I'm Josh, a founder in Canada building two projects in public.

Looking to connect with:
- solo founders & indie hackers
- streamers
- open source contributors
- offline-first builders
- home finance nerds

Drop a 👋 and what you're working on. I'll reply to everyone.

YouTube boss update: step 3 of 6 on Google verification. Health bar's finally moving. Still no approved sign-in yet. Anyone else in this queue?

I'm Josh, a founder in Canada building faders.tv: free OBS plugin + browser extension so Twitch & YouTube(coming soon) viewers get their own voice/game/music mix.
Looking for streamers who show up every week. Drop a 👋, what you stream, and your days. I'll reply to everyone.

Shipped the code, then hit the real boss: Google's app verification. Potentially weeks before streamers can sign in with YouTube. Indie devs, how long did yours actually take?

Streamers who go live every week: what's the one OBS plugin or stream tool you'd be lost without? I build an OBS plugin myself and want to learn what people actually keep installed.

Experienced streamers! Let's connect! What's the one change that actually grew your stream? Not the generic advice, the thing that moved your numbers.

New month, fresh budget. If you've ever stuck with a budgeting app past month three, what made it stick?

Well I got threw most of Sunday rest without talking to AI 😆 must cook

Faders, 10 days after launch: 3,572 page views, 57 extension store clicks, 37 plugin download clicks, 2 outside streamers went live with it, 8.9 listener-hours, $0 revenue.
Small and real. Streamers, what would get you to try a new OBS plugin?

I had this idea about 10 years ago.
Watching a stream, I wanted to play my own game too, but couldn't turn down its music and game sound to hear mine.
2021: tried it as a Twitch extension. Shelved it.
Oct 20: shipped it as Faders.
What idea have you sat on the longest?

new feature vs cold outreach
where you at today?

outreach here today. A new feature only helps people who already found you. Talking to a few real users this week will tell me more than shipping another thing. Which way are you leaning?

It’s the little things you should celebrate. Also how did I or claude forget a downloads page lol

The Faders stack so far:
OBS plugin: C, taps audio
Audio: Opus, 500 ms chunks over WebSocket
Relay: @Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects, never decodes
Extension: plain @JavaScript
Auth: @supabase
Stats: @posthog
Billing: @RevenueCat + @stripe

What would you swap?

Also: the plugin already works on OBS 33, so updating OBS won't break it.

I just sat at the tire shop for the last hour shipping with @t3dotcodes. Pretty thrilled with the experience.

Banger news #6:
You know cold email would work for your B2B SaaS or Ecommerce.

You just haven’t started, because doing it right is boring as hell: lists, warmup, templates, sending limits, and one mistake puts your domain in spam.

Introducing:
Claude + Banger: cold email is now write to these 200 agencies and offer them a call.”

What happens next:

Is having a paid app on the mobile app stores detrimental these days? Is it okay for open source products?

Starting the week off strong with a feature release! Lets go! 🚀