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Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch
- aulrich 8y agoHeya! I’m Armin, part of the team behind the 24 Hour Startup Challenge! Over this weekend, there are over 300 founders building products live on Twitch in 24 hours. As I post this, there are almost 90 people live streaming their work from all over the world! You can watch them on 24hrstartup.com. The idea behind this live-streamed hackathon event comes from Pat Walls. He challenged himself to do a 24-hour startup twice this year and live-streamed his process. He is currently moderating and interviewing people from the maker community in our main stream. Initially, we planned for about 50 participants but were overwhelmed with sign-ups. People are motivated to do this, and you can see that in their streams! We think it’s great to watch everyone make their crazy ideas reality, so we wanted to share :) A few products being built right now: * Heartbeat Canvas - Generate art from your heartbeat * Privacy First Products - A curated list where you can discuss privacy first products * EpilepsyBlocker - Disable GIFs that may cause epilepsy Let us know what you think! Armin (& Melanie & Pat)
- seapunk 8y agoHi Armin, this challenge is a great initiative. I'm sure it will help a lot of hackers to show more what they are doing.
- harianus 8y agoThanks for the mention of Privacy First Products, I will probably post that to Hacker News later, but here is already a sneak preview: https://privacyfirstproducts.com https://privacyfirstproducts.com It's quite a challenge to keep focused all the time, but it's super fun to test out what you can do in one day. The code will reflect the fast coding of course, but I'm surprised on the progress of maybe streamers!
- jammygit 8y agoSeems like a less descriptive privacytools.io. The focus is on the comments I take it? I guess my concern is whether the commenters will write insightful, useful things or whether it will be all speculation. I'll bookmark it for later anyway
- ArtWomb 8y agoTwitch is a great platform for this. I really believe you could turn this concept into an always on 24/7 channel ;) One interesting trend are features built on top of remote team management tools such as slack, airtable, gitlab, etc. I use G Suite everyday. And would definitely look to build on that platform with their huge user base ;)
- scoot 8y agoCould the mods please fix the title? “Tens of developers building web apps on Twitch right now”
- shafyy 8y agoCool. However, stop calling it startups. They're launching apps/products, not startups.
- jonathankoren 8y agoStrong agree. It’s hard to understand how you would build a sustainable business around any of the products listed in this thread.
- codingdave 8y agoTo get even more pedantic, they are building apps, not launching them. Not that I want to dismiss the efforts - a group of people all challenging themselves to build out a side project in 24 hours is commendable. But building an idea into an MVP on a Saturday is not the same thing as launching a company.
- richrichardsson 8y agoWhat is a startup anyway? The term is stupid and overused imo.
- newman8r 8y agoA lot of people on HN would probably go with the Paul Graham definition: "A startup is a company designed to grow fast" http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
- davecraige 8y agoAwesome work
- ui-explorer12 8y ago>> Privacy First Products - A curated list where you can discuss privacy first products Cool! will I be expected to sign-up with my FB/Google/Whatever social media account to join? </s>
- harianus 8y agoNo, you will need a email address to log in.
- edoceo 8y agoWhy login to view a list?
- keithnz 8y agoI think its trying to be a fancy list, but it seems like it should be in the spirit of Awesome X hosted on gituhub There's already some privacy ones of those... https://github.com/DVigneault/awesome-privacy https://github.com/DVigneault/awesome-privacy https://github.com/KevinColemanInc/awesome-privacy https://github.com/KevinColemanInc/awesome-privacy
- harianus 8y agoYou don't need to login to view the list. That would be silly.
- imglorp 8y agoGood question. On something that's minimal impact to lose, I like the https://spike.news https://spike.news model of saving state: you're given a token (a string of a few words) to log back in with later. No email, no risk, everyone's happy. Please don't use email if it's not necessary.
- Procrastes 8y agoI browsed the streams. Fun projects! Lots of opinions expressed here and I would tend to agree that none of these folks seem to be doing anything with customers. I'd love to see a challenge where the goal was to have 5 customers in 24 hours. With that said this seems more like a distributed hack-a-thon and a good one. I think that's an idea worth repeating. Venues and wifi and food and security and all the other things we have to do for meatspace hack-a-thons means we can only do one a year. Twitch hosted hack-a-thons seem like a great way to put something together fast. People could pay to play and gain a shot at the prizes. Hey... that sounds like a startup. Maybe there is one startup in your event. ;)
- louisswiss 8y ago> I'd love to see a challenge where the goal was to have 5 customers in 24 hours. I tried this (https://www.twitch.tv/louisswiss https://www.twitch.tv/louisswiss) last week and failed. The weekend just isn't good for b2b sales. With no extra work I did reach 4 sales ($600) within a week though.
- nsriv 8y agoReally cool idea and accountability measure for people to get their ideas made! Hope this only gains momentum in the future. It would be useful to be able to sort through the streams by the stack they're using, whether it be nocode, React, Django etc.
- shapiro92 8y agoHey All, just finished my 24hours working on https://moovoo.space/ https://moovoo.space/ you can find the whole experience here https://www.twitch.tv/czioutas/ https://www.twitch.tv/czioutas/ The idea is to make a TV online but with content from indie film-makers, free movies (public content) etc without making the user pay!
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- aulrich 8y agoSure! We started with 250 USD which we wanted to put in ourselves, and now we are at: https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1062834446691233793 https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1062834446691233793 :) We were able to get soo many awesome Sponsors on board ( https://24hrstartup.com/sponsors https://24hrstartup.com/sponsors )
- Procrastes 8y agoGreat idea and awesome execution!
- option_greek 8y agoThis is so cool. More than the startups themselves, I'm more interested in the dev tools/techniques and pace at which other devs code. Not surprisingly most thumbnails look like..... VSCode :)
- madamelic 8y ago>Not surprisingly most thumbnails look like..... VSCode :) I'd say 99% of my viewers always ask "Oh! Ubuntu!" and we chat about Linux or open-source till they leave. So yes, code streaming is heavily macOS and Windows (for good reason). Streaming software, specifically OBS, is way behind on Linux and is missing a key feature (VSTs) and has been for a year+, along with lots of other streaming software shrugging when asked for Linux support. Story of Linux, I guess, hah.
- davecraige 8y agoThis has been an amazing weekend. Pat, Armin and Melanie have done an awesome job getting this started. Feel free to follow along on Twitter under the hashtagg #24HRstartup https://twitter.com/hashtag/24hrstartup?src=hash https://twitter.com/hashtag/24hrstartup?src=hash
- davidkuennen 8y agoHeyo, I finished my project in 23 hours. In hindsight I really should have done more planning. Didn't know how I wanted to do this until the time was almost up haha. I used react, preact (for the first time ever in this project), go, graphql, postgres And here it is: https://feedby.io/ https://feedby.io/
- smakosh 8y agoHi Everyone, I'm Smakosh and I spent 24 hours coding my REST api, React app and a Gatsby site. Obviously this needs more improvements but here's a funny fact: -Rest API is deployed on Heroku for free -Db is on mlab for free -React app is deployed on Netlify for free -Gatsby site is deployed on Netlify for free -Design made with Adobe XD for free -Illustrations from Undraw.co for free Please slow down on my app hahaha, you know how Heroku crashes easily... BEAF - Share your Before/After pictures and get unbiased feedback from the people you love. Link: https://beaf-gatsby.netlify.com/ https://beaf-gatsby.netlify.com/
- smakosh 8y agoJust purchased a domain name! https://beafapp.com https://beafapp.com
- franciscop 8y agoCool project and design, kudos! For a couple of tips as someone who uses Heroku, mlab (mongolab), etc: - Something like https://cloudinary.com/ https://cloudinary.com/ can automatically compress those images. Will speed up the load and make the project shine even more, since it is loading now a 1390px image in a 320px space. - A redirect from the netlify.com to the main domain would also be a good idea.
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- QML 8y agoOh no, this is setting a bad precedent. If founders can launch a startup within 24 hours, then sometime soon a sadistic tech company will replace their coding challenges with making a startup. \s
- rorykoehler 8y agoThat would be great. 1: Apply for job 2: Get assigned 24 hour startup project 3: Create startup 4: Get funding...
- madamelic 8y agoProbably better in every respect to consider each product as its own mini-startup rather than having (slow) top-down control. Like Alphabet but on a smaller scale. Could be pretty great setup for a startup.
- Sleeping 8y agoHi guys, I've finished my run in ~13 hours. I've made an MVP Starter Kit https://21daysmvp.com/ https://21daysmvp.com/. That was a fun ride, but there's a lot of work ahead to make it a full-scale project. Time to go and get some sleep finally.
- bertjk 8y agoyou are getting a lot of "Image not authorized" on your starter kit page
- Sleeping 8y agoYeah, thanks for the update. Will fix today.
- jazzyjackson 8y agoI suppose your 1000 free impressions ran out on thum.io
- Sleeping 8y agoFixed, thanks for the feedback.
- anconia 8y agoGreat work!
- sonnyblarney 8y ago"Hey, I worked on a project for a few hours, give me funding" Please folks - we need new terminology. This initiative is all fine and good, but maybe we need new words, because these are not startups. This seems more to fit the term 'Hackathon' than anything. 'Microstartup'? 'Microproject' ? 'Microfab' ? 'Micro-op' ? Ok maybe not so great ... Something that communicates that it is authentic and innovative, but at the same time, that it's a small, maybe individual, project oriented effort. Someone on HN has the power to make these memes stick :)
- colordrops 8y agoOr just call them startups if that's what they are. If someone is starting a business selling something then it's a startup, no matter how small initially.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoI'm not sure I agree. What you're describing is 'business'. A startup is a company that's focused on something innovative and effectively high growth - something a VC could invest in. Nobody is referring to the new Taco restaurant down the street as a 'startup' even though their revenues will be more than $1 M this year. VC only makes sense in high growth businesses with large markets. Otherwise they are just businesses. And 'an afternoon of coding' isn't really even that either - it takes more effort just to do the proper incorporation. So these words I think have meaning. 'Project' as the commenter described is apt ... but I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of 'word' emerged that caught all the hype and was overused.
- PopeDotNinja 8y agoI've never seen a definition of a startup that I like. Here's my personal sniff test... To me, a business is an entity with paying customers. To me, a startup is an entity that wants paying customers before it has them, or has them now but once did not (and it remains a startup until people stop calling it that).
- pwaai 8y agoHustle porn is now live and real time!
- KaoruAoiShiho 8y agoCan someone explain what kind of exposure livestreaming like this brings? Is it actually beneficial, what are some success stories (eg something interesting happening due to the stream)?
- tmh88j 8y ago>Can someone explain what kind of exposure livestreaming like this brings? I don't think the goal is exposure for anything that's created, it's more of a live streaming hackathon. If creating a web app is a startup then I've founded more startups than I can even keep track of. The title is somewhat of a misnomer. Check out this comment from one of the team members who organized it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18476639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18476639
- bemmu 8y agoIt motivates you to make quick progress, as you have a clear deadline and potentially people looking over your shoulder.
- madamelic 8y ago>potentially people looking over your shoulder. It's good motivation to not slack off. You can't look at Reddit or get distracted by YouTube. :)
- chrisfrantz 8y agoI did this too. 5 hour stream, started with google docs, trello then figma before building. Lot of fun and having the camera rolling kept me focused instead of getting distracted by twitter or notifications. I decided to build something for nonprofits: https://lattesforchange.com https://lattesforchange.com I found a number of charities that directly equate an action (do x things for y people) with a dollar amount. I pulled together a list of the charitable actions and chose a base product that people were familiar with (the cost of a pumpkin spice latte). Then I sorted them by how many lattes you would have to skip to be able to donate to compelete the charitable action. It was a lot of fun and I hope to do something similar again.
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- nonamejane 8y agoThis is awesome. Is it only for today though?
- nonamejane 8y agoNot really sure why this was downvoted. The website is incredibly unclear as to whether it’s an ongoing thing or just a certain day/month/whatever. Sorry for daring to ask techbros a simple question.
- dorianm 8y agoI just watched a random Stream and was happy to see someone livestreaming Rails dev (I find it very hard to find). Then I realized he was localizing files, seems odd for 24h challenge.
- MetalGuru 8y agoI don’t say this often, but this is rad.
- achillean 8y agoNot a startup but I spent the past day making a place to share short command-line snippets: https://snippets.shodan.io https://snippets.shodan.io
- newman8r 8y agoHah at first I thought Shodan started hosting projects github-pages style, then realized you're the founder. Actually, hosted pages on Shodan would be kind of cool.
- achillean 8y agoHmm, haven't looked at doing that yet - any thoughts on what would make that appealing? It feels like a somewhat crowded space already.
- newman8r 8y agoI think it would be a nice place to host a collection of infosec-related materials, tutorials, white papers and write-ups. I'm not sure if there's a go-to place for the security community to host static pages for these types of things, but it seems like the kind of thing I'd enjoy browsing.
- heromyman 8y agoso this is like an online hackathon live streamed? Definitely cool concept, but calling it start up and them founders is a stretch isn't it?
- VirenM 8y agoI think this is a fantastic idea -- I hope the footage is getting archived for future viewers who can watch it at their pace -- 2/3x.