The Toolset

Short page. You've read the guide. I've built some tools over the years and they're free. Use them if they help.

They live at toolset.deutschmark.online. Most features work without an account; an optional account lets you save configs. Source is on my GitHub.

What's actually in it right now (the surface changes as I build):

  • Music tools for clipping short Spotify bits into overlays and shorts
  • A widget configurator for the public stream widgets (now-playing, chat overlays, that kind of thing)
  • OBS browser-source URLs for 3D titles, Spotify widgets, ending scenes
  • Config for my chat bot if you end up running it on your own stream

I add things when they're useful to me and probably useful to someone else. Some ideas ship. Some don't. That's the whole roadmap.

What it isn't

No paid tier. No email gate. No affiliate links. No AI content generators. If I ever add any of those I've sold out and you should stop reading my stuff.

Why free

I make my living from streaming and software work, not from selling tools to streamers. Charging five bucks a month from someone just starting out would be bad for them and barely matter to me — the math never made sense.

If the toolset helps and you want to support it, subscribe to the stream. That's the whole ask.

Special thanks

To a1exzandra for proofreading.

Citations

Sources used or referenced across the guide.

Platform documentation

  1. Twitch. Joining the Affiliate Program. Twitch Help.
  2. Twitch. Creator Camp.
  3. Twitch. Creator Camp — Collaborating.
  4. Twitch. Creator Camp — Copyrights & Your Channel.
  5. Twitch. Creator Camp — Assembling Your Support Squad.
  6. Twitch. An Update to Several Streamer Payout Programs. Twitch Blog, January 2024.
  7. YouTube. Partner Earnings Overview. YouTube Help.
  8. Kick. Partner Program.

Journalism and industry reporting

  1. Wall Street Journal. Twitch Streamer Pay Leak. 2021.
  2. Tubefilter. Shorts now make more money for YouTube than long-form. October 2025.
  3. Harrell, E. How 1% Performance Improvements Led to Olympic Gold. Harvard Business Review, October 2015.

Peer-reviewed research

  1. Uttarapong, J., Cai, J., & Wohn, D. Y. Harassment Experiences of Women and LGBTQ Live Streamers. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021.
  2. Sexualized culture on livestreaming platforms: a content analysis of Twitch.tv. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024.
  3. Hu, M., Zhang, M., & Wang, Y. The one-and-a-half sided parasocial relationship: The curious case of live streaming. Telematics and Informatics Reports, 2021.
  4. Lally, P., van Jaarsveld, C. H. M., Potts, H. W. W., & Wardle, J. How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world. European Journal of Social Psychology, 2010.

Public-interest organizations and government data

  1. Anti-Defamation League. Hate is No Game: Hate and Harassment in Online Games 2023.
  2. U.S. Census Bureau. Income in the United States: 2021.
  3. Internet Crime Complaint Center (FBI). IC3.

Industry analysis and tools

  1. TwitchTracker. Statistics.
  2. nobody.live. Twitch streams with zero viewers.