Content Creators

Tools to Make your Live Streams Cool

Live Streams Webcam:

This is one of the most important tools to consider with your live streams on Livecoding.tv. It does not only bring your audience close to you but it makes your session a more interactive one. Like one on one discussion with the audience.

Webcam live streams

Mic:

Without a microphone live streams could be really boring and less interesting. No one wants to watch a video without audio so definitely even live streams could be affected by this.

Chatbot:

This is another cool tool no streams should be without. Chatbots are like toys you give to your audience to play with for entertainment purposes, because everyone loves it especially if they can interact with it. See here.

Iframes and Text:

Having an attractive frame and text content on your streams can be useful and really cool. The Banner could be related to your channel, personal image, logo or even your current/past projects. You also need to make sure you don’t add too many images as it occupies too much space.

Pastebin:

Pastebin is for sharing code with your viewers.

Follower’s Notification for Livecoding.tv:

This is a notification for channel followers written by Dyerrington for Livecoding.tv. It pops open a notification on the configured streaming display when you get a new follower and plays a random sound from a list of sound files in a directory. See here.

Transparent Chat:

Badges are used like iframes for the purpose of creating overlays.

Use a transparent badge so the chat on the screen has a transparent background.

Keycastr:

KeyCastr: Shows pressed key on screen.

Download KeyCastr for Mac.

Display PC Information:

It displays your PC info like Ram usage, CPU usage, upload and download speed. See here.

Essential Now Playing:

OBS Tool is to display track information on the most popular desktop players and web apps.

InfoWriter 0.2:

OBS Tool that logs timestamps during the current stream/recording when pressing a hotkey. See here.

Free Stream Notifications:

Live notifications for Twitch, PayPal, and Patreon.

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I, Dr. Michael J. Garbade is the co-founder of the Education Ecosystem (aka LiveEdu), ex-Amazon, GE, Rebate Networks, Y-combinator. Python, Django, and DevOps Engineer. Serial Entrepreneur. Experienced in raising venture funding. I speak English and German as mother tongues. I have a Masters in Business Administration and Physics, and a Ph.D. in Venture Capital Financing. Currently, I am the Project Lead on the community project -Nationalcoronalvirus Hotline I write subject matter expert technical and business articles in leading blogs like Opensource.com, Dzone.com, Cybrary, Businessinsider, Entrepreneur.com, TechinAsia, Coindesk, and Cointelegraph. I am a frequent speaker and panelist at tech and blockchain conferences around the globe. I serve as a start-up mentor at Axel Springer Accelerator, NY Edtech Accelerator, Seedstars, and Learnlaunch Accelerator. I love hackathons and often serve as a technical judge on hackathon panels.