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Posted by ellg 2 days ago

Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most(twitchroulette.net)
Hey HN, I re-launched an old site I remembered back in the day that someone made called twitchroulette.net with a lot of new features and stats and I would love for people to check it out. The idea is you can easily browse the less browsed parts of twitch and find cool and new streamers to say hi to, and maybe make some new friends.

I also added some real time stats and breakdowns per channel and I think some of the things they show are pretty interesting. Check it out!

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ellg 2 days 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

RugnirViking 1 day ago||
whats the other end of some of these? you showed which categories tend to have 0-1 viewers, what categories have the least? what categories have lowest average age of accounts with 10+ viewers etc. What should you do to stand out?
recursivecaveat 2 days 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.
tmtvl 1 day ago|||
You could just open your twitch chat via an IRC client, then you (might?) not count as your own viewer.
ellg 2 days ago|||
ya it's why I have the default set to 0-5, theres weirdness in what twitch counts as a viewer
nosmokewhereiam 2 days ago||
There are some soundcloud and mixcloud versions that might need inventing ...cool concept!
munro 2 days ago||
Awesome haha, they look so shocked when you send a message, and then I get embarrassed and spin again
kimchelgi03 2 days ago||
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.
twentyfiveoh1 2 days ago||
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 2 days ago||
Kind reminder that Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is a monster of a company. Check out Owncast and Peertube for alternatives.
sudo_cowsay 1 day ago||
monster yes, but also very powerful
jaequery 2 days ago||
i am actually even more impressed that you got this to front page
ellg 2 days ago|
did I do something wrong or something
password4321 2 days ago|||
Not that I can see. I think most on HN root for the underdog.
R_D_Olivaw 2 days ago||
Next up: HackernewsRoulette
dezgeg 1 day ago||
Roulette to find all those vibe coded apps with zero users, sounds great!
jaequery 1 day ago|||
what? no, i love projects like these. but re-reading my comment, it does sound a little messed =p. what i meant was it gave me old HN vibes, back when weird, fun projects popped off instead of everything being AI-wrapped.
dzonga 2 days ago||
this is pretty dope !!

was the only viewer to some guy playing far cry

saadn92 2 days ago||
Can we make a version for YouTube as well? I'd love to be discovered haha
hikaru_ai 2 days ago|
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