Devstream.tv
Consumer and social
live streaming aggregator
SHOW HN2018
257points
60comments
#116of 2,155 in 2018
Top 6%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.
Idea: 3 for, 5 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea that fills a gap for developer streams
From 3 comments
So this is basically a twitch aggregator for developer streams. Cool idea! An idea: it would be cool to have separate feeds for the available tags so that users could browse the…
tombrm on HNJust when I thought everything has been done. Wow. this is an original great idea!
pascalxus on HNSaw awesome-developer-streams on GitHub as well and had a similar idea :-) Site looks neat, good job!
keraf on HN
Objections
Mostly duplicates what Twitch's programming category already does
From 4 comments
Cool although it seems this just does what Twitch could do themselves? Not very familiar with that entire scene, though. As a practical point the text on the stream thumbnails is…
unwind on HNSee also https://www.twitch.tv/communities/programming
stablemap on HNI like your site, but I don't understand what the difference is from just going to https://www.twitch.tv/communities/programming
jamra on HNhaha, i came here to post "why wouldn't this just be twitch.tv" and it is indeed twitch.tv, well done!
mylons on HN
Autoplaying videos are annoying
From 2 comments
Please don't auto play videos on your site.
kody on HNYea but if someone sends me a link to one to look at later, I still don’t want it to start autoplaying in class. Maybe have an obvious ?autoplay=true param.
afarrell on HN
Requests
Add YouTube streams as a source
From 1 comment
Yes, YouTube will be added next.
algorithm_dk on HN
Browse streams by topic tags
From 1 comment
So this is basically a twitch aggregator for developer streams. Cool idea! An idea: it would be cool to have separate feeds for the available tags so that users could browse the…
tombrm on HN
Mute embedded videos by default
From 1 comment
If twitch offers an option for sound on embedded videos to be muted, that would be perfect -- at least on the home page where people who are checking out a site for the first…
rmast on HN
Questions
How does it differ from Twitch's programming community page?
From 2 comments
I like your site, but I don't understand what the difference is from just going to https://www.twitch.tv/communities/programming
jamra on HNSee also https://www.twitch.tv/communities/programming
stablemap on HN
Alternatives named
Twitch programming community
From 2 comments
See also https://www.twitch.tv/communities/programming
stablemap on HNCool although it seems this just does what Twitch could do themselves? Not very familiar with that entire scene, though. As a practical point the text on the stream thumbnails is…
unwind on HN
LiveEdu
From 2 comments
Isn't this similar to https://www.liveedu.tv/ ?
jbernardo95 on HNLiveedu used to be called Livecoding (but then pivoted) since a coding-only live-streaming platform did not get traction. And became redundant once Twitch allowed live-streaming…
minimaxir on HN