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.
@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?
The interactive slides seems with tiles seems like a nice idea. I think it will become more ueseful with more features and (my wet dream) - an AI agent for GSlides or PP to write your texts with you.
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?
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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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.
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).
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.
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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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?
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.
@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?