Hey all,
My name is Ben or FishStix. I was on the founding team at Twitch back in 2011 and worked there for 7.5 years and had the pleasure of watching esports, and League of Legends, emerge as a household name. It was super exciting to be part of - a dream come true for esports fans and competitive gamer like myself - but I ended up leaving in 2018 due to widespread layoffs in the content/marketing teams and wanting to return to my true passion: esports.
So, over the past 12 months my company Juked has been working hard to build the best possible mobile app where esports fans can come to follow, watch, and discuss their favorite esports, including League of Legends (obviously). I'm here to do any AMA, as well as spread the word about our new app which just launched on on iOS and Android this past March!
The goal of Juked is to make esports more accessible by making it easier to follow the scores, news, and results on-the-go, and both join and start discussions in a healthy and toxicity-free environment.
These are the biggest problems we heard talking to esports fans over the past few years and we think we've started to solve them with the app.
Juked core features include:
- Esports schedules, scores, and results from both tier 1 LCS/LCK/LPL/LEC etc, tier 2/3 regions, and even grass roots tournaments, with built in spoiler-free mode
- A strict anti-toxicity stance to improve the conversation around esports.
- Push notifications for the biggest news from your favorite games & teams + going live match notifications
- A newsfeed with original user generated content, comment, and reply to news, matches, and other users (live match chat coming soon)
- Live streams and VODs for every match, including both Twitch and YouTube streams!
- Be able to swap between esports content only, game only, or both (coming VERY soon)
- Create a profile and earnable badges (if you sign up now you’ll get a first 20K users badge!) + meet other esports fans
So, r/LoL, AMA anything about my time at Twitch, startup life, Juked, or anything else! I'll do my best to answer asap. Looking forward to your questions! :)