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Heya! 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

Heya! 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 ago
Hi 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 ago
Thanks 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 ago
  Seems 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 ago
Twitch 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 ago
Could the mods please fix the title? “Tens of developers building web apps on Twitch right now”
shafyy 8y ago
Cool. However, stop calling it startups. They're launching apps/products, not startups.
- jonathankoren 8y ago
  Strong agree. It’s hard to understand how you would build a sustainable business around any of the products listed in this thread.
- codingdave 8y ago
  To 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.
  - fouc 8y ago
    If it is live on a public url, then it is "launched", so they are launching apps/products. Deploy to production = launch
  - mygo 8y ago
    I would agree that there is more to a business than a product but what actually qualifies as a launch?
- richrichardsson 8y ago
  What is a startup anyway? The term is stupid and overused imo.
  - newman8r 8y ago
    A 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 ago
Awesome 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 ago
  No, you will need a email address to log in.
  - edoceo 8y ago
    Why login to view a list?
    - keithnz 8y ago
      I 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 ago
      You don't need to login to view the list. That would be silly.
  - imglorp 8y ago
    Good 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 ago
I 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 ago
Really 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.

seapunk 8y ago

Hi 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 ago

Thanks 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 ago
Seems 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 ago

Twitch 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 ago

Could the mods please fix the title? “Tens of developers building web apps on Twitch right now”

shafyy 8y ago

Cool. However, stop calling it startups. They're launching apps/products, not startups.

jonathankoren 8y ago
Strong agree. It’s hard to understand how you would build a sustainable business around any of the products listed in this thread.
codingdave 8y ago
To 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.
- fouc 8y ago
  If it is live on a public url, then it is "launched", so they are launching apps/products. Deploy to production = launch
- mygo 8y ago
  I would agree that there is more to a business than a product but what actually qualifies as a launch?
richrichardsson 8y ago
What is a startup anyway? The term is stupid and overused imo.
- newman8r 8y ago
  A 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 ago

Awesome 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 ago
No, you will need a email address to log in.
- edoceo 8y ago
  Why login to view a list?
  - keithnz 8y ago
    I 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 ago
    You don't need to login to view the list. That would be silly.
- imglorp 8y ago
  Good 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 ago

I 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 ago

Really 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.