Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by password4321 » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC

ellg wrote: post #5

jaequery wrote: post #4

i am actually even more impressed that you got this to front page

did I do something wrong or something

Not that I can see. I think most on HN root for the underdog.

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

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Post by ellg » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC

chundicus wrote: post #10

What about https://nobody.live/ ?

also neat! never heard of it, seems like we have a bit different ways about browsing similar data. very cool site

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

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Post by mememememememo » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 12:36 AM UTC

Old discussion has lots of comments too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114103

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

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Post by reddozen » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 12:44 AM UTC

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

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Post by ellg » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 12:45 AM UTC

reddozen wrote: post #14

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no comment on the political bits, but the fact that 80% of twitch is streaming to themselves cant be cheap to run

I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process

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Post by sulplisetalk » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

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

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Post by nefarious_ends » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 1:15 AM UTC

ellg wrote: post #15

reddozen wrote: post #14

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no comment on the political bits, but the fact that 80% of twitch is streaming to themselves cant be cheap to run I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process

do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?

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

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Post by operatingthetan » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 1:18 AM UTC

ellg wrote: post #15

reddozen wrote: post #14

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no comment on the political bits, but the fact that 80% of twitch is streaming to themselves cant be cheap to run I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process

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

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

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Post by ellg » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 1:19 AM UTC

nefarious_ends wrote: post #17

ellg wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no comment on the political bits, but the fact that 80% of twitch is streaming to themselves cant be cheap to run I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process

do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?

honestly not sure, but it would explain how they can keep it running

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

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Post by ellg » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 1:19 AM UTC

operatingthetan wrote: post #18

ellg wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no comment on the political bits, but the fact that 80% of twitch is streaming to themselves cant be cheap to run I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process

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