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

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

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Comments (43)

  • flowgrammer
    Great idea. One of my saddest projects was making a site to help Twitch streamers get sponsorship for playing games. You automatically got picked if your view count was high enough. I saw thousands of people streaming on Twitch by themselves for weeks with no viewers whatsoever. Surely many of them had families and partners, but I'm also sure many did not.
  • jmpavlec
    Very nice. Currently on mobile where it mostly works in landscape. (Unusable in portrait). Will check it out on desktop later.Love the idea of making someone's day.
  • chundicus
  • mister_mort
    Perhaps you can add a check to see if the stream is behind a login/agegate? I pushed the random button and got a stream that I was locked out of.
  • lovehashbrowns
    really fun! already found an MLB stream, someone streaming Age of Empires 1 no talking and chat in emote mode, someone going absolutely crazy on a racing game I think multi-streaming with their audience primarily on YT. and now I'm on a BG3 playthrough I'm pretty sure.
  • reddozen
    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.
  • JohannesCortez
    Great concept! Brought me to a girl playing COD. She only has me as a viewer.She thanked me so I stayed for a while lol
  • AlphaTheGoat
    Great idea for when you bored and want to discover new twitch channels. Just a suggestion: it would be better if you can ask the user what their preference is and then suggest accordingly.
  • password4321
    Similar in spirit to IMG_0001⁰, IMG_0416¹, and astronaut.io² for YouTube but live on Twitch!⁰https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308547¹https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314547²https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772
  • munro
    Awesome haha, they look so shocked when you send a message, and then I get embarrassed and spin again
  • ellg
    Check out a cool real time feed of people discovering new streamers here: https://twitchroulette.net/discoverAnd some neat global stats around twitch streams here: https://twitchroulette.net/stats
  • kimchelgi03
    Cool concept! Discovery is the hardest part for small streamers — most viewers only see the top channels and never scroll down. The real-time stats breakdown sounds interesting.
  • nosmokewhereiam
    There are some soundcloud and mixcloud versions that might need inventing ...cool concept!
  • mememememememo
    Old discussion has lots of comments too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114103
  • twentyfiveoh1
    my first one was junk essentially. I don't even think the host was there. They said they were streaming music videos, which is already questionable. Instead they were streaming an interview with a music artist.
  • QuiDortDine
    Kind reminder that Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is a monster of a company. Check out Owncast and Peertube for alternatives.
  • jaequery
    i am actually even more impressed that you got this to front page
  • dzonga
    this is pretty dope !!was the only viewer to some guy playing far cry
  • saadn92
    Can we make a version for YouTube as well? I'd love to be discovered haha
  • newgrit1004
    [dead]
  • sulplisetalk
    "Twatxh Loulette"