Show HN: A list of programmers coding live
shipstreams.com
shipstreams.com
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 )
eg: Golang, redis, aws, AI, etc.
I'd suggest adding Jonathan Blow, an indie game developer of Braid and The Witness who designs and builds his own games and game engines on stream: https://twitch.tv/naysayer88
Also, I notice there are very few female developers on your list. I think it would be of great service to the programming community to find some women and add them to your list.
Make sure you ask them first if that is ok. Not all attention is welcome attention.
I used to stream and my audience was students, beginners, junior engineers etc...
I had a few senior engineers watching when I streamed more advanced Devops, React, Python etc.. But in general, that was the division.
There is a big gap in software education from the tutorial to the point of dealing with real world and real life problems, people are attracted to seeing how you would solve things that come up in real life and that's where they get most of the value.
Viewers often view this during work, so they have some white-noise type from the keyboard typing and voice.
The main point in streaming and watching streams in my mind is the sense of community, people ask A LOT of questions and get a ton of value from it (depends on the streamer)
Development ideas and methodologies like that don't appear in code.
The first is more effective but the second is easier and more entertaining.
Unless you're commenting on the stream, it's a very passive act of learning.
I never usually have a stream on for more than 10-15 minutes at a time, but other than the nice sound of keyboard typing I also enjoy trying to be helpful or just poking in and seeing what other people are working on.
Adam keeps a really well organized programmers' log and todo list, and I've incorporated that into my own daily work.
I don't watch people code, but I do watch people study (or have it on while I code).
Yesterday, I was doing some after-work hobby-coding while listening to ChilledCow (on YouTube). There's a cartoon girl studying and writing in a notebook. The animation revamps endlessly, while lofi hip-hop is playing in the background. I have it on, because its very soothing to have something on and grind through a task after work.
This is actually a thing. Another channel "The Strive Studies" features a girl studying for her medical licence (something like that). Just jazz music and 1-3 hours of her reading and typing.
Basically, anything can become social, and coding/studying while someone is coding/studying can become highly motivating. You know they are going through the same stress and working towards some goal. Its fun to be part of that process. But, it somehow opens your mind up that "you are not alone".
So, yea, virtual study/coding groups are a great way to motivate.
ChilledCow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW1oY26kxQ The Strive Studies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDbesougG0
I started out last week with like five people, and only twitch people kept writing me so far :)
[0] https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1043242997050167302 [1] https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming
Curating streams this way is very useful and looks good.
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!
If I could click a button and start playing the video instead that would be great.
They used to have a good community going, I streamed there for a little while but everyone seems to shift to Twitch/Youtube.