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We're also hiring:

Ruby engineers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312684 Python engineers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312675

I'd not checked out justin.tv since Justin's 24h lifestreaming event ended, but the other day I was round my brother's house (my brother is a non-techy person) and we were talking about the US Open tennis and where we should go to watch it.

"Oh I know this great site which has all the sports" he says as he loads up Justin.tv.

So basically justin.tv has loads of traffic because it is the hub of illegal sports rebroadcasting.

I think the site is great though, so I hope after all the copyright lawyers break down your doors and you are forced to go back to "legitimate" streams only, that your growth is still strong.

This happened to me too when I discovered a relative watching Major League Soccer and then noticed justin.tv in the address bar.

I asked him what "PSN" (the logo plastered all over the channel) was all about, and when he didn't know I had to conclude that either: 1) it was illegal or 2) PSN was somehow paying ESPN to re-broadcast MLS games.

I guess I was wrong in believing it was #2?

How are you making money? Google ads? Blockbuster movie ads? Are you making money or you only have revenue so far? Do you have any funding besides ycombinator?

We're currently running ads from a couple ad networks, but we're just getting started on monetization projects.

We've raised both angel and VC rounds (google for it if you want the amounts and people)

Hi Justin, could you comment on why you use both Python and Ruby? It seems odd for a small company to use two languages that are very similar.

Python for back-end (see: Twisted) and Ruby for front-end (see: Rails), I imagine.

Exactly. We use languages more for the libraries they offer, than for any other consideration.

We do the exact same thing at RescueTime, FWIW.

Yeah, you have lots of pedophiles on your channels. Curb that shit.

We're working on it, believe me.

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