I just listened to a little kid play Fortnite while I did some work in the background.
He was very excited to have some unexpected random viewers which made my day.
Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
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#82twitch 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…
That's interesting! I would watch it What's your Twitch name?
Thank you, I really appreciate that. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606535356
I'm slowly getting better at it too and am planning on streaming some Julia Differential Equations stuff tomorrow PST.
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#83Yeah, I do this a lot. But it’s a useful discipline to make sure you push your side project along.
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#84twitch 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?
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember quite a while back, Chat Roulette song improv was a big thing. It was the guy in the hoodie - PianoChatImprov on Youtube. I just looked it up and, wow, that was 10 years ago. This was also before Chat Roulette became nothing but dongs.
I'm kinda surprised there was a "before" in that situation. I presumed that was what was going tonhappen from the get-go. Perhaps I am too cynical.
Sadly, no. At the beginning it was mostly random people. Unfortunately, you need very little to ruin things - most normal people will not play even with a 10% chance of getting a dong, and the more “normies” leave, the higher that chance gets, in a vicious circle.
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#86Singer Ben Folds once did this during a huge concert. So random people looking for a video chat would suddenly see a man on a stage in front of a huge audience...singing a song about them. ("Hello Mr. Shirtless Man. How are you doin' today? Is it hot in there...?") https://www.pigdog.org/auto/viva_la_musica/link/3203.html
I remember quite a while back, Chat Roulette song improv was a big thing. It was the guy in the hoodie - PianoChatImprov on Youtube. I just looked it up and, wow, that was 10 years ago. This was also before Chat Roulette became nothing but dongs.
the question is, would it be possible to implement something like that in a way where dong shows don't take over? What is it exactly that turned chat roulette into that?
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#87Would be nice if you could filter those fortnite kiddies
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#88twitch 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?
It's pretty common, I do it (shameless plug https://www.twitch.tv/nickbusey)
My stream setup is open source on GitLab https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/CodingStream
Here's an article I used in my early days to help get going https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2...
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#89twitch 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…
That’s because discovery on Twitch is almost non-existent. If you want to grow your Twitch channel start on YouTube, advertise your twitch channel there, and slowly try to convert people.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach. I'm sorry but this is not true. There have however been perception issues around viewbotting. One such: For most of the life of host mode when a small stream would get hosted by a big stream, nearly all of the transitioned viewers would stay (through inaction) in the host's channel. Many would be AFK. The small str…
> > Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach. > I'm sorry but this is not true. How can you possibly claim you know that most big streamers never used bots or bought views? None of them would ever tell a Twitch employee if they did. If you had the capacity to detect all bots then there would be zero botting on the platform, which is certainly not the case.
How are you going to question a Twitch employee but not someone making the absurd claim that "most of the big streamers got to where they are by view botting"?
The bigger streamers that weren't already famous have had followings for many years, going from few viewers to the thousands they get now. Saying most of them view botted is pretty wild. I'd love to see some actual evidence..