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

 (twitchroulette.net)

43 points | by ellg 3 hours ago

9 comments

  • reddozen 43 minutes ago
    I will never understand how Amazon hasn't shuttered Twitch yet. Dan Clancy is totally ok with his contracted streamers constantly live streaming terrorist training videos. I guess the adpocalypse only came for YouTube and never Twitch.
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    • ellg 41 minutes ago
      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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      • operatingthetan 9 minutes ago
        I mean if they are streaming to no clients, is there actually video being transmitted?
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        • ellg 7 minutes ago
          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
      • nefarious_ends 12 minutes ago
        do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?
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        • ellg 8 minutes ago
          honestly not sure, but it would explain how they can keep it running
  • chundicus 56 minutes ago
    What about https://nobody.live/?
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    • ellg 54 minutes ago
      also neat! never heard of it, seems like we have a bit different ways about browsing similar data. very cool site
  • mememememememo 51 minutes ago
    Old discussion has lots of comments too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114103
  • password4321 1 hour ago
    Similar in spirit to IMG_0001⁰, IMG_0416¹, and astronaut.io² for YouTube but live on Twitch!

    ⁰https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308547

    ¹https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314547

    ²https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772

  • ellg 1 hour ago
    Check out a cool real time feed of people discovering new streamers here: https://twitchroulette.net/discover

    And some neat global stats around twitch streams here: https://twitchroulette.net/stats

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    • recursivecaveat 1 hour ago
      For anyone who is curious btw: twitch will count you as your own viewer. So anyone with their own chat open in a browser (almost everyone so they can read it) will have that 1 viewer. Which is why the bottom of the distribution is so weird looking.
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      • ellg 1 hour ago
        ya it's why I have the default set to 0-5, theres weirdness in what twitch counts as a viewer
  • nosmokewhereiam 1 hour ago
    There are some soundcloud and mixcloud versions that might need inventing ...cool concept!
  • jaequery 1 hour ago
    i am actually even more impressed that you got this to front page
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    • ellg 1 hour ago
      did I do something wrong or something
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      • password4321 54 minutes ago
        Not that I can see. I think most on HN root for the underdog.
  • dzonga 1 hour ago
    this is pretty dope !!

    was the only viewer to some guy playing far cry

  • sulplisetalk 36 minutes ago
    "Twatxh Loulette"