Twitch Roulette
Consumer and social
live streaming discovery
SHOW HN2020
732points
202comments
#14of 3,028 in 2020
Top 1%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
15 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 21 critical, out of 66 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Idea: 11 for, 7 againstPerformance: 1 for, 6 againstDesign: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun concept and clean minimalist design
From 3 comments
Quite a nice idea, well done! Very minimalist and clean as well. Few pieces of feedback after playing with it for a few minutes- Not sure if I'm getting unlucky or the results…
paraxisi on HNThis was so much fun to test out this morning. Most streamers who saw me come in were so excited to have a viewer. Nice idea.
ryeguy_24 on HNI found a streamer that was really cool. Followed. Honestly great product. It's like StumbleUpon but for streamers.
olah_1 on HN
Helps small streamers feel seen
From 2 comments
This was so much fun to test out this morning. Most streamers who saw me come in were so excited to have a viewer. Nice idea.
ryeguy_24 on HNI just listened to a little kid play Fortnite while I did some work in the background. He was very excited to have some unexpected random viewers which made my day.
sbuccini on HN
Objections
Streams shown are often offline or stale
From 2 comments
Quite a nice idea, well done! Very minimalist and clean as well. Few pieces of feedback after playing with it for a few minutes- Not sure if I'm getting unlucky or the results…
paraxisi on HNI don't know how it works, but it would great to check if the streamers are streaming. Clicked on multiple streams that weren't live.
LockAndLol on HN
Video player is too small
From 3 comments
Why is the stream area tiny?
vpzom on HNIs the video supposed to be postage stamp sized?
Hamuko on HNI'm guessing my suggestion is also buried by about 110 comments by now, but the stream in the UX is far too small and makes the actual stream far less viewable than the chat. A…
baalimago on HN
Firefox display problems
From 1 comment
Anyone else using Firefox? It doesn't appear to work very well in FF :(
philliphaydon on HN
Requests
Language filter
From 2 comments
Really cool idea. Thanks for sharing. I could totally see myself using this more if you added 2 options, language and game. Also interesting would be to display not only 0…
m1aw on HNfeature request: language picker. saying hi to someone that doesn't speak my language has got me kicked.
zbowling on HN
Game or category filter
From 1 comment
Great idea. It'd be great if you could select a game / category. Reason is I'd actually be able to have an actual chat with someone if I knew something about the game.
darrenkopp on HN
Sort game names alphabetically
From 1 comment
Quick suggestion: Sort game name A-Z
d0m on HN
Questions
How does the site fetch live streams given API limits?
From 2 comments
Quite a nice idea, well done! Very minimalist and clean as well. Few pieces of feedback after playing with it for a few minutes- Not sure if I'm getting unlucky or the results…
paraxisi on HNThis is exactly what its doing, albeit caching results, somce im trying to be nice. Official api sadly does not allow sorting by asc.
mumphster on HN
Alternatives named
LonelyStreams
From 2 comments
Hmm there was https://lonelystreams.com/ before but it doesn't work for a long time.
haunter on HNIt's broken now because of API changes but it's the same concept as LonelyStreams (https://lonelystreams.com). It's always fun to see some begginner streams.
rnotaro on HN
Twitch Raids
From 1 comment
I made a similar site as part of a hackathon at Twitch: https://twitchraids.com The idea is to raid random channels together with everyone on the site. Channels are randomly…
hassaanm on HN
Omegle and chat roulette sites
From 2 comments
Isn’t this already there and called Omegle?
jupp0r on HNI chuckled as it reminded me of the cams roulettes in the old days. Still, I liked it. I got a random 'mature' stream.
A4ET8a8uTh0 on HN