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Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by dancemethis »

zahrc wrote: post #129
formalsystem wrote: post #45

twitch 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…

Network; network, network. Get known outside your stream. Discord and twitter are very good platforms for that. There are several hashtags on twitter and multiple discord servers for content creators which are highly moderated. This blog and the OPs discord has helped me a lot: https://medium.com/@jomosenpai/a-growth-hackers-guide-to-gro... there is also the subreddit /r/twitch_startup... avoid /r/twitchstreams at al…

No, Discord is not a good platform for that - or for anything for that matter. Your data and metadata is more valuable than that.

Now, actual communities in something like Matrix? Totally agree, would be very useful and insightful.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by tasogare »

stale2002 wrote: post #162
zankly wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel that this is a violation of trust. A lot of users are there to talk to another person, they're not necessarily ready or willing to be shirtless in front of tens of thousands of people. If I was on a jury and there was a lawsuit, I would award damages.

The other stranger did not consent to being situation where the rando was shirtless, though. Them being shirtless without telling the other person in advance, is harm that theyd be causing in the first place.

Consent was given implicitly by browsing chatroulette. Or so is the mainstream rhetoric used for third party cookies "consent".

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by tasogare »

formalsystem wrote: post #45

twitch 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…

Have you considered the fact that, perhaps, watching someone else playing instead of playing ourself is boring? Or that if someone has skill to understand programming, he is way more likely to make his own program instead of watching someone else code on a project he doesn’t care about? Because besides discoverability and red ocean, that’s the most likely causes.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by kawfey »

twodave wrote: post #53
formalsystem wrote: post #45

twitch 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…

It definitely takes a long view approach. A couple important aspects of building a steaming following are structure and consistency. If you give people a clear idea of what to expect from your stream and when it will be live, and if you don't make too many drastic or sudden changes to either of those variables, then those who like your content enough to make time for it will do so. If you keep making changes, show up…

In addition, the most well attended streamers also have a significant following and consistent upload schedule on YouTube. Since Twitch lacks any sort of discoverability algorithm, new streamers will always have very few to no viewers. Having content on YouTube that drives viewers to twitch is nigh a requirement to be successful on the platform.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by p1necone »

thanatropism wrote: post #84
formalsystem wrote: post #45

twitch 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…

How do you broadcast yourself coding? Is it terribly CPU (ie battery life) or network intensive?

Usually for streaming games you do need a relatively beefy CPU to stream and get good framerates in game, because running the game and capturing/encoding video at the same time is expensive. I imagine streaming a mostly static text editor/IDE would be much less of a load on the CPU though.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by mikekchar »

slashink wrote: post #68
Pfhreak wrote: post #10

As 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!

Thank you! As another small viewer base streamer, that will be quite helpful. Although, if nobody is around, I just natter on like always because there is always someone who will want to have a peek at the VODs.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by mikekchar »

arkitaip wrote: post #141
raziel2p wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a viewer I'm not sure I'd like this happening but for smaller streamers, a notification/message telling you that a viewer has joined or left might be useful.

Please don't. I would avoid certain stream if I knew they were told that I've joined/left because I do that quite frequently without saying anything and don't want to come across as an asshole.

I don't know about other streamers, but I, for one, expect people to hang out for about 5-15 minutes. I do a coding stream, so it's bound to get boring :-) I'm always amazed when people hang out for the whole stream. People are busy and it's wonderful if they just pop by to see what's going on. At least in my stream, I'm always very happy to see someone say, "Hello. Just stopping by. Can't stay!" It's incredibly gratifying.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by mikekchar »

twodave wrote: post #53
formalsystem wrote: post #45

twitch 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…

It definitely takes a long view approach. A couple important aspects of building a steaming following are structure and consistency. If you give people a clear idea of what to expect from your stream and when it will be live, and if you don't make too many drastic or sudden changes to either of those variables, then those who like your content enough to make time for it will do so. If you keep making changes, show up…

Also +1 for the consistency. I try to stream every work day at the same time and it really helps -- I mean, I'm still a backwater coding stream, but usually at least at some part of my stream I have double digits watching. If I take a few days off, though, people wander away. I'm not actually concerned about viewership (I stream for other reasons), but the other thing I've noticed is that I tend to naturally get pockets of viewers in different time zones. If I were to try to grow the stream, I would actively try to cater to 1 or 2 time zones that were popular. So try streaming at different times occasionally to see where you get the best uptake and then adjust your schedule to make it easy for those people to watch.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

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Post by mikekchar »

igrekel wrote: post #138

Every now and then I look at thi. I enjoyed watching people coding now and then, I find its a good way to improve my set up when I am on a new technology. That being said, I find it extremely difficult to find streams of people coding. Maybe that exist but I'd like something where I can pick a platform of programming language or type of dev. I know there are a few tags like this on switch but there are almost no resu…

Look in the "Science and Technology" section. It took me forever to figure that out.
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