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Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

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Post by cortesoft »

ellg wrote: post #20
operatingthetan wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean if they are streaming to no clients, is there actually video being transmitted?

youre still encoding to like, 4 different formats and pushing bytes to a cdn for 80k+ streams in real time. I think the actual serving of hls chunks is the cheap part

Maybe they just don’t do that if you don’t have any streamers.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

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Post by vasco »

flowgrammer wrote: post #22

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.

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?

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.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

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Post by bobsmooth »

vasco wrote: post #43
flowgrammer wrote: post #22

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.

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? 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 does having a family have to do with anything?

Presumably that at least one of their family members would be pity watching.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

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Post by john_strinlai »

reddozen wrote: post #14

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>Dan Clancy is totally ok with his contracted streamers constantly live streaming terrorist training videos

who is streaming terrorist videos?

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 some of the biggest streamers on the platform and have no idea what you are referencing.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

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Post by sanswork »

flowgrammer wrote: post #22

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.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

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Post by john_strinlai »

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.

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.

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.

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.

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