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>Every typical user still uses the same StreamLabs widgets and alerts for years without many new ones, and most of the streaming workflow improvements are upstr
by favaq 4y ago
>Every typical user still uses the same StreamLabs widgets and alerts for years without many new ones, and most of the streaming workflow improvements are upstream in OBS itself.
So what, if it works well enough, which it seems like it does? Can't we just leave things be?
- minimaxir 4y agoIt works, but could be a lot lot better and is not very user friendly, which would benefit Twitch's two-sided market. Unfortunately Twitch's current API is too locked-down/fussy to build a feasible alternative.
- Peter-Muxy 4y agoIt’s more than that; there is no room to innovate here for a startup. We were #2 to Streamlabs with ~40% market share by minutes watched @ Muxy in 2016-2017. However, there was no way to monetize without dark patterning viewers to subscribe to our platform when donating, which others did, but we refused to do. We have so many cool unreleased widgets for bits and streams that have been dormant because it’s not possible to monetize them. Twitch could fix this…
- favaq 4y agoThat's cool, "monetising" usually means making the experience of viewers worse, so good on Twitch