes or special characters to denote a question.
That's it.
Try it out in the sandbox here: https://sandbox.streamalive.com/sandbox1?platform=zoom&interaction=quick-question-1
When you want to run a quiz in your PowerPoint presentation, your audience just types 1, 2, or 3, etc. in the chat for their chosen answer. Points are awarded for the right answer and speed. Leaderboards track who's winning.
That's it.
StreamAlive is an audience engagement platform, but different to anything you have seen before.
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@peterclaridge that looks promising, and there are so many use cases that come to mind. Cool product!
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@michael_vavilov Thanks, Michael!
This could be a game-changer for boring meetings.What’s the most surprising use case you’ve seen so far — team meetings, classrooms, or live events?
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@pany_ai The most surprising one was from a couple of years ago when we were still figuring out who our ICP was. Airrack did a live ping pong tournament on YouTube Live and used StreamAlive to process the comments as the audience voted on what forfeits the players had to do:
https://youtu.be/CwNSIkmfOjg?si=sn0Slbkbp7higZ22
@peterclaridge Haha that’s a great example — letting the audience decide the forfeits is next level engagement.
Curious if those kinds of playful interactions are now making their way into Teams meetings or workshops too?
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@pany_ai Yes, absolutely. Teams are having a lot of fun with the interactive map (Magic Maps) and the emoji word clouds in their all-hands and quarterly meetings!
@peterclaridge Thanks for your reply. That makes a lot of sense 👍 visual + low-effort interactions like Magic Maps and emoji word clouds are perfect for all-hands.
@StreamAlive - Interactive PPT slides Clever inversion of the engagement problem - keeping interactions inside native chat instead of forcing a second screen is the kind of product thinking I respect.
My question: as presenters integrate this into their workflow, what's the biggest blocker you're seeing for adoption - is it friction in the PowerPoint UX itself, or more about folks not knowing this exists? Also curious how you're thinking about the data layer - are teams wanting to capture and analyze interaction patterns across presentations for insights?
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@imraju That's a great question! Unfortunately there's no badge to award for "great question".
The biggest point of friction that we're seeing right now is people's mental model of how an audience engagement platform "should" work. We've had over a decade of "audience, please scan this QR code, download the app, enter this code, and vote in the poll about what you had for breakfast".*
StreamAlive is far, far easier for your participants.
All your audience has to do is type their responses in the meeting or streaming chat to participate. StreamAlive reads the chat and visualizes your poll, word cloud, or other interaction in your PowerPoint slide.
This is so new and revolutionary that people can't quite wrap their head around it (hence my earlier comment here about being powered by the chat).
I did a customer call the other day where they accused us (in a nice way) of building the most complicated engagement tool in history. When I dug in to what they had done, they assumed StreamAlive worked like "every other engagement tool" and they were searching for the QR code or link to share with their audience. In the end they shared their profile link and 30 employees all signed up for a StreamAlive account and then got confused why they still couldn't access the interactions.
When I showed them how StreamAlive actually works I had to pick their jaws up from the floor. They were just stunned. And absolutely mortified. They couldn't believe how easy it was and how badly they had misunderstood how it works (because their mental model could only handle engagement being done through QR codes and links).
They are now a happy user :)
So biggest challenge isn't technical or legal. It's pre-existing ideas on how an engagement tool "should" work.
*Shamelessly stolen word for word from @luxnarayan
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@imraju @peterclaridge It's not stealing if you report it yourself. I think. Raju - thanks for the Qs. Biggest challenge is letting people know it exists. Then, as Peter said, an onboarding challenge is cueing the chat-powered MO instead of second-screens. We have analytics ona session basis. Plans afoot are to capture insights daisy chained across sessions
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I can imagine how students and schools could benefit from this and make the learning process way effective. Do you collab also with some universities or so?
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@busmark_w_nika Yes, we do! We have Tatiana who uses it with her class at Rutgers - https://www.streamalive.com/customer-stories/tatiana-rodriguez
And Manish Agarwal who uses it in his classes https://www.streamalive.com/customer-stories/manish-agarwal
They both say the same thing: StreamAlive helps give a voice to the too shy to speak and too cool to speak, so that the classes can be inclusive, interactive and engaging.
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@busmark_w_nika @peterclaridge To add...
Stanford's Global Sustainability Challenge recently used StreamAlive and had great things to say!
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@busmark_w_nika @peterclaridge @luxnarayan Also, Brown University is adding StreamAlive as a vendor
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@peterclaridge @luxnarayan @lakyntina_l_l Happy to see that your product is so widespread. Didn't know about it. Kudos! :)
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@peterclaridge Cool, you even have more people like this! That's awesome!
Hi, do you plan on expanding the interaction library in the future? or what areas of the tool other than this you plan on improvising further?
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@tania_j Hi Tania, there are currently 12 different interactions that are powered by the chat already available. At the moment we can only think of variations of those interactions instead of completely new ones. So more like a different visualization of an existing interaction.
For example the spinner wheel could be varied by just picking a name out of the hat or it could be a slot machine type visualization.
If you have ideas on what other chat-powered interactions you'd like to see, we'd love to hear it!
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@tania_j we will be building a lot more features to our Quizzes. Coming soon.
@peterclaridge an idea that you guys can look into is to have a matchmaker board that pairs people randomly for quick discussions or group activities since we, often, create groups or pairs for team building activities and the pairing would seem fair this way.
Another idea (now this can be tricky) is to have an energy meter check where chat responses fill a bar showing the room’s energy or confidence level. Usually what i noticed is people lose energy if the duration of the meeting is long and this can simply embarrass uninterested people (haha).
I hope it helps.