Great idea. One of my saddest projects was making a site to help Twitch streamers get sponsorship for playing games. You automatically got picked if your view count was high enough. I saw thousands of people streaming on Twitch by themselves for weeks with no viewers whatsoever. Surely many of them had families and partners, but I'm also sure many did not.
I used to live code on Twitch regularly with zero viewers and it didn't really bother me. It forced me to actively talk through my decision making processes just by streaming which slowed me down but was often useful. I'm not sure what the family/partners part is about, I certainly had both while streaming.
Maybe I'm naive, but my sense is not everyone streaming on Twitch is trying to make a career out of it. Even for those that are -- everyone starts somewhere. Hopefully those that aren't successful on first brush notice and realize that it takes more than simply starting a stream to build a sticky audience.<p>Also, there are many people out there who lead fulfilling lives without families and partners. Either way, I don't think you should pity people so readily. At best it's somewhat condescending and missing much of the complexity and nuance of what it is to be a human person
What does having a family have to do with anything? I see many people with different hobbies that aren't "successful", do you also think if they have families or not?<p>I don't even get the implications, presumably it'd be worse to stream all day if you have a family you're neglecting, but even that is making wild assumptions.
What about <a href="https://nobody.live/" rel="nofollow">https://nobody.live/</a>?
Leads me to discover: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/chat_loadtest_01" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitch.tv/chat_loadtest_01</a> ... neat!
also neat! never heard of it, seems like we have a bit different ways about browsing similar data. very cool site
these types of projects are always fun, whether it is the old youtube videos with no views, or the few other twitch ones like this i have seen. thanks for sharing it.<p>it would be great to be able to filter by language, but i have no idea if twitch exposes that information or if it would have to be some hack with the title/game/etc data.<p>and, probably not your fault, but, probably 1/2 of the spins give me a 10-second pre-roll. weirdly, it isnt an advert, but some twitch-related thing i have never seen that says stuff like "preparing the stream" and "an intern stepped on a wire while your stream was setting up". i am signed in, so not sure what is going on there.<p>anyways, spun the wheel for awhile and had fun talking with a few people. crazy amount of people still playing call of duty, i had no idea.
Perhaps you can add a check to see if the stream is behind a login/agegate? I pushed the random button and got a stream that I was locked out of.
Very nice. Currently on mobile where it mostly works in landscape. (Unusable in portrait). Will check it out on desktop later.<p>Love the idea of making someone's day.
really fun! already found an MLB stream, someone streaming Age of Empires 1 no talking and chat in emote mode, someone going absolutely crazy on a racing game I think multi-streaming with their audience primarily on YT. and now I'm on a BG3 playthrough I'm pretty sure.
Old discussion has lots of comments too <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114103">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114103</a>
Similar in spirit to IMG_0001⁰, IMG_0416¹, and astronaut.io² for YouTube but live on Twitch!<p>⁰<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308547">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308547</a><p>¹<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314547">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314547</a><p>²<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772</a>
Great concept! Brought me to a girl playing COD. She only has me as a viewer.<p>She thanked me so I stayed for a while lol
Check out a cool real time feed of people discovering new streamers here: <a href="https://twitchroulette.net/discover" rel="nofollow">https://twitchroulette.net/discover</a><p>And some neat global stats around twitch streams here: <a href="https://twitchroulette.net/stats" rel="nofollow">https://twitchroulette.net/stats</a>
Great idea for when you bored and want to discover new twitch channels.
Just a suggestion: it would be better if you can ask the user what their preference is and then suggest accordingly.
There are some soundcloud and mixcloud versions that might need inventing ...cool concept!
Awesome haha, they look so shocked when you send a message, and then I get embarrassed and spin again
Cool concept! Discovery is the hardest part for small streamers — most viewers only see the top channels and never scroll down. The real-time stats breakdown sounds interesting.
my first one was junk essentially. I don't even think the host was there.
They said they were streaming music videos, which is already questionable.
Instead they were streaming an interview with a music artist.
Kind reminder that Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is a monster of a company. Check out Owncast and Peertube for alternatives.
i am actually even more impressed that you got this to front page
this is pretty dope !!<p>was the only viewer to some guy playing far cry
Can we make a version for YouTube as well? I'd love to be discovered haha
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><i>Dan Clancy is totally ok with his contracted streamers constantly live streaming terrorist training videos</i><p>who is streaming terrorist videos?<p>you say it like everyone is, but i have never seen one myself. not that i watch all of the big streamers, but i definitely watch <i>some</i> of the biggest streamers on the platform and have no idea what you are referencing.
no comment on the political bits, but the fact that 80% of twitch is streaming to themselves cant be cheap to run<p>I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process
I think there's a big "control premium" attached to these things. Not necessarily even that they <i>will</i> manipulate and censor rampantly, but that they <i>could</i>, I think the market prices highly.
Twitch gets a big cut of individual creators’ subs, and I’d bet most people that stream also sub to other channels. Keeping people in the ecosystem is probably worth it, even if there’s some amount of “freeloading”.
I mean if they are streaming to no clients, is there actually video being transmitted?
do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?
honestly not sure, but it would explain how they can keep it running
It's important that they have a proper budget and pay near the sticker price that way they can play accounting games to make Twitch look unprofitable.
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