After two months of ideating, coding, debugging, and rewriting, it’s time to announce the winners of the Twitch Streamer Tools Hackathon for 2024! Thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in the hackathon. We hope all of you enjoyed the competition and that you’re proud of the tools you created for streamers and their communities. Third-party development is essential for communities on Twitch and every application (regardless of prizes) has the potential to benefit viewers and streamers. We’re glad to see all of the fun and creative ideas that help with collaboration, interaction, and stream appearance on Twitch.
We also want to thank our hackathon judges for providing their time to evaluate submissions! Our Twitch streamer judges were FiniteSingularity, TimeEnjoyed, and IrishJohnGames, and they were joined by our staff judges Jeremy Forrester (VP Community Products), Eric Cressey (Sr Product Manager, API Platform), and Mike Suzuki (Sr Product Manager, Monetization Experience).
While the winners of the hackathon are listed below, please make sure to browse the entire DevPost project gallery. As with every competition, there are more quality submissions than prizes to award. You can also look forward to a number of the submissions demonstrated on future TwitchDev broadcasts.
Without further delay, here are the category winners and runner ups for the Streamer Tools Hackathon for 2024.
Streamer-to-Streamer Collaboration Winner
Stream Together Timeline by Joe Oppegaard
“Stream Together Timeline keeps track of your Stream Together sessions, including the participants and any clips generated during these collaborations. It displays this information in a timeline that both the streamer and the community can access, offering a user-friendly way to look back at shared moments. The timeline can be viewed directly in a Twitch panel or through a dedicated, fully hosted webpage that can be shared with the community.”
Interactive Community Experiences Winner
PixelWars by Flavius Holerga
“PixelWars was sparked by a simple question: what gets people truly engaged? For many—including myself—the answer is crystal clear: competition. Drawing inspiration from Hype Trains and Subathons, I crafted a concept designed to ignite rivalry by putting two streamers’ audiences head-to-head in a battle of small proportions! In essence, PixelWars allows viewers to send animated characters tagged with their name to fight against the community of another streamer or against a custom tower selected by the streamer.”
Enhancing Stream Appearance Winner
tcghud by Dan Goodman and Alex Pickett
“tcghud is an experimental AI tool for streamers to provide a real-time heads-up-display of trading card pack openings on stream. It runs a custom-trained AI model right in the browser, trained on over 200k Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Magic: The Gathering cards to identify and track cards shown in the camera feed. It then ships a screenshot of the detected card to our API, and does a similarity search among those 200k cards in under 1 second. If found, it returns the results to the browser, and renders them in a drawer with the respective information (set, ungraded price, PSA 10 price, etc.). Streamers can login and use the provided overlay link to connect the HUD to their streaming software via a browser source.”
Runner Ups
In addition to the category winners above, we also had two runner-up submissions that the judges scored highly.
Spectators Control Minecraft Mobs by Y337 Hays
“This Minecraft mod allows Twitch streamers to let viewers control mobs/monsters in their game through [Bits] and/or subs (configurable), giving them mob-control for a limited time to interact with the streamer in real-time.”
Lights Out! by Jeroen van Baar, Joris Kok, Micha Blaauw, and JvanMensvoort
“Lights Out! is a gamified surprise! One moment, you’ll see everything on-screen. Another moment, it appears the lights are out. The screen has been entirely dimmed to black! A community member must have turned it off… Only your mouse illuminates a small area. Use it, and hurry! Find the switch!”
Most User Authentications
As a reminder, there are three bonus prizes available for any of the hackathons applications, whether you won a prize or not. We’ll be providing $6,000 each for the three applications that gain the most authorizations from release until February 25, 2025. We will follow up with these winners and update this announcement on or soon after the end date.
Thank You
Thank you once again to every developer who participated in the Streamer Tools Hackathon for 2024. We look forward to seeing the community experience your applications!
Please note that the winner selections will be made visible in the DevPost project gallery sometime this week.