I'm a small streamer, yeah, most of us are... But how do you guys know what to focus youe energy on? I'm probably not being the smartest by streaming, video editting, posting clips, and doing art commissions. How do I find a balance? That way I won'tbe burnt out. See what will get the most attention and stick to a couple options.

What are you guys reccommendations before I go too far and give up QwQ ?

Hey everyone,

I recently got laid off from my job as a software engineer (DAMN YOU AI OVERLORDS) and decided to give streaming a shot. However, I realized I really didn't like the streaming tools currently available on the market, the flexibility was just too poor for my taste.

What started as a personal project quickly shifted when a few friends watching my stream told me the tool had serious potential to help other creators. I ended up pausing my own stream entirely to focus on building this out full time.

What does the tool do?

The main goal is to give viewers massive control over the stream interaction while keeping implementation incredibly simple for the streamer (just a standard browser source URL).

For Viewers:

• Live Doodles: Viewers can draw on-screen doodles that appear instantly.
• Audio/Video Clips: Send voice clips or quick recordings directly to the stream.
• Engagement: Built-in voting, betting, and interactive games to keep the chat entertained when the streamer takes a quick break.

For Streamers:

• Zero-Fuss Setup: Fully automated live chat, alerts, polls, events, and even music selection.
• Instant Multi-Cam: Connect your phone camera to the stream with a single tap.
• Post-Stream Insights: Built-in analytics to see how your broadcast performed.

Why I need your help

Because I'm a tiny streamer myself, I can't thoroughly stress-test the platform alone. I want to ensure everything is stable and works perfectly under real streaming conditions.

I'm looking for a small, tight-knit group of creators to test it out, break things, and give honest feedback. The platform is completely free to use (and the core features will always remain free, even if I eventually introduce a premium tier to support development down the road).

If you need any help getting things running or would prefer a quick 1-on-1 onboarding session with me, please don't hesitate to reach out right here on Reddit! You can shoot me a DM or leave a comment, and I'd be more than happy to walk you through it.

I'll put the link to the platform (Streamer Garden the site is streamer.garden) and our Discord channel for feedback and support in the comments below!

Thanks so much for reading, and I'd love to hear your thoughts or answer any questions!

Hello everyone!

Im wondering if this would be cool idea for a whole "streaming". I have chill health issues where when playing im randomly fall a sleepy which look like im just fall asleep or keep waking up "fighting" the dream state; would this be good idea to stream in "sleeping" category ?

So, I hit affiliate about a month ago but I haven't really seen any growth since then. I have about 4 or 5 viewers watching during the lives usually, 3 of which consistently talk in chats. And while I love the interaction with them, I'd love to see more people joining. I rarely see people come in to check out the stream, but on the rare occasion that they do there are some that stay/follow. So I feel like the main issue is not having people coming in (though I could be wrong).

About me and my stream: I'm a chronically ill streamer (I'm very open about this with my community), so I typically only stream for about 2-2.5 hours at a time so I don't crash afterwards (when I game at least, for co-working I can do like 4 hours, but I don't do that as consistently). I do have a consistent stream schedule, and I am active in other communities on Twitch. (I don't really advertise in them unless there's a self-promo channel on discord or the streamer talks about my streaming for some reason.) I do a variety of cozy gaming 3 days a week, and one of those days is usually focused on exploring an indie game or less well known game.

I used to do some video editing, but with my fatigue issues, it's hard to find the energy to clip down videos for posting on other platforms. I do cross post the full videos to YouTube, though I've been less consistent with actually making them public (as I keep thinking I'll edit them down and end up not). I do post schedule and live notifications some other places, but obviously not clips because I don't have them. I've looked into some of the things that do automatic clipping but so far they've either been too expensive to use consistently or they don't work well with cozy streaming.

So do y'all have tips for lower energy ways to get more people in to check out the stream?

I recently invested some money in promoting two videos of mine via youtube (different purposes, different markets). Just a small amount to test it out (buying a new game on sale would be more expensive), and it actually worked decently well (by my standards which thought there would truly be no change). However so many of the comments I have been getting is people talking about how it was an ad and people complaining in the comments (even in other videos that were not the promoted ones) that it keeps being shown to them (don't exactly have control over that). I have people coming into my chat talking about how I ran an ad and even my own community posting screenshots in my discord being like "Your ad reached the right audience". Just makes it feel like all people care about is that fact I had the audacity to run a paid promotion for my own channel.

Idk if I am over thinking it or if this is the first step on the road to thicker skin but just the whole situation has just left me feeling guilty and like I am some kind of fraud for doing this? Is this all in my head or was running a promotion actually too presumptuous of me as a small streamer?

What do you feel is better as a viewer:

1. 1.5 mins of ads every 30 mins

2. 3mins of ads every 60 mins

I dont want pre-rolls, I know people hate them but what is the right ad balance for midrolls?

I dont pause my gameplay and am currently playing darksouls if that helps for any context. Average 2-5 viewers so the revenue is a non factor here.

Hey guys, I run an indie game called Fantasy President that has been played by Drew Durnil, Tom Bilyou and others!

The game’s community of over 100k players is crying out for content but they don’t have enough!

I am looking for streamers to stream the game, in return you’ll get a free subscription, a $25 hourly rate and promotion on our subreddit, discord, and twitter

If this sounds of interest to you then please drop me a message!

Experience in game streaming preferred but not necessary, mainly looking for enthusiasm! Thanks!

I been finding it difficult streaming with friends who dont stream as they dont get it, want to find a group to stream and play games with been playing Sand, Rust, Tarkov, League, GTA FIVE M, but down to try any other games HMU 26 EU

I've received many comments about adding emojis to my streams. I've had many people reach out to me about making me some I'm just trying to not get scammed. Should i be commissioning someone to make emojis? How much do 15 emojis cost? animated or not? so many decisions and not enough people to ask

I started making TikToks and YT Shorts, and I tried dual streaming to TikTok and got denied for TikTok Live. I’ve been streaming to myself for about a week too

Hi there!

Im a small streamer whos started 3 months ago. I stream on tt and twitch. The past few days ive tried to create costum alerts for twitch but I just dont get it haha. My main content is minecraft. I wanted to have different minecraft aspects turned into alerts.

Ive looked on fiverr but the people ive seen there dont show something similar to what I want (mostly moving avatars, chibis etc). So my question is, how do I create costum alerts. 1 alert I wanna have is when people raid me, I want a netherportal where the username of the person raiding me comes out of. Ive tried canva but I just dont know how to create it and make it look good.

Any tips? :)

Just wanna say that I salute you all that can find plenty of time to make content. I very rarely have time to do anything at home. 35 year old male with a wife and 2 teenagers. There's no spare room in the house so I'm forced to have my setup in the living room. It's like a mad house here lmao. I tell myself I'm gonna wake up earlier to make content, someone is always up. I try to stay up, that doesn't work either. Everyone's either walking back and forth or talking loud all day and night. This is mostly in the summer time because the kids are out and the wife doesn't have to work in the summer. During the regular months, I make most of my content at night. Luckily, the weekends are good. I live stream and make shorts all weekend and plan releases throughout the week. I really hate the summer break because it pretty much kills my plans of nightly streams.

Okay, so far I have only streamed with friends, because I thought I could always fall back on them so it wouldn't be me playing a game for x hours in silences with only bots in my chat, but now I have trouble making time with my friends and I might have to decide if I can stream something solo. It's so damned intimidating, does anyone else feel like this? How do you get over that anxiety that you might have to be alone in your stream, but still trying to be entertaining if *someone* shows up? Am I overthinking it?

I finally sat down and set my accounts up. Well, now I'm not sure how to kickstart them. I've got a tiktok and twitch. My original plan was to post clips one TT and see where they go, but now I'm overthinking how I should go about that. I play mainstream games like Rivals, Overwatch, DbD, Warframe, and occasionally I'll boot up The Outlast Trials. My main thing is going to be Marvel Rivals, but I'm not sure if my choice of doing clips first would be good for me. Should I just begin a simple stream and see what happens?

I'm a variety streamer, I play a large collection of games ranging from old to new. I do art streams, game dev streams, cosplay streams, model making streams. 3D modeling streams. I do a lot of different stuff.

I see a lot of other streamers usually stick to playing one main game for their channel and only occasionally playing others.

I've heard that the problem with doing variety content is that if you attract lets say a Skyrim viewer in a skyrim stream, but the very next day you're playing minecraft hardcore, then they won't stick around because they thought you were a skyrim player.

Did I need to dial my variety down? Or is there a way I can clearly signal to viewers "Hey I do a lot of random stuff sometimes."

Hi everyone, I know clipping is one of the key things to do for growth, or atleast everyone says so, and I’ve been uploading clips since I started streaming 2 months ago but I’m seeing zero follow through from my TikTok clips to my twitch streams, despite each video getting roughly 700 views on average, so is there any tips anyone has for how I can optimise the clips to encourage follow through to twitch? Thanks for the help!

Hello Everyone

I'm looking for editor to edit mostly shorts/reels/tiktoks and to time to time longer videos around 10 min.

But i'm completly new to it i've never hire anyone i do not have a bussines registered (to low incomes)

How it should be payed? Per video, minute or something else?

What's most popular way to use to pay for editor (in EU - where i came from)

Also if you already see that we can talk about it also on discord or priv messages or here if you're looking for little extra job.

                                      !!! BIG EDIT !!!!

I'm mainly looking for simple edits, preferably with subtitles, similar to the style on my channel. My content is mainly stream-based, and my goal is to turn the best moments from my streams into engaging clips/shorts, as this will be my main way of reaching a wider audience.

EXAMPLES I'M TALKING ABOUT WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO GET ON PV MESSAGES. I DO NOT WANT TO SELF PROMO UNDER HELP POSTS

Best Regards

Spekovsky

My Specs:
RTX 4070 Super
32 GB DDR4
Ryzen 9 5900x

My internet is also a stable 100 MBS upload/download speed. I've tried EVERYTHING. My game settings are as low as they can get and my OBS encoder settings are:

NVIDIA NVENCH H.264

Constant Bitrate

6000 KBps

Keyframe Interval = 0

Tuning: High Quality

Multipass: Full Resolution

Profile: high

Look Ahead and Adaptive Quantization OFF

0 B-Frames

For other troubleshooting I've disabled GPU Acceleration on my browser and PC and steam, I have the bare minimum applications open to stream only the game, spotify, OBS, Wave Link for my audio, and my camera (which is also on low settings). My OBS scene has 8 sources. I set my game's priority to high through task manager, and I play it full screen.

I feel like I'm going crazy, I have no idea why this is happening. I really want to be able to stream fps games, but I just can't play at 60 fps. I'm at the point where I'm about to get an audio interface and capture card and just offload all my streaming software onto my old PC so that my game performance doesn't take a hit, but I really don't want to throw more money into solving this when my PC should be able to handle this on its own.

Hello, so I just finished my second stream. I’m wondering how do I get my name out there to get more followers/engagement? I think I have a pretty good setup on OBS and I stream Overwatch mainly