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What motivate you to do a live streaming to the public?

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Now a day the live streaming through smart phone is booming due to the appearance of Meerkat and periscope. BUT, what's the user case? In Germany, no one gives a damn about live streaming stuff at the individual level.

What do you think?

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I do not stream myself. I do enjoy watching these types of streams. Mostly on stre.am, not meerkat or periscope, stre.am has a better community than those guys. I watch because of the interesting glimpses at people with interesting lives. I avoid the streams of someone at the bar having a drink with friends or the ones of someone grocery shopping, but instead really enjoy the more fascinating streams. for example recently i watched a guy stream his first time landing a plane. I found that quite fun to watch.

Thanks for the inputs, mate! I use stre.am as well.

I doubt very many people on HN care about broadcasting themselves to the public using things like Meerkat and Periscope either. Maybe as a consumer it could be interesting if people are showing things other than the crap they already show on Vine/Instagram (lame comedy, butt workouts, etc.).

I know Meerket recently pitched itself as a way to share interesting events (St. Patrick's Day in Dublin, The Running of the Bulls in Madrid, etc.) but what they think people are using it for and what people are using it for in reality seem pretty far apart at this point.

Thanks for your inputs, really appreciated it :)

I think so, there are more and more crappy videos, but the thing is, Meerkat and Periscope are used by very influential people in the tech industry, which probably one of the reasons why more and more people is using it and the teams also raise a lot of cash to continue with the business development.

Let's see how these will go, probably going to be huge ;)

> Now a day the live streaming through smart phone is booming due to the appearance of Meerkat and periscope.

No it's not :p

Tell us more, I may be wrong ;)

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