There's hundreds of thousands of people that stream on Twitch. Most of them don't think they'll be the next great thing, but they also might not promote themsel

There's hundreds of thousands of people that stream on Twitch. Most of them don't think they'll be the next great thing, but they also might not promote themselves because it's just a hobby. So I'd argue that, most likely, you don't see the hobby work because if it's a hobby you won't dedicate several hours to promoting it. I had a hobby of hacking around in Hadoop to download SEC data and make visualizations showing the relationship of the language used in their filings to their Morningstar ratings. For example: The lowest 10% of rated companies referenced bankruptcy a lot. The 11-40% range or so (which basically means they did NOT performed well, but they were not the worst) actively avoided avoided saying the words more than any other group.. and bankruptcy curved back up as an more commonly used word in the top 70-100%, where companies did outstanding. This was a complete hack job (in my opinion) improperly using Hadoop's mechanics because it was an easy hook to distribute jobs. This was entirely for fun, and I even had nodes running on old laptops because I had them sitting around. Sure, I had thoughts if it had amazing revelations I might redo it properly, but I didn't advertise it or try to sell it. I had a friend at first with this project, but he eventually got a job at a mega company that worked him 60 hours a week and he didn't have time for the fun project anymore... And I eventually decided I needed a partner with those skills, but didn't know where to find one, and again, didn't want to go advertising my hobby and looking for someone. I also know several people at my workplace that have hobbies in with IoT'ing their house with custom arduinos and Pi's, and hooking them into custom databases and dashboards... Though my workplace has a (fairly) strict 40-hour/week limit, and our commutes are generally <15 minutes, so we have more free time then, for instance, when I worked for a private company in Northern Virginia, which worked 45-50 hours/week, and had another 10-15 hours of commute time/week