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Comment by Scirra_Tom | Hacker News Reader

I do like the idea of Revlo. However could it be fair to consider Revlo a missing feature of Twitch? If Twitch bring out their own similar program I imagine it would spell bad news.

Secondly, is there any possibility Twitch would not like Revlo in that it might be increasing the number of people who leave Twitch running in the background but never watch it?

Also, is it fair to say you may be incentivising people to stream multiple times with multiple accounts to rack up the points and have a much better chance of winning the prize draws? My experience is prizes don't have to be that valuable for people to make big efforts to game it!

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To answer your first point, you could argue that but the reality for Twitch is that they may not possess the bandwidth to build it themselves.

That's not to say that they aren't smart enough, or don't have the money, or don't possess some sort of hard skill or item that would let them do it. It's the nature of successful companies to focus on their core competencies and Twitch may consider it not worth the risk of distracting themselves. If it picks up traction, they will go to Revlo and look to invest/obtain warrants in the business. If it's even more successful, they'll try to acquire it and then they'll have the solution without all the risk.

This dynamic is played out in a lot of industries and is hardly a reason to not pursue this idea.

There's definitely some overlap between what Twitch would want to do and us, but we've found that most streamers also need to interact and engage their fans on other platforms as well (Discord, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook etc). We're exploring how we can help these streamers interact in all communities.

We're definitely monitoring the different ways that people may look to abuse the system, afk, multiple channels etc. Our long-term plan to combat this is to introduce more points into a creator's economy through interaction. By participating in contests, trivia, or someone's Discord community you can accumulate more points than just leaving it running in the background.

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