Show HN: Founders launching startups on Twitch

Heya!<p>I’m Armin, part of the team behind the 24 Hour Startup Challenge!<p>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.<p>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.<p>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 :)<p>A few products being built right now:<p>* Heartbeat Canvas - Generate art from your heartbeat<p>* Privacy First Products - A curated list where you can discuss privacy first products<p>* EpilepsyBlocker - Disable GIFs that may cause epilepsy<p>Let us know what you think!<p>Armin (&amp; Melanie &amp; Pat)

I did this too. 5 hour stream, started with google docs, trello then figma before building. Lot of fun and having the camera rolling kept me focused instead of getting distracted by twitter or notifications.<p>I decided to build something for nonprofits:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lattesforchange.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lattesforchange.com</a><p>I found a number of charities that directly equate an action (do x things for y people) with a dollar amount. I pulled together a list of the charitable actions and chose a base product that people were familiar with (the cost of a pumpkin spice latte). Then I sorted them by how many lattes you would have to skip to be able to donate to compelete the charitable action.<p>It was a lot of fun and I hope to do something similar again.

Hi Everyone, I&#x27;m Smakosh and I spent 24 hours coding my REST api, React app and a Gatsby site. Obviously this needs more improvements but here&#x27;s a funny fact:<p>-Rest API is deployed on Heroku for free -Db is on mlab for free -React app is deployed on Netlify for free -Gatsby site is deployed on Netlify for free -Design made with Adobe XD for free -Illustrations from Undraw.co for free<p>Please slow down on my app hahaha, you know how Heroku crashes easily...<p>BEAF - Share your Before&#x2F;After pictures and get unbiased feedback from the people you love.<p>Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beaf-gatsby.netlify.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beaf-gatsby.netlify.com&#x2F;</a>

Oh no, this is setting a bad precedent. If founders can launch a startup within 24 hours, then sometime soon a sadistic tech company will replace their coding challenges with making a startup. \s

This is so cool. More than the startups themselves, I&#x27;m more interested in the dev tools&#x2F;techniques and pace at which other devs code.<p>Not surprisingly most thumbnails look like..... VSCode :)

so this is like an online hackathon live streamed? Definitely cool concept, but calling it start up and them founders is a stretch isn&#x27;t it?

I just watched a random Stream and was happy to see someone livestreaming Rails dev (I find it very hard to find).<p>Then I realized he was localizing files, seems odd for 24h challenge.

Hey All, just finished my 24hours working on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moovoo.space&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moovoo.space&#x2F;</a> you can find the whole experience here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;czioutas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;czioutas&#x2F;</a><p>The idea is to make a TV online but with content from indie film-makers, free movies (public content) etc without making the user pay!

Hi guys, I&#x27;ve finished my run in ~13 hours. I&#x27;ve made an MVP Starter Kit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;21daysmvp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;21daysmvp.com&#x2F;</a>. That was a fun ride, but there&#x27;s a lot of work ahead to make it a full-scale project. Time to go and get some sleep finally.

This has been an amazing weekend. Pat, Armin and Melanie have done an awesome job getting this started.<p>Feel free to follow along on Twitter under the hashtagg #24HRstartup<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hashtag&#x2F;24hrstartup?src=hash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;hashtag&#x2F;24hrstartup?src=hash</a>

Heyo, I finished my project in 23 hours. In hindsight I really should have done more planning. Didn&#x27;t know how I wanted to do this until the time was almost up haha. I used react, preact (for the first time ever in this project), go, graphql, postgres<p>And here it is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedby.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedby.io&#x2F;</a>

Can someone explain what kind of exposure livestreaming like this brings? Is it actually beneficial, what are some success stories (eg something interesting happening due to the stream)?

Not a startup but I spent the past day making a place to share short command-line snippets:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snippets.shodan.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snippets.shodan.io</a>

I think this is a fantastic idea -- I hope the footage is getting archived for future viewers who can watch it at their pace -- 2&#x2F;3x.

This is awesome. Is it only for today though?

Great work!

I don’t say this often, but this is rad.

&quot;Hey, I worked on a project for a few hours, give me funding&quot;<p>Please folks - we need new terminology.<p>This initiative is all fine and good, but maybe we need new words, because these are not startups.<p>This seems more to fit the term &#x27;Hackathon&#x27; than anything.<p>&#x27;Microstartup&#x27;?<p>&#x27;Microproject&#x27; ?<p>&#x27;Microfab&#x27; ?<p>&#x27;Micro-op&#x27; ?<p>Ok maybe not so great ...<p>Something that communicates that it is authentic and innovative, but at the same time, that it&#x27;s a small, maybe individual, project oriented effort.<p>Someone on HN has the power to make these memes stick :)

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