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Beautifully powerful streaming. Astonishingly easy. DualStream brings Desktop and Mobile audiences your content at the same time, from a single patent-pending engine. DualStream Relay carries your broadcast to every platform from our servers — and if your connection blinks, disconnection protection keeps your stream alive. Native Alerts, Per-Source audio control, VTuber support, instant replay clips, cinema grade effects, pop-out multi-platform chat and so much more is all built in.
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Greetings Product Hunt! I am John, co-founder of DualStream! I am a full time live streamer on Twitch with 13 years of Partnered, full time experience on the platform with 230,000 followers under the online handle 'Tangent'. I started streaming as a passion hobby once I discovered such things existed and I was instantly hooked. Over a decade later I am still here and have experienced every up and down a creator can imagine!
In that time the content creation space has evolved and changed (And grown exponentially!) in ways many creators might not expect! One place that has never changed though? The reliance on open source OBS for operating what 99% of the streaming world utilizes.
My contributions to DualStream are in the features I feel that content creators of all sizes not just want, but absolutely need in todays ruthlessly competitive streaming space. MD can handle the technical side of things, but if you are a content creator; a dreamer just starting out with a hobby or an experienced content creator hearing a streamer's perspective is, read on my friends!
OBS is responsible for giving me and many of my peers the careers that we have had and enabled us to turn hobbies into careers. OBS was never intended for live streaming, but with a little creativity and understanding of its (confusing) settings, we have been able to fit it to what we need.
But that is one of the big challenges of OBS! It is robust in the hands of somebody who is technically experienced with the software, but to a new user it is a daunting trial and error experiment. Multi streaming has been the recent hot topic people have been trying to crack in the last few years. If you want to branch your stream from Twitch to Youtube, Tiktok, Kick, etc AND have both a vertical feed for phones and a horizontal for PC users, you have to jump through many hoops to make this possible.
OBS is capable of doing these things, but requires the use and understanding of plugins and mods, all of which are designed by good (usually, there have been security issues) intentioned users. The specific installation instructions and settings required to use many of these plugins results in frustrations and radical changes to the OBS UI. On top of that, it bloats the OBS software and makes it perform in unexpected ways depending on your PC setup. You shouldn't have to have custom docks installed and complicated modifications to your streaming software to branch your stream out in 2026.
When Twitch removed their no compete clause on multi streaming, the wild west once more opened up to creators. The push to crack the easy multi streaming code was the hot topic. For OBS, this meant bigger bloat, more plugins, worse PC performance, many crashes, and a lot of experimentation. For a new streamer you can afford to make mistakes and adapt to the multitude of glitches and crashes if you mess it up, but if you are a full time caster where your mortgage payments are reliant on you keeping your content schedule steady and professional, this can be harrowing!
Remember where I mentioned OBS has 99% of the market for users? Well, all of the innovations for multi streaming (And everything else) began flowing through OBS. The industry decided that the best way to cash in on this, was to bloat OBS even more, and design entire companies and software around utilizing the already strained OBS systems simply because it was so prevalent in the space. Virtually nobody has innovated streaming software from the ground up, too concerned about leaving the security of the confusing, bloated, and increasingly expanding software just because the assumption was that everything must be tied to OBS. The companies that did try to make their own software charge ridiculously high prices for essentially what OBS does with a somewhat more simple approach.
This is where we come in! MD has been a long time viewer of mine in my twitch channel, and witnessed me having some extreme problems with OBS. Crashes, disconnects, encoding problems, multi stream failures. At one point Twitch kept closing my connection to OBS mid cast due to a problem with OBS that would require them to patch it out, leaving me helpless for months.
He approached me and offered to build me a private connection to Twitch, my own personal streaming software because he was very kind and wanted to help me. He built me a very simple, but extremely effective piece of software that proved to be incredibly stable. He asked me if there was any features that I would like to have on it, and this turned into multi hour brainstorming sessions about the industry and tools that I need for my content.
This would eventually become DualStream. I was so floored by MD's ability to implement my requests (And I have a lot of them!) so quickly and so simply that the discussion started to steer in the direction of "If this is helping me so much, it has to be able to help others too."
In no time we had a complex streaming software that was so SIMPLE to use that required ZERO plugins or modifications and sidesteps virtually all of the pain and agony associated with trying to multi stream in multiple formats. I have been using DualStream exclusively for thousands of hours and proudly use it every day for my live streams. I entrust my financial wellbeing as a full time creator in DualStream to put my money where my mouth is. Without wanting to sound cocky, I have had more financial success in the last year of utilizing DualStream on my casts than previous years with OBS, even with the bumps in the road of developing the software and live fire testing it on my live streams.
But it isn't just the raw ability to reliably connect. It is all the fun features for interacting with audiences, manipulating your feed with special effects and on screen novelties that normally require browser sources and many plugins to use. We even have a fully customizable on screen Alerts that offer more customization that Streamlabs and Streamelements without the need of coding knowledge (And it is less taxing than using browser sources.. Though we have browser sources available as well of course!). A lot of streamers don't realize that browser sources are TAXING on your system and the reason every streaming software utilizes them is because the streaming world is chained to OBS and everyone is too scares to take the chance on innovating and those that do see even small creators as cash cows and will charge very high prices knowing that there are no better options.
So that's it! DualStream is a from the ground up approach to live streaming, designed by creators aimed specifically for creators, not merely by people trying to cash in on creators. I have not abandoned streaming to focus on DualStream, I am actively streaming 60+ hours per week and feel that if I am to properly guide DualStream in its future creator features that I will need to be on the front lines of content creation still.
If you have any questions about live streaming, the successes and failures (and risks!), or anything in the creation space as well as DualStream, please feel free to ask! Thank you for your time! - John / Tangent
twitch channel for verification: https://www.twitch.tv/tangent
The way the per-source audio control is baked right into the same panel as the stream health indicator is a really thoughtful touch. It feels like the team actually streamed before building this.
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@azizstolufz4r Appreciate that! We have really obsessed over the UX of DualStream, glad to hear you're digging it.
Pushed to twitch and tiktok at the same time with no extra setup, that alone sold me. The chat pop-out keeping everything in one view while streaming is genuinely nice.
the fact that everything from chat overlays to VTuber support lives natively in one window instead of stacking extra apps is honestly kind of a game changer, you can tell the team actually streams themselves
The relay setup genuinely saved me when my internet flickered mid-stream, no awkward goodbye screens. Love that I can finally chat with both desktop and mobile viewers without juggling windows.
Pushed a test stream to desktop and mobile at the same time and it just worked, no fiddling with OBS scenes or restream plugins. The disconnection protection saved me when my wifi hiccuped mid-broadcast, which honestly sold me on it alone.
Tried it out for a quick stream and honestly the dual desktop and mobile push just worked, no fiddling. The relay keeping the stream alive when my wifi hiccupped was kind of a lifesaver.