Why is the stream area tiny?
Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
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Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#12Why is the stream area tiny?
You can full screen it, I went with the lazy max fixed width approach for "responsive".
This whole project is about 4 hours total of dev time, so any feedback like this is nuch appreciated, thanks.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#13Quite a nice idea, well done! Very minimalist and clean as well. Few pieces of feedback after playing with it for a few minutes- Not sure if I'm getting unlucky or the results are cached but quite a few of the streamers who popped up were offline. Using the twitch api under the hood I assume?
Ya due to the way getting acess to this works, theres a 10 minute cache of active streams that get expired in redis and a cron job pulls in a fresh list
If you are not already, you could use the GraphQL API that the web app uses, which provides sorting by viewers ASC. That would allow for much more up to date results than iterating the full list with the official API.
Not sure how happy Twitch is about external users, but it can be accessed quite easily with some tinkering.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ya due to the way getting acess to this works, theres a 10 minute cache of active streams that get expired in redis and a cron job pulls in a fresh list
If you are not already, you could use the GraphQL API that the web app uses, which provides sorting by viewers ASC. That would allow for much more up to date results than iterating the full list with the official API. Not sure how happy Twitch is about external users, but it can be accessed quite easily with some tinkering.
This is exactly what its doing, albeit caching results, somce im trying to be nice. Official api sadly does not allow sorting by asc.
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#15Really cool idea. Thanks for sharing.
I could totally see myself using this more if you added 2 options, language and game.
Also interesting would be to display not only 0 streams but also streams with <10 viewers.
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#16Great idea. It'd be great if you could select a game / category. Reason is I'd actually be able to have an actual chat with someone if I knew something about the game.
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#17Really cool idea. Thanks for sharing. I could totally see myself using this more if you added 2 options, language and game. Also interesting would be to display not only 0 streams but also streams with <10 viewers.
Ya I've heard similar ideas with regards to filtering, I'm gonna play around with that for sure. Thanks for the feedback.
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#18Great concept for the winner take all world we live in now. It's very difficult to get your name out there in anything these days without having to invest a lot in marketing yourself.
Agreed. I'd like to see something similar for the app stores, but don't think it would work with the magnitude of games and apps there.
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#19Great idea. It'd be great if you could select a game / category. Reason is I'd actually be able to have an actual chat with someone if I knew something about the game.
If the expose category and tags then passing through the ability to filter based on that would nice too.