Ask HN: Do you stream? Why and what?

In order to get over camera shyness and also to build up career capital, I started a YouTube channel four months. It's now reached 1.4k subscribers.

Topics:

— behind the scenes code and marketing tours of my 1-man web-app biz (it's been running for 10 years and while it doesn't earn big bucks, it provides for all my financial needs)

— "timeless" programming concepts (e.g. unix, vim, testing, checklists for reducing errors, data constraints)

Not quite live-streaming yet, but I think I'll be ready to go real-time soon.

I would say that three months of YouTubing has been incredibly rewarding. More so than a decade of blogging. The main reason is because you generate a much stronger bond with your audience when they see your face and hear your voice. I've received lots of thank-you emails and video call invites from really interesting people around the world.

Here's the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC17mJJnvzAa_e9qQqLIfIeQ

I do not, but I want to try streaming a hobby of mine and some projects around it. There is a great post[1] from about a month ago which goes over the gear and setup for a coding stream. I think with a lot of undertakings like this it's best to not get intimidated by gear and setups and just jump into it, no one's watching, yet(!)

[1]: https://jordanlewis.org/posts/twitch-live-coding/

1. Yes, over at https://twitch.tv/pyatl 2. Because its a great way to pay it forward by sharing my knowledge/experiences 3. Python related stuff for the time being