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Re: Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum

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Post by jacquesm »

mcny wrote: post #50
jacquesm wrote: post #48

Setting up a live streaming site is easy, we did whitelabel sites for Camarades.com a long time ago. The hard part is - just like with chatroulette clones - to keep it clean (if that's your objective). If you don't keep a very good eye out you'll be running a fetish porn site in an eyeblink, and possibly an illegal one at that.

I understood the objective to be for each streamer to run their own site where only one person or group does the streaming and people just watch and interact. I think keeping the text chat clean is pretty much the same as keeping a forum (like based on discourse) clean. Thoughtful defaults and good tools for moderators should be enough for many cases. From what I've heard it is bandwidth that costs the most? Like $20…

Bandwidth is only expensive when you're a small consumer, or when you buy at places like AWS.

Re: Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum

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Post by supermdguy »

mcny wrote: post #50
jacquesm wrote: post #48

Setting up a live streaming site is easy, we did whitelabel sites for Camarades.com a long time ago. The hard part is - just like with chatroulette clones - to keep it clean (if that's your objective). If you don't keep a very good eye out you'll be running a fetish porn site in an eyeblink, and possibly an illegal one at that.

I understood the objective to be for each streamer to run their own site where only one person or group does the streaming and people just watch and interact. I think keeping the text chat clean is pretty much the same as keeping a forum (like based on discourse) clean. Thoughtful defaults and good tools for moderators should be enough for many cases. From what I've heard it is bandwidth that costs the most? Like $20…

If you're streaming through twitch, isn't it essentially 1 viewer, since you're just uploading it to their servers?

Re: Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum

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Post by the_common_man »

j4pe wrote: post #7
michaelgreen wrote: post #6

I would say if you really wanted to make this easier for streamers to use you could use helm to package up a kubernetes configuration (a bit of work) and then put it into something like google cloud launcher so you could just point and click to set this up.

I agree, one-click deploy would be the next step. Hadn't seen helm, I was debating between k8s and rancher. If possible I'd like to avoid an opinionated hosting service like Google Cloud Launcher or AWS ECS, but I recognize that it's probably necessary. The only open source one-click deploy I've seen is a church service[1], but the author of that project accomplished it by with a separate app that provisions the nece…

See cloudron.io. check out the demo.

Re: Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum

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Post by SCdF »

Kiro wrote: post #46
SCdF wrote: post #29

> And because the livestreaming platforms [obviously referring to Twitch] take an egregious chunk of the money people tip streamers, even after they've ground their way to "partnered" status. > The application has lots of external dependencies. In particular, you need: > Twitch - a Twitch account with an application registered on their developer console. I'd be really interested to see what happened if a popular stre…

I don't understand though, most streamers get their donations via third-party platforms already (streamlabs etc). Are they bypassing as well? As a matter of fact, Twitch just recently added a native ways to accept donations (bits).

Bits are a way of donating where Twitch gets a cut.

They can’t get rid of 3rd party donations because they’ve been there forever, but they can continue to incentivise every other kind of revenue except them.

Anecdotally 3rd party donations have dropped a lot over the last couple of years in relation to other forms

Re: Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum

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Post by reid »

sp332 wrote: post #26
reid wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If folks would like to serve their own live streaming video, I worked on this Docker image for my church which provides a few HLS streams from an incoming RTMP stream: https://github.com/awakening-church/awakening-nginx-rtmp/tre... You can hack on this foundation to create your own solution. Also, you can use Terraform to easily run this on Azure: https://github.com/awakening-church/live-infrastructure Or DigitalOcea…

What kind of upstream bandwidth does that take?

We need roughly around 4 Mbps for 720p. Our internet connection uplink is a bit slow, so we can’t reliably stream full HD.

Re: Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum

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Post by reid »

schnide05095 wrote: post #32
reid wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If folks would like to serve their own live streaming video, I worked on this Docker image for my church which provides a few HLS streams from an incoming RTMP stream: https://github.com/awakening-church/awakening-nginx-rtmp/tre... You can hack on this foundation to create your own solution. Also, you can use Terraform to easily run this on Azure: https://github.com/awakening-church/live-infrastructure Or DigitalOcea…

Oh hey! I know you guys! That's really cool to see stuff the Church is doing online to further technology growth and use. Way to go! I'll definitely keep this in my pocket as we move towards our own live streaming platform. Thanks for sharing!

Sweet! Thanks. I want to keep this kind of thing going. Are you in the Bay Area?
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