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childstream

Stream games from a second Windows desktop while you keep using your PC - via Windows child sessions + Sunshine

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GITHUB · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 59 upvotes (top 14%) · 4 views

Niche: remote desktop and control software · 115 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▲ +31% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Creating isolated multi-user Windows child sessions for hardware-accelerated game streaming requires undocumented Windows internal APIs, graphics driver hook injection, and virtual display drivers.

What it would actually take: The system requires leveraging undocumented Windows Remote Desktop / Terminal Services APIs (child sessions / session isolation) combined with virtual display drivers (IddCx) and audio loopbacks. It integrates with Sunshine/Moonlight via custom NVENC/AMF video capture hooks that target specific session IDs without disrupting the active interactive console session. Achieving this demands deep Windows internals, WDDM graphics driver model, and low-latency C++ systems expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 338 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #48 of 339 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.

  • carafe · github · 2026-10-08 · 159 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Afterhours · github · 2026-09-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • gamethrust-desktop · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Bridgeplay · github · 2026-10-20 · 411 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Highball · hn · 2026-08-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • huedra · github · 2026-10-31 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • OrbisDesk · github · 2026-11-07 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • clearstream · github · 2026-10-21 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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