Big News Folks!
Once upon a time, way back in 2017, I joined St33m, then PAL, then I built MSP Waves, trained dozens of show hosts and systems/operational staff, then parted ways with almost all of them, left PAL, left Waves in their competent hands, and started Steemstar Network, providing both the platform's two principle streaming systems over those years.
Then I left the chain for a couple years to pursue some career stuff and left SteemStar in still more capable hands (that also eventually wandered away from it) and I bought land and home in Costa Rica and semi-retired. So now I am back and I am busier than ever.
First I became a partner in the recently established @PolleNation Hive Witness with none other than @TheAlliance master himself, @EngineWitty, and then I re-launched my once dead, now alive, but still about the dead, Dead Followers Tools and the "When Lambo?" spot exchange calculator over the past few weeks.
But along the way since my return, many old friends on the chain from the days of lore, kept greeting me, welcoming me back and then following up with questions like "So SirCork, when new streaming platform? All our other ones shut down or left the chain and you built the very best ones that lasted the longest even after YOU left, they still ran on, but alas! No more, they've all gone away now!"
So I took those requests to heart, which was easy enough for me to do, because gosh I love me building some streaming platforms. Or at least if you know me and you know my history with my last couple streaming networks on the chain, then you know I love 'em, and maybe also hate them a little for sure. And that's the passion that brought me to today, doing it again, for you guys, because I can, and we need it, this place needs it, the community needs it, and well, we just need it, okay? For reasons.
So anyhow, I spent the last ten days or so grinding towards an MVP of such a platform as would surpass all the others before it, one that would be open to chain users, and not just elite broadcasters only allowed to do network shows by the grace of some community overlords, rather my vision is a new site that allows anyone on the chain to launch a stream and a show and ultimately, as I get more and more built, have more and more ways to publish and build an audience and a community of their channel and even maybe monetize their content in all sorts of new ways.
At the very least we can have some fun interacting with each other while having a shared listening and watching experience like we did with with the other now-defunct networks, back in the day. I know some of those streamers would love a new home and HiveStreams.Live can be a streaming home for everyone!
Now, with the background, outlook and plan sort of laid out for you, let's get on with the big reveal! Turn an eye to the future, and expect a ton of improvements, many already underway in development and in the pipeline for this next chapter of "SirCork Builds Streaming Platforms for the Hive Chain Community", let me get right on to introducing you to:
https://HiveStreams.Live!
Let's have a look around, right? We have your bright and dark modes and a ton of basic, early functionality ready for you to play with. Here's handful of screen shots to whet your appetite to go check it out at the link above soon!
Learn why Hive Blockchain Creators will love our platform
Live Streaming
Stream live to your audience in real-time! Communicate with your community! Our standards based service works with OBS and other popular streaming tools which are available online for free for PC, Mac and Mobile phones and tablets too! If it can send a stream via RTMP or play web based video, you can stream it or watch it on HiveStreams.live!
Live Chat
What would a live stream be without live audience interaction? Your audience can chat with you and each other in the live chat room right beside your stream video, right here on HiveStreams.Live! Chats require users to log in via Hive, so you can be sure of who is really who! You can also stop any pesky trolls from spamming your chat by banning them from the chat completely at your instant discretion. You can unban them later if you feel like they deserve it!
Hive/HBD Monetization Coming Soon!
We're implementing FULL Hive blockchain integration for HiveStreams.Live, including automated Hive 'going live right now!' announcement blog posts on chain, built in Hive/HBD direct streamer tipping transfers and monthly channel fan donation memberships via customizable 'Membership Tiers'. You can also use 3rd party services like restream.io to simultaneously restream your lives to HiveStreams AND multiple other platforms, or upload your post-show edited recordings to video sites like 3Speak, YouTube, Rumble and so on.
Post those recorded replays as Hive blog posts to monetize the content even more. Take on sponsors, make affiliate offers, sell your own products or services... Dream big! Monetizaton is up to your own creativity. The options are endless! We can't wait to see what you all come up with!
Freedom & Success
Everyone has an equal opportunity to be a success on HiveStreams.Live! All it takes to get started is a Hive Blockchain account. We provide the HiveStreams.Live<->Hive Blockchain software and streaming infrastructure and built in a few basic ways to use it to try and earn some Hive or HBD for your live streaming efforts, but the rest is completely up to YOU to decide how to best present your content to your audience.
The moment you get your first tip or channel supporting membership subscription from an engaged and happy audience member, or your first paying channel sponsor, is such a great moment to strive for and a sweet reward for your hard work on creating live stream experiences that your viewers love! See YOU in the streams, on HiveStreams.Live!
Our goal is to create a place for the Hive community to live stream their content, ideas, opinions, news, announcements, interests and anything else that someone might want to live stream about --- or watch!
So what's the Current Situation Report, SirCork?
We're very much a fledgling work under constant construction. The goal is to continuously improve and integrate more and more with the HIVE Blockchain directly as much as possible.
This initial publicly usable early alpha MVP test & preview release is subject to drastic change which could mean the loss of data.
PLEASE NOTE! For now, we are not storing streams for replay or VoD because that is insanely expensive and so we recommend that streamers record a local copy, edit it for brevity and post teaser and trailer clips on HiveStreams.Live to entice users to watch your live streams when you come on. We do limit that a bit for file size and quantity, but we are about streaming - not about yesterday's news. There's places for that, but we're not it.
We do provide a scheduling feature that you can customize in your HiveStreams.Live channel settings, to make that live-only approach a bit easier for your audience, or you can just pop on whenever you want and post to let folks know you're going live. We're working on that auto-launch-post as a highest priority anyway.
In our first official initial release we plan to have the concept of subscription tiers defined by the streamer channel account owner. You can make these Tiers mean anything you want and be any price you want in HBD per month, like Tier One: Private Discord Access 1 Hive per month, with 5 and 10% discounts for six and 12 month subs, Tier Two: Whatever you can dream up that people would pay monthly for, etc.
Understand that all of this is going to be paid for, and cashed out as HBD and handled on chain with recurring chain transactions. We intend to integrate 100% directly in Hive between authenticated HiveStreams.Live user's actual wallets for all transactions for subscriptions and directing tipping donations. All of this is being developed ASAP.
When we DO finally integrate an "upvote" or "like" system for streams and/or channel media, we are debating on using standard Hive curation upvoting like we use on posts, OR possibly just making a post on the chain for each live stream launched or video uploaded to handle curation "over here" on the blog UI platforms.
Another option we are considering is keeping likes as only and purely just genuine "likes" or "hearts", that are not actually stake based at all, allowing for more organic and human driven site sorting for top/trending/popular, etc type categories as opposed to popularity being purchasable for the highest stake.
With that option, we would then have real equal "voting" but also only channel monetization via tips, subscriptions, channel sponsors, etc, and thus not from on-chain or side-chain or any other kind of "curation rewards" for liking or upvoting. You could still post about it, and we intend to integrate an auto-post option for you anyway to publish your lives and videos when you put them up, so there would always be that curation system on those anyway at the blog sites.
All of this and more is to be determined and done as we go forward. For now, we are in very early alpha-test mode, everything is subject-to-change, so try it but your experience may vary, and we're just getting started here.
So far I have funded the servers, some software, and my days and nights of frenetic coding to get you this much of the system for your early sneak-peak trials and feedback. I have a HUGE list of work ahead to make it do more, and so far, I am self funded on that. No proposal for this streaming site, at least not now, not yet, maybe someday but so far, I got this for now. The big trick is not trying to save video and serve it as replays. Record your thing locally, put it on something free like YouTube or elsewhere that embeds nicely in players on the blog sites and use us as your integrated Hive user based and Hive/HBD integrated live streaming hub. I'd be flattered, honored and thrilled if you do and as the movie quote goes, "it'd be a lot cooler if ya did!"
I appreciate your patience while I make this thing as awesome as possible, for as many people as possible, as fast as possible.
Thanks for streaming & watching with HiveStreams.Live!
See you in the streams!
@SirCork
Founder & Developer: @HiveStreams
Co-Founder: @YouAreHOPE
Partner @PolleNation Hive Witness
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