Back in 2020, my buddies and I were building a small website for ourselves as a sort of gaming community. We were a bit into streaming video games, even if that failed miserably since we averaged 0 viewers per stream. Particularly, we were still checking out the platforms available, and I had found out about Mixer (external link). It seemed like an interesting platform, even before one of the biggest Twitch streamers at the time had signed a contract with them which supposedly would've brought a lot of new customers to the platform. Needless to say, they killed off the platform. They were bought by Meta and are now Facebook Gaming (external link).
However, before that happened I had a plan to learn how to build component libraries for React and that's when the idea hit. I wanted to embed Mixer streams into our gaming website, and what better way to do it through my own embed library? So I decided to build it.
Sadly though, a few months later, the service was sunset forever, and I was left with my very first deprecated project.
RIP Mixer. 🕊️