Do you stream on Twitch or Periscope?
If so, drop your links below! I'm trying to discover other makers that livestream aside from those listed on Shipstreams and whatnot. :)
Twitch…at least potentially. Might start streaming here and there, but if so it'll be while making music :) I'm alexhayworth there.
I don't find it worth it… Low viewership for most dev streams and lots of trolls… It also makes it harder to code when you know others might be watching + all the security risk with exposing keys etc. It's fun when you get a bit of a chat going but overall it's not enough.
I can understand that - if you're developing/coding/etc. - it might not be worth it to stream willy nilly, at least not without a preexisting audience. As much as I love that so many people are making and building and developing, (and as much as people are gung ho about "building in public"), let's be honest: those who want to hang out while you effectively tap and click away is a small subset of people. And if you're some wonderful, engaging conversationalist all the while, there's a good chance you're not as focused as you probably want to be…at least, that's been my experience; I can't speak for others. People (if they're not fellow makers/friends checking in) watch streams for their entertainment value. And people are pretty discerning, and oddly demanding. Even when I've streamed any kind of music making (and I manage to make some catchy sounds in the process), I've found myself feeling like I was a playing in a bar, having drunk song requests shouted at me. Unless you're providing an instant gratification hit to people, (in the case of music being something of a human jukebox, hah), it's difficult to hold people's attention. Where I do think streaming can fit well into the maker workflow is if you record the streams and use them across social, and on your blog/in blog posts, maybe in time lapses to show your build process when you're trying to market/get visibility for a product. If you use the videos like that, then the streaming part is sort of an extra, collateral. Two birds with one stone kind of thing. Everyone nods their head in agreement when someone like Pieter Levels talks about streaming all of this or that project, but no one sat there the whole time and watched - they watched a clip, or the time lapse after the fact, in the blog post about building in public. Just my two cents, but I think about this a bunch relative to myself: there's no one way to make or build or find attention. There are times and places for everything, but you have to do what works for you. Whether having say, three viewers is a precious thing, or is a poor return on time for someone is I suppose subjective. .:thishasbeenaramblingcomment:.
Straight way answer,
Twitch is awesome, streamed many times. Never tried using Periscope. 😎
Great answer Alex! For coding it's different, imo. It keeps me focused, and people in the chat are generally helpful.
^ I can see that. Music is definitely a bit different. I'm no neurologist, so I don't know how this works, but I know that with some things (music), I have to be in a very particular mindset to focus and be immersed. With other things I can be 100% focused while engaging with other people. Actually trying to explore this a little though, because I like the idea of streaming while writing music.
Totally understood - it's different because you have to get in a certain headspace.
Both. I use http://www.Restream.io to send my stream to all the different services.
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