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Scr0ols edited this page Jul 20, 2026 · 1 revision

Why StreamHive

The problem

Anyone who follows several Twitch streamers at once — because they're collaborating on the same event, or simply because a viewer wants to keep up with different creators in parallel — doesn't have a simple way to do it. Twitch's own "Stream Party" feature depends on the streamers configuring it themselves, and doesn't cover two completely independent creators streaming at the same time. The usual workaround is opening several browser tabs, or reaching for a third-party site with overlapping, confusing audio from every channel at once. Both push viewers away from content they'd otherwise want to follow together.

Goals

  1. Watch 2 to 6 Twitch streams at once, on one screen, with zero setup required from the streamers being watched.
  2. Put audio behavior under the viewer's deliberate control, never leave it to chance — pick one channel at a time (Selection) or hear every channel at once (Both/All), and save whichever one fits as a personal default so every new session starts the way that viewer actually wants.
  3. Keep Twitch's native features — chat, follow, donate, view profile — reachable from inside the grid, without forcing the viewer to leave the app to interact with a streamer.

Tip

Goal 2 is deliberately about control, not a fixed default. Which mode starts a new session is itself a saved preference (see Features & Audio Modes) — the point is that the viewer decided it, not that one specific mode is "the normal one."

Non-goals

StreamHive deliberately stays out of a few areas, at least for now:

  • No capturing, re-encoding, or redistributing stream video/audio. The app only orchestrates official Twitch embeds; it never touches the underlying media.
  • No other streaming platforms in v1 (YouTube Live, Kick, etc.) — kept out to keep scope small, may be revisited if there's real demand.
  • No monetization of the app itself and no handling of streamers' donations. Each panel's donate link goes straight to that streamer's own donation page; StreamHive never intermediates that money.
  • No native mobile app. The web app is responsive; a browser extension and native mobile are later-phase ideas, not v1 scope.

See Roadmap for how these map onto what's actually shipped versus still planned.

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