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Show HN: A list of programmers coding live

by aulrich on 10/2/18, 4:21 PM with 61 comments

• by aulrich on 10/2/18, 4:22 PM

  Heya!

  I’m Armin, I built shipstreams.com. Inspired by Pat Walls building "You Don't Need WordPress" live on Twitch in 24h, I created this list of makers streaming their work!

  After many hours on Twitch I found many cool people doing so much great work. There is always to learn something while looking over someone's shoulder :)

  If you want to add yourself and build with us, you can use the Submit Form. - I’m especially on the lookout for more streaming women makers! ‍

  In the future, I'd like to add Youtube-Code-Steamers as well, or maybe you know of other Websites who host some Makers? Could see shipstreams as an aggregator for all of them :)

  Cheers and see you Live, Armin

  Links: Telegram Notification Channel: http://t.me/shipstreams Submit Form: https://shipstreams.com/submit Github: https://github.com/arminulrich/shipstreams.com (Laravel + Vue.js - hacked together in 24 hours )

• by Walkman on 10/2/18, 7:08 PM

  Genuine question: What is the appeal of watching live coding? Who watches these? I'm watching code all day long, arguing about it, understanding it on my workplace, if I get home, there is no way I want to watch another guy live coding. Maybe doing my own thing when I'm free and not tied to a gazillion rules of how to do things.

• by fenwick67 on 10/2/18, 5:26 PM

  If they're literally all on Twitch, why would I use this site instead of just searching for software devs via Twitch directly?

• by SoulMan on 10/2/18, 5:40 PM

  Wonderful, This is exactly what I was looking for a few days ago and someone already did it. twitch is primarily a place for gamers but good to see programmers. I follow Stephen Wolfram and Holden Karau 's live coding and code reviews.

• by jonheller on 10/2/18, 5:47 PM

  Nice to see some manual curation in this space. For some reason, I've found Twitch's categorization of this type of stream to be challenging to find (i.e. it's under creative, but hard to filter from the rest of that category unless people specifically tag it things like development or programming).

• by cercatrova on 10/2/18, 5:18 PM

  Good stuff, I remember seeing Walls' tweet [0], and watching this site go up on Product Hunt soon after he finished. I do wonder though, is this a more focused version of Twitch's Programming directory [1]?

  [0] https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1043242997050167302 [1] https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming

• by highace on 10/2/18, 6:38 PM

  I would love to stream as I program, but I'm too afraid of accidentally showing a password or API key or something and pwning myself.

• by avitzurel on 10/2/18, 6:06 PM

  I streamed on Twitch for a while [1], the change they made with the categories now officially kills off programming streams and show that they don't really care about it.

  Curating streams this way is very useful and looks good.

  [1] https://www.twitch.tv/kensodev

• by swlkr on 10/2/18, 6:54 PM

  This is cool, twitch and youtube are both great platforms to stream.

  It’s funny there was a new platform linked here on HN I think a few years ago, and it did pretty well, I streamed on it for a while, but it never got the traction they wanted so they pivoted to live edu or something.

  This getting to the front page shows me that it’s better to start very small and work from there if you want to make a new community.

  I’m not saying that shipstreams is going to host their own streams one day, independent of twitch or youtube, but given a good start like this, it’s at least a possibility.

  Is this embrace, extend, extinguish?

  Regardless, congrats on shipping!

• by bmc7505 on 10/2/18, 7:27 PM

  Rachael Tatman at Kaggle does a livestream on Twitch every Friday: https://www.twitch.tv/rctatman

• by IdiotMoron on 10/2/18, 8:09 PM

  Here's another site of curated programming centered streams: https://belly.io/programming

• by rmbeard on 10/3/18, 6:15 AM

  Great idea, but none of the livestreaming coders I follow on Twitch are listed. Stephen Wolfram is a notable omission but there are some other great livestreams on Twtich creative.

• by xaranke on 10/2/18, 5:56 PM

  Looks good, but not a big fan of the autoplaying video.

  If I could click a button and start playing the video instead that would be great.

• by jaequery on 10/2/18, 6:52 PM

  anyone know what happened to livecoding.tv?

• by wpdev_63 on 10/3/18, 1:20 AM

  devstream.io does this also. Maybe not as polished though.

• by iamleppert on 10/2/18, 9:39 PM

  Can you post your chaturbate profile instead?

• by the_other_guy on 10/2/18, 7:20 PM

  I have a real suspicion towards anything that's featured on ProductHunt. I hope that this post's upvotes are genuine!

• by graphememes on 10/2/18, 5:22 PM

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