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Suz Hinton - noopkat - streaming setup
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Recording software if difficult
- OBS
- StreamLabs OBS
- Quadlibet?
- Text source plugins that OBS reads
- StreamLabs has plugins for useful stuff
- Background music - YouTube playlist
- Use microphone audio filters
- Cheap dynamic mics on Amazon (better directional?)
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Other gear:
- Camera
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UI setup:
- How do you set up? use macros for switching
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Schedules:
- Regular schedule to build community
- Tweet when the schedule is known to raise awareness
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Building community
- Use Discord to continue community when offline
- Multiple stream topics can be consolidated into a single stream
- Let people know what topic you're focused on at a time
- Add to awesome streamer list at https://github.com/bnb/awesome-developer-streams
- Upload recordings to YouTube after a stream for watchers in other timezones
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Collaboration
- cs50 - take turns programming individual lines during the same stream
- weirdlings - different streamers share a single channel
- chat interaction is satisfying and makes a better experience
- chat just happens
- be prepared to talk to yourself because the chat may not be active
- talking to yourself is a skill
- UX designer getting feedback
- Google Hangouts to pair programm
- Coderpad, Google doc to share typing
- Multi-Twitch for doing collabs with other streamers
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Getting started
- How do you deal with the fear? It's ok to make mistakes.
- Offline research, explain to the stream
- Set expectations to chat
- How do you deal with trolls? Kick them out.
- Open links off screen. Don't make that mistake of open on screen.
- Check out what other streamers are doing and find something you like.
- Keep positive tone to help win over chatters.
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Increase social growth
- Raiding other streamers
- Socialize with other Twitch streamers
- Discord
- shipstreams.com
- Anthony @anthonywritescode (Twitch)
- Nick @NapsterInBlue - data science
- Martin @GoudaGames (Twitch) / @GoudaTheSwede - game dev, gaming
- Anurag
@_asaxena
(Twitter) - Logan @braindeaddev (Twitch)
- Kyle kylemulka.com
- Matt @mblayman (Twitch/Twitter)