Isn’t this already there and called Omegle?
Did you miss the Twitch part?
Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
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Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#152I made a similar site as part of a hackathon at Twitch: https://twitchraids.com The idea is to raid random channels together with everyone on the site. Channels are randomly selected and rotate every 5 minutes, and the channel selection function gives preference to smaller streamers. Users vote on which channel to raid next.
This is interesting because you can incentivise people to go to other streams by offering them multipliers for every raid they join (or something). You'd have a network of people who are watching ads for the chance of having their ad watched!
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#153As someone who has periodically streamed, consider dropping a few chat messages when you land. Twitch's metrics are slow to update and it is not always clear when someone is watching.
Hello! I work on the video platform @ twitch. We’ve been working a lot on that issue. Viewer count numbers should be significantly faster today and will get even more responsive soon!
Oh joy, more background JavaScript
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
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#155twitch is one of the platforms where I feel like I've struggled the most to get viewers. just playing my main game like Dota wasn't too productive since I'm not a pro or super hot so my value proposition there isn't too compelling. Instead I've been trying to focus more on streaming myself programming and learning new scientific or game programming libraries and have been enjoying it quite a bit. My viewer count is v…
You might want to consider some up and coming platforms where the competition is less intense, for now. On our platform, Spoon, if you stream for an hour you will definitely get listeners (it's audio only though). I think that dynamic changes as the platform grows.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#156I made a similar site as part of a hackathon at Twitch: https://twitchraids.com The idea is to raid random channels together with everyone on the site. Channels are randomly selected and rotate every 5 minutes, and the channel selection function gives preference to smaller streamers. Users vote on which channel to raid next.
This is awesome. I imagine that you get some neat reactions when a streamer gets a ton of attention they weren't expecting.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
In these confusing times I sometimes tend to forget that being a normie is a good thing.
That's not the definition of 'normie' I'm familiar with. In fact, I'd expect normies to be the ones showing dongs.
Normie means unremarkable middle-of-the-road as far as I know.
Showing dongs in anonymous video chats is not what I'd expect from a normie.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#158I'm guessing my suggestion is also buried by about 110 comments by now, but the stream in the UX is far too small and makes the actual stream far less viewable than the chat. A viewer doesn't view for the chat, he views for the stream, the chat's a bonus. To swap the expectation is unrealistic. Twitch.tv isn't a chatting program.
this was an issue with firefox and I pushed a css fix, sorry about that
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea, discord can detect dicks. I'm guessing that the hotdog/no hotdog algorithm is advanced enough by now.
Really? I've never been in a group where one is sent, does it block it or just mark it as NSFW?
There might be a setting for the room, I've seen it marked as explicit content prevented from uploading and it doesn't show the picture.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#160As someone who has periodically streamed, consider dropping a few chat messages when you land. Twitch's metrics are slow to update and it is not always clear when someone is watching.
Hello! I work on the video platform @ twitch. We’ve been working a lot on that issue. Viewer count numbers should be significantly faster today and will get even more responsive soon!
Having spent a lot of time working on making the backend compute this with very low latency, you wouldn't believe how happy finally seeing this become a reality on the actual site would make me. :)
Thank you /a lot/ for working on this!