My Stream Watch
Alerts when your stream,turns black, freezes or goes silent.
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Hey everyone 👋 I'm Ashish, the maker of MyStreamWatch. I work on the streaming and CDN side of a live TV channel, and the outages that hurt us most were never the stream going offline. Those are easy to catch. The real problem was the stream staying "online" while the picture had gone black, frozen on a single frame, or lost its audio. Every uptime check said everything was fine, and we usually found out when a viewer called to tell us.
PH · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: webcam and video streaming utilities · 91 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- SaaS
- TV
- Streaming Services
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Could you build this?
Partial The alerting dashboard and notification plumbing are easy to build, but detecting black, frozen, or silent video requires media analysis that must run continuously and reliably on live streams.
What it would actually take: A real version runs ffmpeg or GStreamer workers that ingest HLS or RTMP streams and sample frames and audio levels. It flags black frames, frozen frames via perceptual hashing, and silence via audio analysis, then alerts through webhooks or email. The hard parts are low-latency, low-false-positive detection across many streams and the infrastructure to run it, which needs a media engineer who understands broadcast and CDN behavior.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 138 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.
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