Streaming Open Source Development on Twitch — Part 1

My Streaming Motivation & Hardware Setup with Reviews

Cihat Gündüz
7 min readMar 31, 2022
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TL;DR

Motivation: Sharing with/Giving back to Community, Time Efficiency
Hardware Setup: Mac, Headset, Webcam, Green Screen, Mic, Light

Motivation

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Splitting my time as an Indie

It hasn’t even been three months since I started my journey as an Indie iOS Developer at the beginning of this year. During my very first week, I mostly used to plan for my first couple of months. One of the easier decisions I made that week was that I wanted to invest some portion of my work time in Open Source topics. After all, doing what I love was one of the reasons to go Indie in the first place. And I always enjoyed giving back to the great community that I had profited from for nearly a decade now as an iOS developer.

The tougher question was: How much of my time do I want to invest? While I’m sure that I will experiment with this more in the future, for a starting point I tend to either follow the 60–30–10 rule (borrowed from color…

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Cihat Gündüz
Cihat Gündüz

Written by Cihat Gündüz

📱Indie iOS Developer, 🎬Content Creator for 👨🏻‍💻Developers. Apps: RemafoX, Twoot it!. More in the works.