IoT Software + Hardware for creating markers live while recording/streaming video

[sneakycrow]

I was watching a stream the other day and the streamer was marking a topic discussion using Twitch highlight markers. Presumably, off of verbal context, he was doing it to cut that part of the stream for later use in an offline video.

I've encountered similar issues before regarding trying to save points in your stream. I think, given that streamers are commonly playing video games or doing something on their screen, a sole software solution could work, but a hardware + software solution might be nicer.

As my fellow keyboard enthusiasts may be familiar, there's testers you can make for trying out different switches. Visually, imagine a keyboard but its just 4 normal sized keys.
I'm thinking that we can print some caps that can be 4 separate colors. So keyboard, 4 keys, each key a different color.
Then, we'll include a native binary and host a website (it can function with both so we don't require users to download native binaries and clutter their systems) that the 4-key keyboard can interact with.

At a very basic level, all these keys will do is record when they themselves are pressed. Then, the software can utilize those keypresses, match them against a start time/stop time (optional), and provide a list of markers for a video editor. This essentially let's the Streamer live mark points in the stream by simply hitting a button.

In theory, I think this could save hours of scrubbing through vods for a large portion of streamers.