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

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

john_strinlai wrote: post #50

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…

> 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"

Twitch pre-roll played an ad for me on mobile in the web browser. Maybe you have an ad blocker in the browser you are using so it’s not loading the ads themselves and instead falling back to some twitch-related message?

Also I only got preroll on the first one not on the second or third. Maybe if you have an ad blocker it keeps trying prerolls more often?

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

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Post by drunkan »

Am I crazy or is this just social/financial charity roulette for streamers. Also is there not inherently an issue building the foundations of a friendship on the predicate of one person being watched and the other having to watch and potentially pay the other? If one side doesn’t like or subscribe are they friends.

The idea that people turn to streaming to either support themselves or make friends and people feel the need to help them do so is everything right and wrong with society. It’s nice people are willing to support someone else and wrong that the most supported are often the worst and really we should just support people socially and financially outside of the streaming charity system we have created. I find it all a bit mind boggling.

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

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Post by jasonlotito »

esperent wrote: post #79
victorbjorklund wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think everyone on instagram/tiktok with a public profiles tries to become an influencer?

I think that way more of them than would ever admit to it - even to themselves - want that, yes. But aside from that, nearly everyone on Instagram has followers, at least their families and friends.

Your comment (along with mmarvin's) really just shows you are making grand assumptions about Twitch and streaming on Twitch that are not based on any level of real information. That you would equate viewers to followser is silly at best. (And don't pretend you did, either, as there is NO reason to bring up IG follower counts otherwise)

> I think that way more of them than would ever admit to it - even to themselves - want that, yes.

For many reasons, they aren't what many would consider to be influencers. The ignorant might sugget that streamers are influencers, but that's, well, ignorance. Secondly, most people do it for fun. Not as a full time job. This is a hobby. And it's a fun one.

It's okay to just not comment on things you are ignorant about. It's okay.

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

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Post by tyjen »

Egalitarianism for Twitch, nice project.

A friend of mine who has streamed for years, maybe garners 3 viewers at the most, but he's absolutely terrible at viewer engagement. Despite having a dual monitor setup, it often takes him 5 minutes to recognize a single line in his chat and respond.

Growing a base followership on Twitch seems like it'd be an interesting challenge considering how saturated the market is.

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

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Post by tmtvl »

recursivecaveat wrote: post #8
ellg wrote: post #2

Check out a cool real time feed of people discovering new streamers here: https://twitchroulette.net/discover And some neat global stats around twitch streams here: https://twitchroulette.net/stats

For anyone who is curious btw: twitch will count you as your own viewer. So anyone with their own chat open in a browser (almost everyone so they can read it) will have that 1 viewer. Which is why the bottom of the distribution is so weird looking.

You could just open your twitch chat via an IRC client, then you (might?) not count as your own viewer.

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

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Post by hombre_fatal »

On the other hand, this might be like buying someone's overpriced mediocre product at the artisanal weekend market: probably better not to encourage them so they drop the delusion and do something else.

Like that time I spent $9 on some guy's 8oz "turmeric milk" and he said I was the first sale all day, so thanks for the support. Felt bad for making him think this thing has a shot.

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

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Post by novachen »

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.

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