[zcesur]

Creator of Algora here, thanks for sharing! This was a pleasant surprise :) I posted about our Elixir bounties yesterday on Reddit, and I was not expecting to see it on HN front page the next day.

I've been building this since early this year. Over the past few months, developers like Daniel Roe (Nuxt.com maintainer), Chris Griffing, Andras Bacsai (Coolify.io maintainer) have been livestreaming with Algora their coding sessions, office hours, product launches, podcasts, and more.

Algora TV supports free multistreaming to Twitch, X, YouTube, custom RTMPs [1] and aggregates live comments from these platforms.

I chose to build Algora in Elixir because of a few reasons: 1) Productivity gains from using Phoenix LiveView are unparalleled as a solo developer 2) OTP is super helpful for handling complex streaming pipelines. Things like multistreaming, mirroring chat messages, capturing thumbnails etc. can fail at any time, and OTP makes it easier to build fault-tolerant processes 3) BEAM clustering allows distributing the system across multiple nodes with ease, which helps reduce latency between streamers and viewers.

As the sole maintainer of the project, I'd love to get your help with improving Algora! If you're up for contributing, I've put up a bunch of bounties [2] to prioritize some issues.

In any case, I'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback or questions!

[1]: https://algora.tv/docs/streaming/multicast

[2]: https://algora.io/org/algora/bounties

[marshray]

Since you asked for feedback, the first two things I noticed were:

1. The license.

2. On the home page, everyone had the X logo by their name.

For me, personally, these things combined were enough to decide to not bookmark it.

[spartanatreyu]

Personally X logos are a red flag for me.

I either think they're:

1. Old accounts that haven't been updated in a long time

2. Bots or fake and generated accounts

3. Conspiracy nuts

[lakomen]

Documentation sucks. It doesn't explain what it is. Why open source Twitch? Introduction doesn't explain anything. Is it a Twitch competitor? Is it a restream competitor? ... annoying