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Comment by ilrwbwrkhv | Hacker News Reader

Why would I use this instead of something like streaming directly on Twitch or YouTube? Since they also bring the audience it helps to stream there.

There used to be a livecoding.tv back in the day which slowly died out so I would love to have something like this but I don't fully get why to use it.

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> There used to be a livecoding.tv back in the day which slowly died out

For a bit of additional context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476

Anecdotally, they cold-emailed me in 2016 "looking for cool projects developers are building", using an email address they probably scraped from Github. Not a good sign when you're resorting to spamming people to beg for content.

Wow. Thanks for sharing this. I just had no idea or might have just deleted this from my mind. Now I see why they died out. I didn't know YC was involved so much.

You may want to not have your content disappear suddently if for some reasons Twitch or Youtube decide unilateraly that they want to get rid of your account. Ditto if at some point you realise you don't want to be associated with them and want to close your account. You would still have that place you control where you can redirect people.

Most of our users multistream to Twitch, YouTube and X through Algora! We also support aggregating live chat comments from these platforms and embedding them on your screen, and more recently, livestream monetization via in-video ads

Personally I think it would be useful to have "as well as" Youtube and Twitch streams

Use the bigger established sites to find an audience, direct them to your personal stream if they want to support you without Twitch or YouTube taking a cut

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