I am excited to share the project I have been working on for the last nine months called React.tv.
The original problem I was attempting to solve is "Ethical React Content" on the internet. If you are confused, react content is when a content creator watches media and puts their image and commentary over the media being watched. The current solution to these reaction videos is good faith attribution, where the content creator puts a link to the video being watched in their description in hopes that the audience will click it. This is not ideal, and when done on a livestream with hundreds to thousands in the audience it can remove a large chunk of potential views.
React.tv solves this by allowing you to place your livestream side-by-side with the content being watched. It uses embeds which are synced for everyone watching, meaning that the audience views are funneled back to all the sources being watched.
After several iterations I noticed that a simple watch party system wasn't enough. Traditional watch parties get stale very quickly and force you to keep manually adding content. I wanted the ability for people to find content to react to but also maintain a level of passive consumption. That started with adding playlists from YouTube to the watch party, but those lists became gigantic and hard to navigate.
That's where the idea for user-curated, scheduled TV channels came from.
Create always on TV Channels of content from YouTube and Twitch, up to two weeks at a time. Sync existing YouTube playlists and assign them to time slots which carry over their playback history between days - just like TV channels do. Just like our watch parties, your always on TV channel can swap modes to a watch party with your reaction at any time.
Oh, and all the features you would expect from watch parties of the past are here too such as Requests, voting, and feature rich chat.
Future plans include React VODS where you can watch past reacts, and a streamer guard to avoid TOS infractions.
Thanks for checking it out.