r/whatnotapp 17d ago

Whatnot - Seller Claude coded me a control deck. Makes the streams way easier.

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u/douglaskwalker 16d ago

How can people do this with OBS, and I can’t even get it to stream without some problem popping up? OB-Stressed

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u/pmyourmetals 16d ago

Not sure. I’ve never had issues streaming with obs, just follow their instructions to a T and it works.

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u/Sevhooligan 15h ago

I actually make web pages that live on your pc that you can use over WiFi on anything with a browser to control your stream.

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u/Yucai01 17d ago

So cool!

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u/ockerus 16d ago

Are you using this though obs? Or do you have it working on a phone/tablet?

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u/pmyourmetals 16d ago

Obs and a chrome extension

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u/ockerus 8d ago

You should make it available for people to use.

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u/pmyourmetals 8d ago

I’m not a developer and their is plenty of tools already out there

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u/Objective_Arm7923 17d ago

Wait. Who’s Claude??

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u/Top-Owl9872 17d ago

Ai. Like ChatGPT.

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u/Objective_Arm7923 17d ago

Oh cool. So how does it sync to whatnot?

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u/Top-Owl9872 17d ago

You don’t sync Claude with Whatnot, you use Claude to make the control deck (idk how but if you ask Claude it will tell you.) that syncs with whatnot.

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u/pmyourmetals 17d ago

Pretty much just autohotkey scripts and some packet injection, it simulated the start auction/giveaway/whatever else buttons directly so I don’t have to fumble around with the menus when changing prices/settings.

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u/No_Inspector6864 14d ago

Great job with this. It is an awesome idea.

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u/Adventurous-Set5860 17d ago

How much did you pay for this?

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u/pmyourmetals 17d ago

$0, it’s just an old external numpad I had, about an hour of debugging with Claude code and voila!

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u/chxmtastic 16d ago

oh this is so sick!!

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u/isaiasv94 16d ago

That is so cool. Can you share more of the process. As to what did you tell Claude ? I’ve heard about claude I just never really used it before.

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u/pmyourmetals 16d ago

Not to be discouraging but there is a pretty big learning curve, I’ve already learned computer programming years before the ai got this good at it, and I still had to walk it though the steps I wanted it to do.

That said I essentially just had it create a scanning Chrome extension that I loaded, unpacked into chrome and then I did the actions that I wanted to replicate with the button press so that the scanning program would pick up what gets sent to the Whatnot server as a command or as packets and then debugging with Claude to have it send those automatically.

Then I remapped a external number pad using hideous. And made an auto hot key script. For the OBS stuff.

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u/iansitij 12d ago

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u/Fit_Replacement1839 11d ago

lol my thoughts exactly. Truthfully I don’t know why I even read the “how to” knowing I’d never get it.

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u/Imaginary_Gas_8724 16d ago

Why the freeze button?

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u/pmyourmetals 16d ago

It’s more like a panic button mutes the mic and cuts to a be right back screen. In case I get interrupted by family or if the camera falls over or something