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

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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sulplisetalk 2 days ago|

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bombcar 2 days ago|

MST3K is completely incomprehensible!

reddozen 2 days ago|

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john_strinlai 2 days ago||

>Dan Clancy is totally ok with his contracted streamers constantly live streaming terrorist training videos

who is streaming terrorist videos?

you say it like everyone is, but i have never seen one myself. not that i watch all of the big streamers, but i definitely watch some of the biggest streamers on the platform and have no idea what you are referencing.

ellg 2 days 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

vintermann 2 days ago|||

I think there's a big "control premium" attached to these things. Not necessarily even that they will manipulate and censor rampantly, but that they could, I think the market prices highly.

tuveson 2 days ago||||

Twitch gets a big cut of individual creators’ subs, and I’d bet most people that stream also sub to other channels. Keeping people in the ecosystem is probably worth it, even if there’s some amount of “freeloading”.

nefarious_ends 2 days ago||||

do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?

charcircuit 2 days ago|||

It's important that they have a proper budget and pay near the sticker price that way they can play accounting games to make Twitch look unprofitable.

ellg 2 days ago|||

honestly not sure, but it would explain how they can keep it running

whaleofatw2022 2 days ago||

Well, I know a year (or 3?) Back they changed their retention of long videos, my guess is to lower storage spend.

operatingthetan 2 days ago|||

I mean if they are streaming to no clients, is there actually video being transmitted?

ellg 2 days 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

cwillu 2 days ago|||

Transcoding is only guaranteed for twitch partners, and the cdn doesn't actually distribute the video to a given datacenter until at least one viewer using that datacenter requests it.

ellg 2 days ago||

ya but 99% of streamers have their stream up in their dashboard or on a side monitor, so its always going to be sending and transcoding something

Karliss 2 days ago|||

Twitch can forward the stream as is without transcoding it. That's what transcoding not being guaranteed means. It will be a worse experience for viewers but it can work. Few years ago they even announced working with OBS on feature where streamers themselves can transcode and send multiple streams further reducing need for twitch to spend their compute resources on unprofitable streamers.

saltmate 2 days ago||

That feature exists by now, called "Enhanced Broadcasting".

cwillu 2 days ago||||

In addition to the other reply, forwarding to one region in the cdn is not the same as forwarding to every region.

vscode-rest 2 days ago|||

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cortesoft 2 days ago|||

Maybe they just don’t do that if you don’t have any streamers.