Twitch Streamer Pee-In-A-Bottle

Shaan shares insights he gained from shadowing Twitch streamers to understand their needs better.

"I arranged with Twitch streamers to shadow them. I said, 'Hey, I would love to just shadow you. I'm building something that I think is going to help people like you, but I bet you've used software where you look at it and think, 'This person didn't understand what they were supposed to do.' I want to avoid that. Can I come and just hang out in the room while you stream for a couple hours?'

So I went and sat in their bedrooms, literally on the dude's bed because there's no other space in the room. I'm watching him do things, and I thought I knew what it was like, but then you see all the nuances.

For example, I saw that he literally is peeing in a bottle because he can't stand up or he'll lose viewers. I thought, maybe we could build a feature that would let him have a restroom break but would keep the viewers entertained. I would have never thought of that feature if I hadn't seen the guy peeing in a bottle under the desk.

There's just a whole bunch of things like that you cannot pick up unless you're there in the situation watching it all happen."