Is the video supposed to be postage stamp sized?
Nope, whats your viewing setup? OS, browser, device, etc? Still iterating on this from yall's feedback as we speak.
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
#52Very cool idea. I'm having problems to access the website. Maybe the high traffic put it down.
Just bumped the amount of asgi workers and upped the DO droplet size, should be good now, sorry about that!
just of out of curiosity, what size was your droplet and how was your asgi config?
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#53twitch 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…
It definitely takes a long view approach. A couple important aspects of building a steaming following are structure and consistency.
If you give people a clear idea of what to expect from your stream and when it will be live, and if you don't make too many drastic or sudden changes to either of those variables, then those who like your content enough to make time for it will do so.
If you keep making changes, show up late or just don't seem dedicated, then people won't feel like they can rely on you. Because of that, people won't factor you into their decisions about how they spend their time.
Glad to see you're giving it an effort! I wish you the best of luck.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just bumped the amount of asgi workers and upped the DO droplet size, should be good now, sorry about that!
just of out of curiosity, what size was your droplet and how was your asgi config?
had it on a $5 vps with a single worker, bumped it up to a 3 cpu vps and 8 workers. This is using starlette + uvicorn + redis
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ya I've heard similar ideas with regards to filtering, I'm gonna play around with that for sure. Thanks for the feedback.
filtering by game while obvious also means creating a filter bubble - it'd be nice if a you could choose just from 'unpopular games' :)
I thought about both being able to include and exclude games (and non game stuff like IRL, music etc)
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#56twitch 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…
Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach.
I'm not recommending that, it's something that Twitch are hotter about catching and banning these days, but it has meant that there has been an entrenched set of "big streamers" for some time now with less ability to break in.
Really the only way is to be playing a game for a while that suddenly gets big so you can be one of the better players for a while, or be playing a niche game that a 'big streamer' happens to play and you'll pick up some viewers when they inevitably move on to the next thing.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#57twitch 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…
I'm working on https://www.0views.club exactely to try and mitigate this problem :) It's a case of sincronicity with GP, I'm literally working on it (that's why you'll see the TOP streams right now... I'm testing stuff out). Wanna try once ready? I want to give the user the possibility to set custom tags as well.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#58twitch 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…
I'm working on https://www.0views.club exactely to try and mitigate this problem :) It's a case of sincronicity with GP, I'm literally working on it (that's why you'll see the TOP streams right now... I'm testing stuff out). Wanna try once ready? I want to give the user the possibility to set custom tags as well.
Yeah reach out whenever you like, my email should be in my profile
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#59Singer 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.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
#60Is the video supposed to be postage stamp sized?
Nope, whats your viewing setup? OS, browser, device, etc? Still iterating on this from yall's feedback as we speak.
I had the same thing - Firefox on Mac. The video area was 920px wide, but the video player was only 250x150px.
Also, I went to leave a comment on the stream and it asked me to log in. After jumping through the reset-your-password stuff and logging in I came back and tried to comment again (after refreshing). It said "you aren't logged in" (even though I am) and popped up the twitch homepage instead of the login box. The query param seemed to be something like ?popup=true, then it redirects to https://www.twitch.tv/?no-reload=true - which is just the twitch homepage.
[Edit: also, this is a really fun site! Excellent work!]