How it works — step by step
Your part is short. Your Muse does the work; this hub is where you watch it, approve it, and answer the rare question only you can answer.
1. Create your account (under 2 minutes)
Sign up with your email and a ClipSidekick password (it works only here — we will never ask for any other password, anywhere). Tell us your brand name, the handle you want, your console, and how many clips a day you want.
2. Pay
$99 setup + $29/month — the only required spend. Everything else on the site unlocks. Muse is free to start (it has a free plan), the platforms are free, and Lightstream’s free tier is $0; paid upgrades are optional, only if you want them. In test mode, checkout runs in sandbox — no real charge.
3. Connect your Muse
If you already have Muse, you connect it. If not, we guide you to create your own Muse account first — it becomes your login and your operator. The setup then loads itself into your Muse automatically. There is nothing to copy, paste, or configure, and the instructions are never shown or handed out — they live on our side and are fed to your Muse one step at a time.
4. Answer the intake questions
Your Muse asks a short set of questions, one at a time — your brand email (bring one you want to use, or say the word and one gets created together with you as the very first step of the setup, with your Muse guiding), whether you already have a Facebook Page or YouTube channel (and if so, which one to post on), your handle choices, and when you’re reachable. Everything is checked and settled before the run starts, so the run doesn’t stall halfway.
5. Your channels stand up
Your Muse creates or connects your Facebook Page, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch (with past broadcasts saved — that’s where clips come from), and Pinterest, and verifies each one actually exists before moving on. Codes sent to your brand inbox are read by your Muse itself; anything that must go to your phone is your tap, with exact steps.
6. Lightstream + your console (one guided computer session)
Lightstream only works in a regular computer browser, so this one part is a guided session with you at a computer: connect Twitch, YouTube, and your Facebook Page (never your personal timeline), turn every destination on, and set the best quality your setup supports. Then, on your Xbox: allow live streaming and set the destination to Lightstream.
7. Test stream — verified
You go live for a few minutes. Your Muse confirms the stream actually landed on Twitch and YouTube, that the replay was saved, and what quality really arrived. Setup counts as done only when the stream is seen in the right places.
8. Daily clips, your approvals, your digest
From then on your Muse checks your replays daily, builds clip batches, and waits for your one-tap approval before anything posts. Every post is verified with a real link. Each day you get a short digest: what posted, what it learned, what it fixed, and — at most once a day — a question that genuinely needs your call, with a recommended answer.